The harness · 01 / 09

Positioning

Make your value obvious to the buyers who care most.

The problem it fixes

Sound familiar?

  1. 01

    Your leadership team describes the product five different ways.

  2. 02

    Sales loses more deals to "do nothing" than to any competitor.

  3. 03

    Swap your logo onto a competitor's homepage and nobody would notice.

What I draw on

The playbooks behind it.

April Dunford

Obviously Awesome

Five components: competitive alternatives, unique attributes, value, best-fit customers and market category, built from the customers who love you.

April Dunford

Sales Pitch

A pitch that opens with a market insight and why the alternatives fall short, before it ever mentions the product.

Your CRM

Closed-won evidence

Positioning built from who actually buys, stays and expands, not from opinions in a conference room.

Frameworks are public. The harness applies them to your business using your data, your customers' words and judgment from three exits, then checks every output against the same standard.

What the harness does

What actually happens.

  • Interviews your best-fit customers and the deals you lost
  • Runs two leadership workshops to agree on alternatives, unique value and category
  • Writes the positioning canvas and a sales narrative your reps can use
  • Spells out what changes on the homepage, in the deck and in targeting
Checked before it ships
  • Every value claim has proof behind it
  • CEO and sales lead sign off in writing
  • A busy buyer gets it in five seconds

What you keep

Yours, documented.

  • Positioning document and canvas
  • Sales narrative
  • Competitive alternatives map

When it happens

Diagnosed in the Fear Audit. Built in days 1–30 of a fractional engagement.

Tell me what you're avoiding.

30 minutes with me, not a sales rep. You'll leave knowing whether your problem is strategy, systems or capacity, even if we never work together.

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