Product Positioning : An Important Ingredient in the Marketing Plan

Product positioning is a crucial ingredient in the buying process and should never be left to chance. It’s indeed your opportunity to establish and to influence the market’s perception of your products.

Failure to proactively address product positioning is unlikely to end well. With or without your input, customers will position your product—probably based on information from your competitors, which will not flatter you.

Clear, concise and meaningful product positioning also helps cut through the relentless advertising and marketing noise of the marketplace. In your customer’s mind, product positioning gives your messages some context so they can be better heard and accepted.

Consider for instance, how automobile manufacturers position their products through communication via television commercials during sporting events to let audience know what they are launching, or how cosmetics manufacturers run full-page, full-colour advertisements in women's magazines to woo their audience.

For any product, needless to say that product positioning is the foundation of an effective marketing plan because it impacts the ultimate purchase decision.