REPAMA Consultancy Services
When high-tech vendors have the best technology in their market but still lose sales to their competition, they may need to look closely at their product positioning and messaging.
Lustratus REPAMA’s positioning and messaging consultancy helps vendors to find the best way to clearly express the real strengths of their technology in both marketing and sales situations, in a way that differentiates them in the markets in which they compete.
Aligning the strengths of a product to the needs of prospects and ensuring that those prospects understand exactly why the vendor’s approach is both different and better than the competition is the art of positioning. Lustratus REPAMA helps organisations to develop effective positioning strategies.
Consultancy and Workshops
Lustratus REPAMA has created a series of workshops and consultancy services that aim to combine the knowledge of the vendor’s key people with Lustratus’ experience of creating marketing propositions. We first work with the vendor to understand where the issue lies. The table below shows some of the more common issues that we help to resolve.
Issue |
Typical vendor comments |
| Ultra competition | We face significant competition in the market that always seem to get the business |
| Lead generation | We are not able to generate interest in our products amongst our target customers |
| Repeating success | Our sales teams have mixed success. Some individuals are performing but others are not. Capturing this success and ensuring that this is replicated across the rest of the team is not easy |
| No references | We’ve got really smart early market technology but it’s not yet trusted and we have no real references |
| Proposition too technical | We have a really great technical story and our prospect’s technical staff really “get” what we’re about but we aren’t able to tell the story to the non-technical staff |
| Technically-led sale | When dealing with prospects, technical evaluations go really well but then we typically lose control of the sale |
| Industry focus | We have changed focus into a new industry and are struggling to get traction |
| Poor communication | We talk about our products and our audience glaze over and they don’t get what our products are about |
| Proof | Either because we are a young company or because our customers are reluctant to allow us to use their name, we are not able to prove to our prospects that we have helped other companies |
| New market traction | We’re trying to enter a new market and we just aren’t able to get traction |
| No differentiation | We find it very difficult to differentiate in our marketplace. Our competitors all ‘appear’ to be able to do the same thing so the business goes the way of the market leader |
| Awareness | Most of our prospects don’t know who we are and if they do they don’t know what we do |
| Benchmarking | Is our marketing organisation performing optimally compared to our competition? |
| Solution sale competition | While we talk to our prospect’s technical staff, our competitors engage with senior management at a much higher level |
Once we have scoped the problem and understood what is required we work with the vendor’s marketing team and key stakeholders to define the solution. This typically takes the form of a workshop or a series of consultation sessions resulting in Lustratus documenting an agreed strategy. Lustratus then works with the vendor to ensure that the new strategy is implemented across the entire organisation from product to marketing to sales.
Tactical Marketing Programs
When defining marketing programs to generate sales leads or to create awareness, Lustratus works with vendors’ marketing teams to ensure that key objectives are met and that important messages and differentiators are incorporated. Aligning specific messages to the target audience in order for them to be compelled to take action is critical in lead generation campaigns. Lustratus has a strong track record in delivering effective marketing programs.
Marketing Collateral
Supporting marketing material such as white papers, use cases and product data sheets are key in ensuring that a positioning strategy is carried faithfully through all outbound marketing materials. Lustratus can build this material for vendors or we can work to ensure that existing material is in line with the positioning strategy.
Further Information
Contact Lustratus to understand how Lustratus REPAMA can help you give your products the stage they deserve.