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Don’t differentiate yourself, differentiate your customers

Written on April 24, 2010 – 1:48 pm | by Steve Yastrow |

For generations, marketers and sales people have tried to differentiate their products, their services and themselves.

This has become more challenging than ever, because customers are convinced, in our land of plenty, that any product or service they buy could be purchased somewhere else, from someone else.  Just about everything has a substitute.

So, if you want your customer to see you as different, why not focus on something that he believes is different?  Instead of trying to differentiate yourself, why not show him that you recognize he is different?

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Comment by Judith Ellis
2010-04-25 11:17:31

Beautiful, Steve. Thank you. I think you’re great.

 
Comment by Steve Yastrow
2010-04-25 22:18:32

The feeling is mutual Judith! Thanks.

 
Comment by Rob
2010-04-30 07:25:19

Love how you’ve flipped what has been taken as marketing 101 for years!

 
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