Every have someone tell you that you need a value proposition or unique selling proposition, but no definition as to how to do that. This slideshare does, with good detail. This slideshare and the free workbook that is available will help you create the basis for your marketing strategy.

1. 5 Keys to an
Amazing Value Proposition
What they never taught you in school when
getting your MBA!
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Carl Hartman, from Brand.gineering
Chief Brand Architect &Best-Selling Author
http://www.brandgineering.org

2. So??????
Value Propositions are meant to sell your brand or
product to a customer, not build up your ego.
If it sounds like it is from the Dilbert Mission Statement
generator, start over.
Without intense meaning to your customer, so f-ing
what? Why should we care?

3. –Dr. Seuss
“A person's a person, no matter how small.”

4. First it is a
State of Mind
Remember that this
is only about your
customer. You don’t
matter!

5. It is not a
Mission
Statement
Should you be doing
this to paste up in your
lobby, wrong reason.
This is practical data
used for marketing
strategy.

6. The end of this presentation has exercises to
put the elements taught here into practice, so
after the explanations continue on and get
some additional value.

7. Value Proposition Defined
Your product or service MUST have an
1) attraction and 2) personality that is so
3) critical and 4) compelling
5) to the customer that they voluntarily
take their money out of their pocket and
spend it with you.

8. Value Proposition Breakdown
Your product or service MUST have an
1) attraction and
2) personality that is so
3) critical and
4) compelling
5) to the customer that they voluntarily
take their money out of their pocket and
spend it with you.

9. Text
The Attraction
Think hard about those little things that
make people gravitate to your brand.

10. 1 - Attraction
Songs have what is called a hook. The hook is that
part of the song that keeps your toe tapping long after
the music stops. It makes it stand out. Your product or
service must have a hook.
Some define this as a differentiator. If you have a local
construction company and there are 20 other
construction companies in your area, you have to set
yourself apart and make yourself a lot different than the
other companies, in the mind of your customers.

11. Text
Personality
Even inanimate objects have personality
and so should your brand.

12. Personality
The majority of products are sold on a basis of human
interaction, people want to feel good about our purchase
and have a relationship with the person selling us the
goods or with the store.
An iPhone has personality. Remember that.
People do purchase based on price, but only in certain
market segments. The fact is, people want an amazing
customer experience and relationship while getting a
great deal.

13. Text
Critical and Compelling
Two sides of the same coin, want and need.

14. Critical
This is going to sound opposite. If a customer has a critical
need, you need to fill in the other blank, which is creating a
compelling reason to purchase.
If your customer has a bad water heater and goes to the
Internet searching for a plumber to supply their need to
make a rapid replacement (critical need), your marketing
effort must be directed to providing compelling reasons
to use that service, that includes managed word-of-mouth
and communication that evokes feelings of appropriate
trust in the time of critical need.

15. Compelling
Now, the opposite side of the equation. Should your
customer have a want, your job is to create the feeling
of a critical need.
Should you be a plumber that specializes in remodeling
bathrooms in tight financial times, your efforts would be
focused on an effort that establishes you as the local
expert on cost effective bathroom remodels and
channels them toward feelings of critical need to take
the next steps to purchasing from you.

16. Text
The Customer
Quality communication and service

17. Customer Service
Your interaction with your customer and their
experience is a key driver of sales. It also drives word-
of-mouth, your best ROI in marketing.
How you communicate your message to your
customer is critical and that usually happens through
your marketing materials and your customer
interaction. All your efforts, media or in-person, should
be focused on a customer focused, emotional
experience.

18. Value Proposition =
Message + Experience
Your value proposition is always a blend of
the message and interaction.

19. Practical Application
Examples of practical application in the next slides.
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20. Pen and
Paper
If you have been
doing this without
pen and paper in
hand, get some now.

21. STOP!!!
Remember what we said at the start. Rather than
a magic bullet solution or a nice statement you
can engrave on a plaque and put in your lobby, a
value proposition is the definition of the important
elements that define your brand to your client.
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Eventually, you can reduce it to a simpler
statement, but right now this is about your
customer and you, not flowery wording!

22. Attraction Exercise
Define the elements that, in a meaningful way, speak to
your ideal customer.
Define those things you want your dream customer to
feel and keep with them after they interact with your
brand. What is that one message that sticks with them?
All this is done in a manner that is empowering.
Reframe weaknesses to positive statements, even if
you don’t believe those statements, yet.

23. Attraction Examples
Our plumbers provide total disaster restoration
solutions, including water clean up and mold
remediation services to insure safe and secure
solutions to your plumbing emergencies.
Negative fact reframed: Our employees are not well
trained. (This needs to be fixed, but you and your
customers need this positive for you to thrive.)
We have a well trained and certified staff of plumbers.

24. Personality Exercise
Not everyone has the luxury of direct and personal
contact with the customer. That is why we talk about the
importance of a perceived relationship; because the reality
is that almost all customer relationships are perceived
relationships. Rarely, will you have your customers over to
your house for dinner and the salesperson at Nordstrom’s
or Macy’s probably will not remember your name, unless it
is on your credit card. However, your vast customer
database must feel as though they have an authentic
relationship with your brand…

25. Personality Exercise
Outline the things you are doing now to build or
maintain your relationships with your customers or the
things you would would do, if you are still in the
process of designing your brand.
Describe what kinds things you would be doing with
your dream customer to build relationships and attract
those customers.

26. Personality Examples
We spend valuable time with our customers at charity
events and never discuss business, building deeper
relationships so we understand them better.
We go out to our customer’s location and work beside
them to understand their requirements from our
products and services.

27. Critical & Compelling
Describe why your brand is critical to your dream
customer.
Describe why your brand is compelling to your dream
customer.
This might be more difficult than you would expect. So,
we will pour on even more pressure. Your customers
ask these questions and are hard on you. Therefore…

28. So f-ing what?
Describe to your dream customer why would
voluntarily make a purchase. Remember to use the
“So, what?” question.
Put yourself in the place of your ideal customer and rip
yourself apart. Again, your customer do this to you,
beat them to it! Maybe find your friend that is an ass
when he gets drunk and give him a few beers, then talk
businesses; but, be hyper-critical.

29. Now what?
You have done more today than most big companies do in
creating a meaningful value proposition and having a brand
strategy. You have focus!
Example: We want a web site for the company. Your value
proposition now gives you the basis for asking go
questions. Does the design and message stick in the
customer’s mind? Leave them wanting more? Set us apart
and provide sections that answer both the critical and
compelling needs of my customer to generate a purchase?
Well…???

30. Now what?
Now that you have totally befuddled your web site
designer, you have done something important. Your
content now is doing what it should, not a pretty
design, but a design that moves your product.
The value proposition is your guiding light and structure
for all your marketing efforts.

31. Ending so soon?
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of these elements and so much more in
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