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Vadim Kotelnikov

Differentiation Strategies

STAND OUT from your competition

Vadim Kotelnikov, founder of 1000ventures - personal logo VadiK

Inventor Business e-Coach

Author Innoball

Founder Innompic Games icon

 

   

Differentiation is about setting your company, product, or service apart. It distinguishes your brand from all others.

 

 

 

 

Your differentiation strategy is an integrated set of action designed to produce or deliver goods or services that customers perceive as being different in ways that are important to them.

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Your differentiation calls for you to sell nonstandardized products to customers with unique needs.

This strategy is a synergistic set of actions designed to produce or deliver products that customers perceive as being valuably different.

 

Examples of Differentiation

Innompic Games

Canon

 

 

   

Two Target Audiences of Your Differentiation Strategy

① You and Your Team ② Your Prospects

Both you and your prospects must be clear about how the value you create is remarkably different.

 

 

 

 

Competitive differentiation – the ways a business differentiates itself from its competition within a highly competitive market – can take many forms.

A famous example is Avis' slogan 'We try harder'.

Outstanding customer service can also be a powerful differentiator.

  Love for Customers differentiation strategy quotes VadiK

 

   

"Don't forget that your product or service is not differentiated until the customer understands the difference." ~ Tom Peters

 

 

 

 

   

Coaching by Example

 

 

 

Vadim Kotelnikov

KoRe e-Coach
differentiated from formal education

Vadim Kotelnikov, founder of 1000ventures - personal logo VadiK

Inventor Business e-Coach

Author Innoball

Founder Innompic Games icon

 

 

The slogan

'I don't teach, I inspire!'

differentiates my
e-Coach
you are reading now from formal education

  Thank You messages from users of KoRe e-Coach created by VadiK

 

 

 

Olympic Games were invented in Greece 2,800 years ago when the world was ruled by athletic warriors.

Something has changed since then.

Today's world is driven by creative entrepreneurs.

Innompic Games are new Games for the new world.

  New World New Games Innompic vs Olympic mind vs. body civilizational breakthrough

 

 

This is how our two-dimensional social networks – Innompics and Fun4Biz – that help people both grow and socialize are differentiated from traditional social networks that help people socialize only.

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Differentiation as Step 1 in Building Your Brand

Differentiation – distinguishing your brand from all others – is about the life and death of your brand. It is how your brand is born and how it may die if differentiation declines.

 

Strategic Brand Management

STAND OUT

Brand Appeal of Innompic Games

 

 

 

Vadim Kotelnikov

Just being excellent is not enough. You must also be remarkable and rememberable.

Vadim Kotelnikov, founder of 1000ventures - personal logo VadiK

Inventor Business e-Coach

Author Innoball

Founder Innompic Games icon

 

 

 

 

Create a Niche for Your Business

To compete with other businesses nowadays you need something unique that nobody else can copy. You must create a niche for your business. A niche is something that makes your business and brand different from your competitors and positions them prominently... More

 

Strategy

Corporate

Market Leader

Positioning

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Vadim Kotelnikov

Keep learning forward for if you strop learning, you stop creating history and become history.

Vadim Kotelnikov, founder of 1000ventures - personal logo VadiK

Inventor Business e-Coach

Author Innoball

Founder Innompic Games icon

 

 

 

 

  

Surprise To Win  

 

2 Basic Ways to Compete and Prosper in Any Market

  1. To have a strong differentiation strategy

  2. To be a low-cost producer

If you aren't different, you must have low prices.
If you have high prices, you must be different!

BE MAD

Your Logo should be:

  1. simple

  2. distinctive

  3. intuitive  >>>

Design Insights

Logo of e-Coach

Logo of Innompic Games

My personal logo

 

Differentiation Strategy and a Coherent Marketing Direction5

4 Steps of Development of a Differentiation Strategy

Differentiating With Different Types of People

10 Commandments of Positioning

Depositioning a Competitor

Examples

Innompic Peace Prize positioned

Noble vs. Nobel Peace Prize

Brand Management

Advantages of Strong Brands    Name    Logo Design: Kore 10 Tips

Strategic Brand Management    Brand Equity

Color Psychology in Marketing and Branding

Marketing Strategy

Creative Marketing    The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

Advertising  >>  Checklist

Winning and Retaining Customers

Winning Customers    Creating Customers

Customer Value Proposition    Unique Selling Proposition (UPS)

Competing

Sustainable Competitive Advantage    Competitive Strategy

Competing Skills     Competitive War Games

Enterprise Strategy

Venture Strategies    Blue Ocean Strategy

Examples

Coaching by Example

Logo of Business e-Coach

Brand Management

Asian Home Gourmet    Rich Dad

Customer Value Creation

Emotional Marketing

Amazon    Coco Chanel    Estee Lauder    Half.com    Unisys

 

References:

  1. Differentiate or Die, Jack Trout with Steve Rivkin

  2. Extreme Management, Mark Stevens

  3. The Power of Simplicity, Jack Trout with Steve Rivkin

  4.  The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Al Ries & Jack Trout.

  5. Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization, Edition 4

  6. Competitive Strategy, Michael Porter

  7. Agenda, Michael Hammer

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