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Medical Device New Product Launches Are Not a Singular Event, or Point in Time: A series of launch campaigns as you move through the product life cycle

Set up

In a coaching session that I held yesterday with a Sr. Product Manager we were preparing for his first-ever new product launch when, it occurred to me that in all the blog posts and in my book, INSIGHTS: 33 Lesson Learned in Medical Device Marketing[1] I have never really explained that a new product launch is not a single event. The launch never really ends. It is made up of events that track the product life cycle. So, it might serve us better to think of them as a series of Launch Campaigns. Across the life cycle, your device will be exposed to different target customers, geographies, cultures, and healthcare systems. Your messaging, channel, proof points all will need to evolve to keep pace with the various clinical evidence changes, new personas, environmental shifts, and learnings that have taken place with time. The goal is to optimize the strategic product message for the point you find yourself in the product life cycle, optimizing lifetime revenue.

 

Purpose

The purpose of this blog post is to broaden your thinking about the messaging evolution that might be required to facilitate the optimization of adoption at each stage in the product life cycle. To start, what might be some of the indicators that trigger an evolution of messaging.

The first three triggers are obvious ones, but if you don’t have metrics in place you might miss a trigger.

Persona shifts – When the majority of your audience has shifted right along the adoption curve the persona of the target audience will shift towards a more conservative one. Language and strength of clinical evidence, colors, and media channel will need to be tweaked to optimize the impact you will have on the new audience.

  • Innovators / Pioneers
  • Early adopters
  • Early majority
  • Late majority
  • Laggards

 

Clinical evidence shifts – the focus, driven by good, or, no so good, results toward a different clinical target, or a new class of patient. Perhaps you discover that your economic story is stronger than you had originally thought.

  • KOL editorials /Testimonials
  • Posters
  • Single-center case series
  • Controlled clinical trials
  • Multiple controlled trials
  • Meta-analysis
  • Economic data

Launch phases – depending on what phase in the initial launch you are in your goals, focus, targets, and media channel may well need to be optimized to a new type of customer.

  • Clinical trial recruiting of PIs
  • User trials
  • Controlled launch
  • Limited launch
  • General launch – primary geography
  • Repeat for each region of the World into which you are launching.

Other aspects of the product life cycle that can trigger the need for a new campaign are:

  • Competitive response
  • Pricing shifts
  • Contracts being secured
  • Reimbursement changes
  • Device enhancements
  • Complaints
  • FDA actions
  • Achieving a number one share position
  • Therapeutic/clinical practice changes
  • Major environmental changes
  • Regulatory policy or guideline shifts

A cautionary note

As mentioned in several earlier posts “message congruency” is critical.

You can’t isolate one group of customers from another completely. Your message optimization should not cause dramatic changes and the core value position must remain in tack. So be careful. The one time you can be a bit bolder in your changes is where you can control access to an “event”.

As a rule of thumb, I try to maintain a campaign for 18 months. With digital marketing it is so much easier to change the message you will be tempted to jerk the message around too often. Don’t. Remember the fundamentals you need to validate every messaging change you make before it is released to the target audience.

The only thing worse than not occasionally optimizing the messaging, is changing it so often or so dramatically the device loses its core identity, and you begin to confuse the clinician.

Examples of optimization that might focus a campaign –

  • First – to – Best
  • Best – to – Gold standard
  • Innovative – to – Proven
  • Premium – to – The highest value

Metaphor –

We have often thought of launching a rocket as a metaphor for launching a new product. I have only written about lift-off. To reach outer space, often booster stages are required, second and third stages might be needed to break free of the earth’s gravity. Depending on the size of the payload, more stages or booster engines may be required. The same goes for new products.

Metrics –

Another lesson from NASA for us is that if we don’t have a course to follow, we can’t know if we are on, or off, trajectory. Set your course pro-actively, check it periodically, and then correct by firing your navigational boosters, gently.

Challenge –

Here is a challenge for you, if you strive to become an even better product manager or up-stream marketer.

The next time you are planning a launch, create a campaign progression map. Imagine covering the entirety of the product’s life cycle.

Lessons:

  1. Uncertainty is not to be feared, be bold and think the whole product life cycle through from the very beginning to the end.
  2. Targeted customer personas shift with time and distance along the adoption curve.
  3. Having effective metrics is critical.

“Experience is what you get, right after you need it most.”

