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How to Position Your SaaS When You're Not a Category Creator

DEV Community·Jake·24 days ago
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Category creation is the positioning strategy that gets the most LinkedIn posts and works for the fewest companies. When Drift coined "conversational marketing" in 2016, they named a problem the market had not yet labeled, built a content movement around that name, and trained buyers to evaluate the space using Drift's vocabulary. When HubSpot's co-founders coined "inbound marketing" starting around 2006, they executed the same play: defining an enemy (outbound interruption tactics), creating a term buyers adopted, and building the INBOUND conference to institutionalize it. Both plays worked. Both required years of category education investment. Both required leadership who could function as evangelical thought leaders. And both happened when the problem genuinely had no established name. Your product probably does not meet those conditions. That is fine. There are four other positioning archetypes that are just as effective when structurally matched to your product's DNA.…

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