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How to Set Your Business Apart from Your Competitors

Your business should have something unique about it that sets it apart from the competition.

If your business appears to be just like every other business in your industry, then there will be very little reason for customers to choose you as opposed to one of your many competitors.

Marketing strategy Reds TipsWhen competing businesses have no distinguishing benefits to set them apart, when they all offer basically the same products or services, the same customer service, etc. then
customers will tend to compare those businesses based on price alone-the lowest price wins.

Here are some of the ways you can set yourself apart:

1. Focus on a Particular Niche.

Perhaps you are a supplier of plastic conversion equipment selling injection and blow moulding machines. An area to specialise on could be material handling in supplying blending and drying systems.

Maybe you are in the service industry like IT  where you can focus on supplying an SMS service rather than the installation and repairs of PCs.

If you are a fitness instructor, you could focus on helping keep business employees fit, or you could be the personal fitness instructor that focuses on high-level business executives.

2. Become the Low-Price, or the High-Price Leader

Design your business to provide good products for an extremely economical price. Your company would be committed to providing excellent savings for your customers.

Or you could take the opposite route and become the high-price provider. Obviously, you would have to target a completely different market segment than the low-price leader.

3. Offer Excellent Customer Service

Set your company apart by providing exceptional customer service. Make your customers say, 'Wow!' whenever they do business with you. This is one of the best ways to set your business apart from the rest.

4. Offer a Unique Advantage

If you are in the analysing and testing business supply a service that collects and delivers the equipment.
Another example could be to specialize in servicing and repairs one type of motorcycle and perfect it to such an extent that it improves the performance of the motorcycle.

A lawn care service could offer a special treatment to keep their customers' lawns greener longer.

When that service is unique to your company, you have set yourself apart from your competitors.

5. Offer an Incredible Guarantee

A travel company that specialized in motorcoach vacation tours for senior travellers, rise head
and shoulders above their competitors by offering a 100% money-back guarantee on any aspect of their trip that wasn't delivered as promised.

Their sales immediately experienced a 20% increase, and very, few people ever asked for a refund. We knew that would be the case, since this business owner always
provided top-notch services and always delivered everything she promised.

Her associates and competitors thought she had lost her mind by offering such a powerful guarantee. They mistakenly believed that her customers would take advantage of her--but that is rarely the case.

The vast majority of customers are good, honest people who just want to know that they are going to get what they paid for. So make it clear that you will stand behind your promises. Guarantee them.

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