
196 ◾ The Guide to Entrepreneurship: How to Create Wealth for Your Company
by Al Ries and Jack Trout in their bestseller book Positioning—The Battle for
Your Mind.
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Positioning is the great antidote to commoditization in your market. The
centrality of positioning is shown graphically in Figure9.11.
9.8.1 Famous Positioning Statements
The positioning statement is a subset of an optimized value proposition for
marketing communications purposes. It identies the target audience, the prod-
uct and its category, and a specic benet, and is differentiable from the near-
est competitive alternative. It is a non-ambiguous statement that becomes the