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Stretching your customer's value gap

Bob Apollo - 5 December 2019

Whenever your customer sees little meaningful difference between their current situation and their future potential, they will be inclined to stick with the status quo.
And whenever they see little meaningful contrast between the various offerings being proposed to them, they will be inclined to buy the lowest-cost solution.
If you are determined to compete on value and not on price, and if you are equally determined to avoid losing potentially winnable opportunities to a decision to “do nothing”, you need to establish the strongest possible value gap between your approach and all the other options available to them.
To achieve this, you need to recognise that your competitors are not just the other similar vendors that are proposing apparently similar solutions – your true competition includes all the other credible options your customer might be considering…
Contrast creates value and drives change: contrast is the driving force that establishes

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