ConvergingWater provides expertise in:
Messaging
- Positioning
- Features and benefits
- Content for collateral, data sheets, white papers, presentations, etc.
- Determining you unique selling proposition
Sales Tools
- Presentations
- Demonstrations
- White Papers
- Content for collateral and websites
- Scripted and self-running demos
- FAQs
Product or Service Launch
- Writing marketing and launch plans
- Creating collateral
- Crafting messaging
- Training
- Managing PR, press and review programs
- Managing press tours
- Building success stories and customer testimonials
Market Analysis
- Identifying and sizing target markets
- Determining markets that are appropriate for your company's unique talents
Customer & Market Research
- Customer research to determine critical features required for your products
- "Quick" surveys and customer interviews to rapidly and inexpensively validate ideas
- Market research through secondary research sources such as analyst firms and industry experts
Competitive Analysis
- Ensuring you have an accurate and non-biased picture of your competition
- Helping you determine whether to enter a market based on the current competitive environment
Product Definition
- Writing market and product requirements documents and defining products
- Giving engineering teams clear and concise information about customer needs
- Prioritizing feature sets into must have, nice to have, and next release
- Developing short and long-term product roadmaps
Engineering Team Support
- Determining feature versus schedule tradeoffs
- Making difficult feature decisions
- Deciding whether products are ready for first customer ship
Beta Site Management
- Writing early customer success stories
- Gathering initial product feedback
- Securing early customer wins to validate approach
Pricing
- Overall strategy
- Pricing matrices
- Discount levels & special pricing for education & other markets
Packaging and Shipping
- Defining and managing all in-box components
- Creating product packaging
- Working with operations to create bill of material and manufacturing plans
Other Services
- Strategic planning
- Management consulting
- Personnel (sales and marketing) review, search, retention
- Executive coaching