Make it a great day!

Tim Walker

Tim Walker is the Principal Consultant for The Experia® Group, a consulting firm specializing in providing experience and expertise during critical device commercialization phases to increase the probability of success. One-on-One, or, team coaching is available.

www.theexperiagroup.com.

Contact, The Experia® Group for a free 30-minute consultation to determine if 30+ years of experience can contribute to your success.  [email protected]

© 2021, The Experia® Group, LLC

[1] Available on Amazon

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January 6th, 2021 the FDA released the Safer Technologies Program [STeP], implications for medical device marketers[1]

Prelude

With the creation of the STeP process the FDA finally, after 45-years, signals that they are proactively trying to fill the implied mandate from Congress to protect the US population by ensuring that safety is proactively promoted in the medical device space.

Set-up 

Safety has always been a prime motivator for change within the human population.  When I think about the motivators for physicians to change their purchasing (use) behaviors I reflect on a model that we have all seen before,  Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.  Modifying Maslow’s labels for the five levels to those of a physician’s we might see something like this.  Of course, there are more and different ways of saying them, but essentially this is what motivates physicians to buy or try new technology.

The STeP Process

The STeP process allows the FDA to expedite the review of devices that have the potential to significantly improve safety.  If you are defining a device that will:

  • Reduce the occurrence of a known serious adverse event
  • Reduce the incidence of a known failure mode
  • Reduce a known use-related hazard or use error
  • Improve the safety of another device or intervention

You should factor in the STeP time and cost savings into the justification for proceeding with the R&D project.  Having your product designated as a STeP device has real messaging and PR potential.  More importantly, as you consider how to prioritize competing products for your new product road map, the STeP designation should provide additional consideration.

Note: The FDA has prioritized Breakthrough Technology above the STeP program for resource allocation.  Breakthrough Technology program is mandated by Congress.

Conclusion

Yes, the STeP program is significant to medical device marketers.  To learn more visit [email protected]

Lessons:

  1. Know the regulations so you can get the most out of your partnership with the FDA
  2. Patient safety is not assumed, it must be advocated for by every department and person, the FDA just made that advocacy easier for you.
  3. Scan the grand environment constantly for changes that can help and sometimes detract from your product line success.

“Experience is what you get, right after you need it most.”

Make it a great day!

Tim Walker

Tim Walker is the Principal Consultant for The Experia® Group, a consulting firm specializing in providing experience and expertise during critical device commercialization phases to increase the probability of success. One-on-One, or, team coaching is available.

www.theexperiagroup.com.

Contact, The Experia® Group for a free 30-minute consultation to determine if 30+ years of experience can contribute to your success.  [email protected]

© 2021, The Experia® Group, LLC

[1] MED DEVICE ONLINE, Mark Durivage, January 25, 2021

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Pre or Post Covid-19 creating the right message for new medical devices is critical

Preface

Since the early 1900’s it has been well understood that we, as marketers, sell holes, not drills. Translating that adage into the 2000s and relating it to medical devices, the saying goes something like this; we sell improved clinical outcomes, not the tool that provides it. We sell greater safety, not the equipment that enables it. Yet, I still see advertisements that describe in great detail the physicality of the device. I hear sales representatives take about how their device is made of optically clear plastic.  

 We complain that it takes a decade for physicians to adopt our technology, and yet, we take decades to deploy the latest realizations in medical device marketing.

 Virtual or not, digital or not, regardless of the channel, we must deliver a clear and relevant message. We must promote the outcomes of our products, not what the product is. The clinical benefits and health economic benefits motivate the healthcare institution to purchase, not the device’s features and attributes. They never get to what clear empowers or enables. They let the clinician connect the dots.

Set-up

Recently, I was working with a client on developing the messaging for a new medical device. He went on for 15 minutes on what the product was, how it worked, its cost, how it was better, lighter, and faster than the competition. He was articulate and passionate. It was truly amazing to hear.

 When he finished, I asked a couple of simple questions. Why would I need your device? What will your device allow me to accomplish? This sparked another 15-minute download about the therapy that the device supported. He was equally articulate about the therapy description as he had been about the device description.

 He started to realize that the connection between the two revealed the benefit that the device brought; that is what we were selling.

 The features and attributes exemplify how our drill makes the hole better than our competition’s. 

 I pulled this quote out and had him read it; then, I watched as the wheels turned. 

