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Competitive differentiation is a vital consideration across all key success factors.

Competitive differentiation is the creation of a solution that you can position so as to set your company and hosted services apart from your competition.

You can achieve differentiation through many means: value-added services, pricing approach, packaging, support, unique messaging, quality, direct/indirect sales channel methods, the business model, demand generation methods, or customer experience. The key success factors listed in this marketing guide help you enhance your competitive differentiation.

Key Questions
  • Who is your competition?
    • Telecom operators?
    • Managed service providers?
    • Distributors?
    • Internal processes?
  • How can you create real differentiation?
  • Will the differentiation you create lasting or fleeting?
Competitive differentiation is a unique key success factors because it effectively supports the other key success factors. When each of the other success factors is considered through the lens of creating competitive differentiation, your business experiences can recapture the prospect that was already heading out the door, and capture new prospects from your competitors.
To truly aid competitiveness, your differentiated actions must create strategic or lasting barriers that are difficult for competitors to overcome. Keep this in mind while learning about the next seven key success factors.
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