Unique Selling Point: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: Unique Selling Point

  • a specific feature that differentiates a product from similar products.
  • Abbr. USP

Additional Resources

Do You Have a Selling System?
Does every salesperson have a unique style of selling? Are they just trying to hide from accountability under the cover of individual "style"? Or is there some other explanation? More importantly, should a company allow every salesperson to have their own style, or should it have system for selling...
Tags: Article, Style, Salesperson, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2000-01-01
Power Strategies For Distribution Salespeople
Selling for a distributor puts in a unique selling situation. While many basic sales principles still applied, there are additional, unique challenges rising out of the position as a distributor salesperson. If a person sells many of the same things the competitor sells. Add to that the special potential for...
Tags: Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sales, Management, Job, Recruitment & Selection, Article, Sales Strategy
White papers 2000-01-01
What's your Unique Selling Proposition?
Developing a unique selling proposition is about creating a distinction between you and your competition. The challenges facing distribution are coming faster and with greater impact than ever before. Globalization, e-commerce, integrated supply and consolidation are all changing the competitive landscape. As customers learn about the opportunities these challenges offer...
Tags: Supply Chain, Proposition, SCM, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Globalization, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Your Unique Selling Proposition: Use It Or Lose It
Unique Selling Proposition USP is a technique for communicating in an overcrowded marketplace. USP works because of a simple fact of cognitive behavior. One of the ways the human mind handles the barrage of advertising it receives is to pick something to believe, then hold that notion until forced to...
Tags: Productivity, Unique Selling Proposition, Microsoft Corp.
White papers 2003-01-01
Best-Selling Authors and Publishing Houses Publish Unique Content with MightyWords
Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 16, 2000 MightyWordsTM, the definitive digital marketplace for the written word, today announced the availability of unique, compelling content from best-selling authors and major publishing houses alike at www.mightywords.com. MightyWords offers readers everywhere the ultimate channel to...
Tags: B2B, Business Wire, E-business/E-commerce, INTERNET, MARKETING
Research articles 2000-03-16
Product Demos That Proves : The Art of Dramatizing Your Unique Selling Proposition
In the trade show world of face-to-face selling, nothing turns a show-me skeptic into a believer faster than a convincing demonstration. Presentations only tell a story. Demonstrations prove a point. The difference is worlds apart in style, technique, and credibility. Presentations often are theatrical, fun, even interactive and engaging. They...
Tags: Demonstration, Productivity, Branding, Marketing, Presentation, Difference
White papers 2003-01-01
Management Lessons From Modern Wars
During hard economic times, it is expected that consumers look for bargains and be less concerned with amenities and companies respond with low prices and plain products and services. The drive for aesthetic value is creating opportunity throughout the supply chain. Aesthetics, or styling, has become an accepted unique selling...
Tags: Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2003-01-01
Unique Marketing Proposition (USP)
This article says that Unique Selling Proposition is a marketing term used by the big companies to describe what sets them apart from their competition. Provide an excellent product or service that lots of people want and treat your customers very well. Read on to know more.
Tags: Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
Ad speaks for itself
No need for a lengthy critique of this one. Although "unique" as a modifier is overused to the point of becoming meaningless, this truly is a unique way to describe a restaurant's food. C. O. Jones restaurant is located in New Haven, Conn., near Yale University.
Tags: advertisement, critique, Manufacturing, Yale University
Research articles 2007-04-30
ROAD TEST NISSAN CUBE: One way to get you noticed: the cubist school
"UNIQUE" IS a word that gets pedants very excited. It must not be qualified, you see. You must never say, or write, that something is "almost unique" or "nearly unique". Nor must you hype "unique" with such adjectives as "quite" or "utterly", those being quite superfluous and mannered. Something is...
Tags: Branding, Cube, Fiat, MARKETING, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
Research articles 2004-03-16
Brand Leader Or Also Brand? A Compass Point of Difference
Decision points on brand development happen early and often in emerging companies. Building a business, becoming profitable, maintaining that profitability, and energizing the workforce are imperative for your company’s survival. So is staying ahead of the competition. But as the business grows, with new customers and new products, the definition...
Tags: Brand, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
A Career In Selling
It is said that selling is an art! Not everybody can sell. Selling involves painstakingly succeeding in getting a patient hearing from the prospective customer and driving home the sale. Maintenance selling involves careful cultivation of existing relationships with customers while developmental selling calls for locating new customers and selling...
Tags: Career, Professional Development, Wright State University
Presentations 2003-01-01
Stuffed rabbits for Putin a hot item in Russian markets
MOSCOW AFP ? Stuffed rabbits singing a pop song proclaiming their love for Russian President Vladimir Putin are selling like hot cakes in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg. The Chinese-made furry toys costing 140 rubles five dollars apiece have been all the rage in local markets for the past...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Manufacturing, Moscow, president, rabbit
Research articles 2004-01-14
Maximizing Channel Performance
The days when selling through third-party channels were simple are long gone. As more and more providers come to realize the many advantages of selling through these channels, the landscape of channel partner selling has become dramatically more complex. To get the most out of this market, suppliers need to...
Tags: Sales Force Management, Sales, Marketing, Channel Management, Miller Heiman, Sales Strategy, Performance, Channel
White papers 2007-11-01
Making commitments.(Selling Point point-of-sale supply-chain management proposal software from Concentra Corp.)(Software Solutions)(Brief Article)
00-00-0000 MAKE ACCURATE DELIVERY COMMITMENTS at the point of sale for engineer- to-order or assemble-to-order products with Selling Point laptop-based sales configuration and proposal-generation software from Concentra Corp., ... 00-00-0000 MAKE ACCURATE DELIVERY COMMITMENTS at the point of sale for engineer- to-order or assemble-to-order...
Tags: point-of-sale, SCM, supply chain
Research articles 1995-11-20
Suddenly, the euro matters to Labour's heartlands
TWO INDUSTRIAL decisions expected this week are of huge importance to many thousands of workers in the North-East and South Wales. But that is only one of the reasons they will have an immediate impact in a pre- election period. The other is that they can hardly fail to affect...
Tags: Government, Manufacturing, Mr., Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
Research articles 2001-01-23
Public Speaking And Selling From The Stage - 5 Tips For A Great Introduction For Your Presentation
In public speaking the aim is to sell from the stage. You may be selling a product, a service, an idea or your point of view but, makes no mistake, you are selling. Many think that the sales pitch comes at the end of their presentation. The truth is that,...
Tags: DiscoveryArticles.com, Public Speaking
White papers 2008-05-25
Collaborative versus Traditional Selling
The article makes the comparison between collaborative and traditional selling method. Collaborative selling overcomes the unhealthy, tension-laden sales environment. It is not a new bag of tricks. There are no surefire gimmicks. In fact, it is a fresh look at some very long-standing and respected techniques used in clinical psychology,...
Tags: Sales, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Productivity, Article, Environment, Technique
White papers 2003-01-01
Person Bringing In The Business
If one is interested in setting up shop on the Internet to promote the service, there are some simple strategies discussed in the article that will help a . While almost all the selling and traffic generation techniques work equally well for both product- and service-based business models, there are...
Tags: Service, Internet, Productivity, Strategy, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
5 Ways To Improve Online Cross- & Up-Selling
Cross-selling is selling an additional product to existing customers, usually related to what they've already bought. Up-selling is selling a better but usually more expensive product to customers, after they've decided on a cheaper product. Cross- and up-selling isn't difficult as you're selling to people who want to buy -...
Tags: Product, Customer, Webcredible, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2008-06-01
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