  Leo McGivena: “Last year one million quarter-inch drills were sold, not because people wanted quarter-inch drills, but because they wanted quarter-inch holes. . .”

 How do you get to the right message?

    •  We started with a one-paragraph description of the clinical problem from the perspective of the clinician. 
      • (Why we needed a hole)
    • We then wrote a two-paragraph product positioning (benefit) statement.
      • (How we provided the hole.)
    • We then wrote a one-page value proposition.
      • (Why our hole was more valuable than the hole our competitors made.)
    • We then crafted a pricing strategy.
      • (What was the realizable value of the hole.)

 Note: These documents are defined in previous posts and in INSIGHTS: 33 lessons learned in medical device marketing available on Amazon.

 Result

 Over the course of 3-weeks, we had created four of the five foundational documents (messages) that are needed to drive all the down-stream marketing activities and collateral material.

Lesson(s)

 1. Crafting a message is critical, no matter how long it takes.

2. Creating great foundational work is crucial to successful communication with the clinician customer.

 3. Who delivers the message, how the message is delivered, where the message is delivered, are all important, but are secondary to what the message is.

“Experience is what you get, right after you needed it most.”

 Make it a great day!

 Tim Walker

Tim Walker is the Principal Consultant for The Experia Group, a consulting firm, which provides experience and expertise during critical device commercialization phases to increase the probability of success. Author of INSIGHTS: 33 lessons learned in medical device marketing, available on Amazon.

One-on-one or team coaching is available.

 www.theexperiagroup.com. Contact The Experia® Group for a free 30-minute consultation to determine if 30-years of experience can contribute to your success. [email protected].

© 2020, The Experia Group, LLC

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Persuasive Power derived from the Benefit Pyramid+™, in Medical Device Marketing

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I saw a half dozen posts this past week that announced New Medical Devices. So this INSIGHT goes out to those product managers that produced those notices.

Was there something inherently wrong in those announcements? No. Could they have been better? Yes. Given that they were merely announcements, they weren’t necessarily intended to convey the entire message. So please take this post as an opportunity to think deeper.

So how could they have been improved?

By applying the lessons of the Benefit Pyramid. Most of the content of the announcements referred to Attributes or Features of the devices. Seen in the image below, Attributes and Features have a low impact when persuading someone to act differently. I would offer that if a message that focuses on features is successful, it is because the clinician is projecting the benefit they might derive from those features. As a product manager, being intentional about messaging you will realize that counting on a very busy clinician to project a benefit is not as strong a position as you telling them how the device will be beneficial to them.

For most of us mortal marketers, we target benefits, for those among us who truly understand the psychographics of their targeted clinician customer we suggest or present an emotional benefit that they derive from using our devices.

In this post, I add one more element, hence the + sign. So this new benefit pyramid represents a change in the way I think about persuading clinicians to change their behaviors. It takes into account the ultimate persuader, a moral or social imperative. The closest I have ever gotten to explain the impact of a product as a moral imperative is when I market a safety device.

One only need look to the writings of the Greek physician Hippocrates to discover aspects of the medical ethos and why they might consider safety and having clinical data as a moral imperative.

Hippocratic Oath:

“I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.”

Of the Epidemics:

“The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.”

Lesson(s)

  1. The higher up the Pyramid you can go the more power your persuasion will be
  2. Take the time to dig deep to discover the benefit your product will provide
  3. To tap the p persuasive power of the Benefit + Pyramid, you must authentically believe in what you are saying in your messaging

“Experience is what you get, right after you needed it most.”

Make it a great day!

Tim Walker

Tim Walker is the Principal consultant for The Experia Group. A small consulting firm that specializes in providing experience and expertise during critical device commercialization phases to increase the probability of success. www.theexperiagroup.com. Contact The Experia® Group for a free 30-minute consultation to determine if 30-years of experience can contribute to your success. [email protected].

 

© 2019, The Experia Group, LLC

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Clinical Evidence Plan Creation for Medical Device Marketers

The Set Up

I have found that there is often a disconnect between the desired Marketing Messaging and the Clinical Evidence proof that has been created in support of the product. Many product managers are caught between what they want to say vs. what they are allowed to say. This sets up a potential conflict that could lead to “off-label” claims.

