If your team doesn’t understand and buy into your positioning…
❌ Then your customers surely won’t.
And there are few things more painful than internal positioning misalignment.
(Especially in B2B companies)
âť“ No one really knows who they are building for.
🤔 No one can agree on the main use case to build around.
↪️ No one can explain what this product would replace.
And this misalignment shows up in the work:
đź’˘ PRDs that create more questions than they answer.
đź’˘ debates turn into full blown arguments.
đź’˘ sprint planning & stand-ups meander with no clear direction.
The result of this misalignment?
💀💀💀 A lackluster product with unclear messaging.
And make no mistake about it…
đźš© This is a positioning problem.
You MUST get your entire team on board with your approach to the market by addressing 3 fundamental questions:
🟤 what you’re building
(use case)
🟡 who you’re building for
(target customer)
âš« what you plan to replace
(current way)
Remember, though you’re customers need to understand and buy into your positioning…
That can’t happen until your team understands and buys into it.
🧑‍💻🤜 They are the ones that actually put the positioning into action.
Ben Wilentz
Founder, Stealth Startup