Building a Persona – The “Skeptical Futurist”

If you are selling to CIOs or IT strategists, you may find this post of interest. (Visit The Marketing High Ground blog for more examples of personas.) Human perception is a tricky thing, for although teams may share a common understanding of their product portfolio,...

The Case for the Positioning Statement

One of my personal “aha!” moments about the importance of having a clear product positioning statement came about during my tenure as a PR manager with HP’s Test & Measurement group (prior to the Agilent spinoff).   One of the divisions had just...