The Problem

When there is a disconnect between messaging and proof points a number of outcomes may or will occur:

  • The message is weak
  • Un-supported claims – misleading statements
  • Failed regulatory process
  • Confusion and wasted resources
  • Frustration

What causes the disconnect?

There are a number of reasons this disconnect might occur:

  • Lack of an integrated Commercialization strategy
  • The Clinical Affairs group acting to serve the minimal required Regualtory Strategy
  • Marketing not providing input to Clinical Affairs before the evidence collection begins
  • Marketing not knowing what they want to say about the product
  • A desire to minimize cost

None of the above reasons are good ones. We have talk about the product managers role as being the keeper and communicator of the vision for the new product launch. This has to include the development of a clinical evidence plan.

What to do to prevent the disconnect?

Create a Clinical Evidence Plan – a clinical evidence plan is the thought process and document that connects your marketing message to the clinical trial/study development goals with the regulatory strategy. As with all commercialization processes there are natural tensions between the four roles that surround clinical evidence development. Getting to a consensus won’t be easy. The gains are worth the effort.

How do I create a clinical evidence plan?

There are thirteen steps to creating the plan. I’ll list them here for you, but it may not be clear to you how to actual complete each step. Steps 5-12 are particularly difficult and require some experience to do them well.

Plan creation steps (assume that you will need a working group of marketers, clinical affairs specialists, medical affairs specialists, and regualtory affairs specialists)

Step Description Type of step
1 Strategic marketing message (clarity is required on primary claims) Input
2 Proof points from messaging Extraction
3 Brain storm support claims New input
4 Brain storm desired future claims (outside current messaging) New input
5 Load all desired claims into a spreadsheet (Steps 2,3,4)(leave a comment to this post with your e-mail address for a free spreadsheet template) Team leader action
6 Populate the spreadsheet with the claims and all details

Nature of the claim, clinical end point, evidence level required, study type, study description, regulatory requirement, sample size, number of investigators needed, etc.

 Team event(s)
7 Define scoring scales 5-1 for each impact variable

·      Duration of study score

·      Total cost score

·      Magnitude of market impact score

·      Likelihood of success score

Selecting weighting for each variable

 Team event
8 Have an expanded group score each variable, independantly Individual input
9 Collate and compile the results from all receiptient (best to do frequency plots and averages for all variables) Team leader action
10 Review scoring and reach concensus on each score, don’t just use the average score. Team event
11 Calculate the impact scores (Duration x weight) x (Total cost x weight) x (Magnitutude market impact x weight) x (Likelihood of success x weight) = Combined impact score Team leader action
12 Apply team judgement to the scores and prioritize Team event(s)
13 Publish results Team lead and team

Cautions: Scales and weights will drive the prioritization; spend enough time on these two sets of decisions.

The Benefits of an Integrated Clinical Evidence plan are:

  • Powerful messaging
  • Team alignment
  • Effective use of resources

Lessons:

  1. Be proactive and lead
  2. Know what you want to say about the product before you start the clinical evidence collection process
  3. Build consensus on the best approach to develop clinical evidence

“Experience is what you get, right after you need it most.”

Make it a great day,

Tim Walker

Tim Walker is the Principal consultant for The Experia Group. A small consulting firm that specializes in providing experience and expertise during critical device commercialization phases to increase the probability of success. www.theexperiagroup.com. Contact The Experia Group for a free 30-minute consultation to determine if 30-years of experience can contribute to your success.

Copyright 2018, The Experia Group®, LLC

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Keeping the Strategic Message Pure in the Marketing Mix

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The Set Up

Working with several clients to develop their up-stream product and corresponding messaging strategies for elements of their portfolio was relatively straight forward, right up until we needed to translate that strategy and messaging into actionable input for the down-stream activities.  Then everything came to a grinding halt.

I don’t use the word translate lightly.  It felt as though there were three or four languages being spoken in the room at the same time.  It was to say the least frustrating at the worst maddening.  How do you translate the Up-stream message to the Down-stream message?

What was going on?

Digging a little deeper I determined that it was much more than just a language issue. The promotions and branding teams that were put together to “package” the message into an attractive and readily acceptable set of collateral materials and campaigns came from different cultures where specific tools had been developed, practiced, and became so engrained that they could no longer accept input without it being in the format they were individually accustomed to.

