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Examples of Competitor De-positioning

Getting prospects think that you are better

 

 

 

   

De-positioning a competitor is a strategic marketing approach that highlights a competitor's weaknesses or gaps in their offering, contrasted with your own brand's strengths, to make them less attractive to customers. It focuses on creating a "rescuer point," where your solution addresses a specific critical shortcoming in the market that competitors fail to fill.

 

 

 

Vadim Kotelnikov

Depositioning is about changing the mindset of customers about competing brands or products so that your customers and prospects think that you create greater value for them than your competitors.

Vadim Kotelnikov, founder of 1000ventures - personal logo VadiK

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Avis

Some time ago, Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. debuted a new advertising campaign that featured a brand-new tagline – "We Try Harder." At that time, AVIS was #2 company in the industry, so the marketing slogan was telling prospects indirectly that AVIS tried harder than #1 in creating great customer value.


Apple

Steve Jobs in his famous new-product presentations delivered exciting and amusing stories where an Apple's innovative product acted as a hero who was solving customer problems created by competitors.


Telegram

"Unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day, you should delete WhatsApp from your phone... To put it simply, it doesn't matter how many other messaging apps are out there if all of them suck." ~ Pavel Durov

 

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Innompic Games vs.  traditional social networks

Traditional social networks are horizontal – they only help people communicate.
Innompics is ​​both horizontal and vertical. Innompics helps participants both communicate and grow.

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Innompic Peace Prize positioned

The True Peace Way
no one walked before

The Innompic Peace Prize was announced after an international group of experts had analysed the Nobel Peace Prize practices and discovered that it was not nurturing true peace in the World.

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Vadim Kotelnikov (VadiK), innopreneur coaching by example

Laughter is a master key to success. It helps spread joy, connect with others, remove tensions, learn joyfully, heal diseases, and conquer adversaries.

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A Joke about Winning by De-positioning

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A farmer buys a new rooster to replace his old one, and puts him in the chicken coop...

The new rooster walks up arrogantly to the old rooster and says "out of the way old man! These are my hens now. Your time is done."

 

 

 

How To Defeat a Stronger Competitor: De-positioning example  

The old rooster rolls his eyes.

"Alright, fine, I get it. I'm old. But I still have some living left to do, and won't give up my hens so easily. There is only room in this coop for one of us. Let's settle it this way: we race around the coop. The winner stays, and the other goes."

The young rooster agrees to the challenge.

 

 

   

The old rooster says "but listen, I'm not the young cock I once was. You have to give me a 5 second head start to make it fair." The young rooster agrees to these terms.

When race time comes, the young rooster counts down to start it. "3... 2...1... go!" The old rooster takes off running, giving it his all. After 5 seconds, the new rooster takes off after him. As they round the first turn of the race, the new rooster is already about to catch up to the old one, right on his heels.

Then the farmer's wife shouted to her husband: "Who did you bring? He's chasing our old rooster!"

The farmer grabs his shotgun, and shoots the young rooster, leaving only some blood and feathers. He exclaims angrily,  "Damn it! That's the third gay rooster I've bought this month!"

 

 

 

Win with ability, not with numbers.

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Sun Tzu: The Art of War

Know your enemy and know yourself
– your victory will be painless.

Sun Tzu