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