 This was a challenge as there were at least six different formats that were being used.  When you stepped back from the translation process it was amazing to see that the majority of these forms, templates and formats all used the same words and phrases, but they all had slightly different meanings due to the contextual difference from the user perspective.  Words and phrases such as: segmentation, positioning, targeting, persona, value proposition all meant different things.

 This translation issue was significant and any hope for efficiencies went right out the window.  My role was to make sure we didn’t lose effectiveness as well.

What to do?

Admittedly my thinking is not complete on this issue, but here is what I did.  For those of you who have read some of my other posts you’ll know that I am a huge fan of writing down concepts as a vehicle of communications.  It became clear to me that that would not be enough in this case.  I had to make sure that the messaging did not become confused. I had to make sure that the Strategy was not “thrown over a wall” to those responsible for putting a beautiful wrapper around the execution of the strategic messaging.

I asked myself what brought clarity to me regarding the positioning of the product.  The answer was, perspective and context that I had gained through immersion in the customer environment.  Somehow I had to translate that perspective that insight to the down-stream creatives.   

So?  Here is what the team did.  We held several sessions where market research findings were presented to the creative team with discussion.  We made available digital recordings of customer interviews.  We used their forms and we stayed intimately involved as a “technical advisor” to their creative process.  We attended their creative workshops.  The tone of our input was one of a knowledgable guide.  When the creatives seemed to be diverting from the message we assumed that it was us that didn’t understand and we listened carefully.  We would reassert an insight and show where we derived that insight from an interview or the research in real time.

We did everything we could and more to “tear down the wall”.  Did this approach work?  Couldn’t hurt.  Time will tell.

Lessons:

1.     Don’t assume that just because we are all marketers that we speak the same language.

2.     Sometimes we can’t see the walls that we ourselves helped to build.

3.     Tear down the walls, don’t throw vision over the wall and think it will land correctly.

 “Experience is what you get, right after you need it most.” 

Make it a great day, 

Tim Walker

 

Tim Walker is the Principal consultant for The Experia Group.  A small consulting firm that specializes in providing experience and expertise during critical device commercialization phases to increase the probability of success.  www.theexperiagroup.com.  Contact The Experia Group for a free 30-minute consultation to determine if 30-years of experience can contribute to your success.

 

© 2018, The Experia Group, LLC

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Social Media and Medical Device Marketing

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Magnified illustration with the word Social Media on white background.

The Story

A good friend of mine called me and started asking a lot of questions about the use of social media in medical device marketing. It seems that his VP read an article on social media and wanted an assessment of how i it would benefit their big product launch that is scheduled for 6-months from now.

We spoke for an hour and I truly felt bad for him. He interpreted his bosses question as an order to utilize social media.

Keeping Things in Perspective

whySocial media is a very power tool. In and of itself it is not a goal. When some one tells me that they need social media I often ask why? Not that I don’t believe in the power of social media, I do, but if you can’t tell me why you need social media there is a step missing. All marketing actions need to begin with a goal or objective, a strategy to achieve the goal and then followed-up by a series of tactics to realize the goal aligned with the strategy.

The Goal is Customer Engagement

Customer engagement is one of those objectives that should be obvious to everyone, but it is not. It is well worth adding a section to your launch pltemperature gage customer engagementan titled Customer Engagement, outline the detail about how, who, when and why the engagement will occur. Please remember to calculate the cost!

Methods of Customer Engagement in Medical Device Marketing

Customer engagement has been happening since the first medical device was invented. It is nothing new. It is ever increasing in importance and sophistication, as there are new messaging channels and quote-if-all-you-have-is-a-hammer-everything-looks-like-a-nail-abraham-maslow-12950technologies for conducting the engagement. No one set of tools is optimal for any one market, segment, customer or product. You need to customize your plan. Don’t fall into the trap of being a hammer, and everything looks like a nail. Choose the right tool for the job.

The following list identifies a number of engagement approaches:

  • Key Opinion Leader involvement
  • Speaker’s bureaus
  • Hand-on workshopsCustomer engagement
  • Tradeshow events (training, contests, quizzes)
  • Blogs that encourage feedback and discussion
  • Chat rooms
  • Panels
  • Webinars
  • Social media pages that are interactive
  • Plant tours
  • Direct consultive selling

You note that advertising, selling, telling, You-Tube videos, e-mail blasts, Internet messaging are not on the engagement list. There is a fundamental reason for that.

