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Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It Paperback – 14 May 2019
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- Publisher : Ambient Press (14 May 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 202 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1999023005
- ISBN-13 : 978-1999023003
- Dimensions : 13.97 x 1.3 x 21.59 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 5,041 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"April Dunford is the master at positioning and bringing B2B tech to market. Obviously Awesome pulls together two decades of her experience into a brilliant step-by-step book that actually shows us how to do positioning, rather than just talking about it--with great examples and a few chuckles along the way."
--Rich Mironov, CEO and product management guru
"In this valuable book, April Dunford proves that products can be transformed by changing their context. Obviously Awesome is a must-read for any founder, marketer, or salesperson struggling to make their product stand out in crowded markets. We spend a lot of time talking about product and engineering, and not enough time thinking about marketing and positioning--this book can help change that."
--Kirk Simpson, co-founder and CEO of Wave
"Three years ago, April Dunford contributed invaluable work for Redgate, helping us position our company around a reframed area with more growth opportunities and a bigger mission than we had before. Since then our revenues have grown substantially, in part due to our better positioning. In her new book, Obviously Awesome, she provides an easy-to-understand framework for you to do your own positioning work. If you run through her 10-stage process and give yourself the chance to allow the scales to fall from your eyes, you'll improve your positioning and ultimately, your product."
--Simon Galbraith, CEO of Red Gate Software
"April Dunford is the thought leader across the country and beyond when it comes to marketing and positioning for startups. She has an uncanny ability to see well ahead on how tech companies will be perceived by their users and customers, and has incredible insights for founders as they launch and scale their startups."
--Sunil Sharma, Managing Director of Techstars Toronto and co-host of Collision Conference
"Great positioning is an unbeatable advantage. But you're probably doing it wrong. This book fixes that, offering a clear roadmap that businesses of any size can use to find and communicate their unique advantages on their own terms."
--Alistair Croll, founder of Solve for Interesting and bestselling author of Lean Analytics
"Positioning. Is. Hard. Really hard. But April Dunford gets it better than anyone I know. Candid, deeply knowledgeable, and--just as she is onstage--obviously hilarious. April is a master storyteller, and if you liked her keynote talk, you are going to love this book."
--Oli Gardiner, co-founder of Unbounce
"April Dunford's two decades of marketing leadership in large companies and small give her a unique perspective on positioning. This how-to guide is a must-read. Before you spend a dollar on sales and marketing, read April's book on positioning."
--Renny Monaghan, VP Solutions at RingCentral
"Obviously Awesome is the playbook for making your market category work for you instead of against you. If your product is hard for customers to figure out, this book is for you."
--Mark Organ, founder and CEO of Influitive, founder and former CEO of Eloqua
"April Dunford may know more about product positioning than any person alive and her deep, practical experience shines in this book. Witty, thoughtful, and genuinely useful, Obviously Awesome is the must-read bible on positioning. If your product is hard for customers to figure out, this book is for you."
--Rich Emrich, CEO of Altus Assessments
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It's enabled me to create a draft of my team's product positioning and then collaborate with the rest of the company leaders to progress it. This book turned positioning from something we talked about into something we can apply and action for ourselves.
I valued the 10 step positioning process, particularly step 1 understanding the customers who love your product, and step 6 mapping attributes to value themes
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This book has long been needed in the space of product positioning. It challenges the value of the traditional positioning statement!and instead proposes an alternative step by step process, with an emphasis on team input and on challenges preconceived ideas on yur product category and target users. It is an easy read, and certainly worth the investment if you are reviewing the product positioning of your current product portfolio.
Recommended reading for Product Managers and anyone else who writes product positioning statements that they don't ever get referred to again.


I read this book over one weekend and then used the step-by-step process to run some sessions with my colleagues to figure out of positioning challenge. We were able to identify some laziness in our previous thinking and the tools in the book helped us to steer clear of our default positioning.
I would recommend this book to anyone needing help with product positioning, particularly in a B2B environment.

The book's greatest strength is that it helps you see positioning through the eyes of a customer, rather than from your position inside a company. That sounds like an obvious thing to do, but it's different from the way most other texts are written, and it's certainly different from what most companies do. For example, when she talks about your product's differentiators she makes the point that internally, we know who our competitors are far better than our prospects do - so if our benefits are to resonate we need to compare ourselves to a more realistic group of alternative options.
I've followed April Dunford's blog for years and she deals with real issues (the successes and the failures) because she's done this type of work first hand, many times. But this is not an assembly of blog posts, it's a coherent approach, with skills, tactics and templates that makes you think differently about positioning, and most valuably - do it in a way that's better for your customers.

Over the years I picked up different tips and 'ways of doing things' from various senior marketers I worked with, stitching together my own process for positioning. It's worked but it always felt a little hacky.
April takes a process often shrouded in mystery, usually hidden behind a pretty useless positioning statement exercise, and articulates a clear, actionable framework for positioning any product. I can already tell my positioning work is about to improve.
I can't wait to apply some of the ideas in my everyday work.