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Business Strategy: How do you compete in a business where the professionals don't give priority to value added product and services that you offer?
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Nigel Sonariwo, Virtual Strategic Marketing and PR Consultant answered:

Hello!

What you are asking after, is an age old business challenge; One that can be addressed, utilizing the modern tools of social media, to help stake your product and service position.

The competition are doing what they are supposed to do; They are selling the ‘sizzle’ not the steak; by offering lower prices with less value added services than you do. There will always be customers who initially react to a lower perceived price offering.

However; there are a number of ways to compete against price; but I’d first need to know more about what exactly you are selling; your current market position; your competitive price points; margins etc.

The competition are the new guys in town, as you rightly noted. They need to attack you as the veteran in the industry; the incumbent “gold standard’ as it were; by offering price related discounted values.

Your counter is to remind the customers and prospects of what exactly you offer and how your product stand out from the competition.

Let’s talk!

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