Customer Engagement Defined

Customer ENGAGEMENT is a real time, active, two-way exchange of information, feelings and thoughts that afford participants to deepen their understanding of each others needs, wants and desires. To further invest in each other!

“Consumer Engagement may be a broad topic, but it’s the lifeblood of any sophisticated marketing organization’s strategy. We define consumer engagement as the interactions between a brand and it’s customer. These interactions can – and should – happen simultaneously across multiple online and offline marketing channels. Skilled marketers can guide this engagement to serve their business needs, while also providing consumers with an authentically enjoyable experience.”1

If the right vehicle for that engagement includes social media or digital marketing then go for it!

How Does The Story End

My friend took a breath and revaluated the launch plan. He added a section (3-slides) on customer engagement. He correctly identified that the broad-based social media effort was not the right approach for engaging Pioneers and Early Adopters. He did identify a strategic intent to capture the engagement with Pioneers and Early Adopter and create an opportunity to “report” out that progression to the Early Majority users.

He added a tactic to his plan a tactic to create a private chat room (password protected, non-public access) for the “soft launch” users to exchange experiences with early use experience. Part of the plan to promote distance engagement called for a discussion forum every two weeks via a virtual meeting room, where engineers, marketers and clinicians could relate user successes and issues.   I did recommend that a Quality representative attend to assess in real-time if a complaint needed to be filed and to record any and all clinical suggestions that might be proposed by an engineer.

An incredibly smart move on his part was to hire a digital marketing (DM)/social media (SM), consulting firm to review the engagement strategy and educate him and his team in where DM/SM might add value. The mission is to optimize an integrated launch media strategy in time to convince the Early Majority users to leap the “innovator chasm”.

Selling the expense for the consultant was easy. He presented it as way to increase the competency of his marketing organization, making sure that the tools available in the 21st century were appropriately applied, exactly what his VP was after.

[1] https://www.offerpop.com/definitions/what-is-consumer-engagement/

“Experience is what you get, right after you need it most.”

Make it a great day,

Tim Walker

Tim Walker is the Principal consultant for The Experia Group. A small consulting firm that specializes in providing experience and expertise during critical device commercialization phases to increase the probability of success.  Contact Tim for a free 30-minute consultation to see how he can contribute to your success at www.theexperiagroup.com.

© 2016, The Experia Group, LLC

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Message Congruency in Medical Device Commercialization

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The Story

Have you ever seen messaging related to a new product that was clearly disjointed? Maybe you saw a tradeshow booth that spoke of the product a bit differently than the sales brochure and the salesman’s pitch was a different story all together?

A VP of Marketing hired me to figure out why their dynamite new product wasn’t gaining the momentum that they had expected. This is one of the most enjoyable and potentially beneficial services that I get to perform for clients. Consider it a launch autopsy.

There are many other causes for a slow takeoff of a new product. For this particular client the issue was a confusing message.   So confusing that one might describe it as conflicting. Why is this a big deal? Walker’s Law of Congruency™ states, “As human beings we seek congruency. We constantly are trying to connect the dots. The price has to match the value of the product. The color schemes have to represent the claims, etc. When our minds detect an incongruent message we start to doubt everything about the issue or in our case the product. The customer loses trust in the product.”

How do we prevent incongruent messages as marketers? There are lots of factors, but simply we need to know exactly what our message is, more importantly everyone that is working on or near the launch must understand the message.

How do we stay on message?

We write. We publish the five documents that then serve as the source for every piece of collateral, every training script, every creative brief.

  • Segmentation
  • Targeting (user and buyer)
  • Product positioning statement
  • Product value proposition
  • Pricing strategy

These are the five documents that act as the base. Everything else flows from here.

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In addition to these five basic documents there is a format to the story line. It is not mine; it is something that is adapted from other sources.

  • Problem statement
  • Solution statement
  • Reasons to believe
  • Proof set
  • Call to action

If you publish the five core documents and keep any promotional materials and sales pitches in the five-element format it is unlikely that you will have incongruent or even worst conflicting messages.

“Experience is what you get, right after you need it most.”

Make it a great day,

Tim Walker

Tim Walker is the Principal consultant for The Experia Group. A small consulting firm that specializes in providing experience and expertise during critical device commercialization phases to increase the probability of success. www.theexperiagroup.com.

 

© 2015 The Experia Group, LLC