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How to Drill Down Your Unique Selling Proposition #1758

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In episode #1758, we talk about how to drill down your Unique Selling Proposition or USP. One of the most important sides of growing a successful business is getting to know your customer and correctly positioning yourself to fit that niche. Tune in to hear our top tips for getting this process right in today’s show. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: How to Drill Down Your Unique Selling Proposition. [00:28] What a USP is and how it helps you differentiate yourself. [00:51] Examples of how companies drilled down on their positioning. [02:11] Figuring out your USP by talking to customers. [02:44] How to do customer development without asking leading questions. [03:51] Go to marketingschool.io/live to hang out with Neil and Eric in September. Get ad-free listening plus exclusive content with Marketing School Pro. Try for free at www.marketingschool.io/pro   Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:   April Dunford SharpSpring The Mom Test   Leave Some Feedback:     What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review.     Connect with Us:    Neilpatel.com Quick Sprout  Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel  Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top level marketing tips

0:06.4

and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.

0:11.4

Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with your instructors, Neil Patel, and Eric

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Today we are going to talk about how to drill down your unique selling proposition or

0:56.5

your USP, Neil, first and foremost, what is a USP?

1:01.4

It ends up coming down to like, what's a sentence?

1:04.4

What's a paragraph that ends up really explaining how you're unique?

1:07.9

What makes you special?

1:09.3

Why people should end up working with you or buying your product versus someone else?

1:13.9

But in essence, it's what makes you stand out and what makes you differentiated from

1:17.7

your competition.

1:19.2

At one of our events, we had April Dunford, who's the author of obviously awesome.

1:23.2

And she's kind of known as the expert of positioning, especially in the world of software.

1:27.5

And I remember she shared a story around how, when she first started working at one company,

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