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    The 7-step story-led positioning framework behind the top B2B SaaS companies

    Take the exacts steps that businesses like Gong, Drift, Slack, Salesforce follow to craft your strategic narrative, positioning and messaging.

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    To be heard, you need a compelling story

    To be heard, you need a compelling story

    There’s only one thing worse than alienating an audience - being ignored altogether. With over 25,000 SaaS companies world-wide competing for the same accounts, it’s essential to differentiate yourself and properly position your company. Because if you don’t, you risk irrelevance.

    Your customers are demo-fatigued. No one has the brain capacity to remember one more unique way to, “Kill the Excel spreadsheet” or, “Seamlessly sync your data”. They’ve seen SaaS companies with interchangeable features over and over again. Even the most unique product isn’t alone on the market for long.

    What does this mean for up and coming startups ready to compete in an oversaturated market? For one, that old-school positioning statement you found on Google is simply not good enough anymore.

    So how do you stand out in this sea of sameness?

    So how do you stand out in this sea of sameness?

    With a strong message and solid positioning strategy, your audience will listen. In fact, they’ll be enthralled.

    Strategic stories that strike at the heart of a customer base aren't just for Apple and Nike. To reach your audience, convert ads and become a category leader, your company needs one too.

    That’s where Kurve comes in. We help you craft a captivating story through audience research, positioning and messaging. We use a proven B2B SaaS framework and business storytelling techniques that have been tried and tested by the world’s most successful companies.

    Let’s write your story together.

    Case studies

    Coconut
    Case study
    How Kurve Helped Coconut Stand Out as a Business, Connect with Customers and Position their Brand for Success

    Launched in 2018, Coconut’s ultimate goal is to make self-employment easier than being employed....

    ScreenCloud
    Case study
    How differentiating from same-sounding competitors while meeting the needs of complex buying committees allowed ScreenCloud to dominate its market

    While ScreenCloud was able to capitalise on its early-mover advantage and establish itself as one...

    Relata
    Case study
    A customer-centric rebrand supercharged Relata’s sales efforts and brought clarity across all customer touchpoints

    Relata was established in 2015 out of its founders' frustration with the existing tools that sales...

    Helping founders discover their voice

    Helping founders discover their voice

    Kurve’s Positioning and Messaging team works with venture-backed B2B Saas startups and scaleups ready to leave a mark on their industry.

    Through our data-based marketing strategies, we define your audience, learn about their wants and needs and create a bespoke positioning and messaging strategy that will fuel your long-term growth.

    Kuldeep Thakur

    Kuldeep Thakur

    Founder & Managing Director, InspireXT

    I enjoyed working with Lena recently, and I can't recommend her highly enough. Lena is the epitome of professionalism, from the outset, she committed to thoroughly understanding our business challenges and needs. Lena's meticulous attention to detail and tireless work ethic are standout qualities. Working with Lena is an absolute pleasure; she combines a sense of urgency with a calm and methodical approach, ensuring projects progress efficiently without feeling rushed. She possesses exceptional collaboration skills to bring everyone along, respecting and incorporating diverse viewpoints. What I particularly appreciate about Lena is her honesty and flexibility. She offers practical and pragmatic guidance, making complex tasks manageable and always steering the project in the right direction. Her contributions have been invaluable, and I am genuinely grateful for her positive impact on our project.

    David Libertalis

    David Libertalis

    Founder @ Visii

    I've had the privilege of seeing firsthand the immense talent and care that Lena brings when guiding organizations to find their unique strategic narratives. Rather than simply offer answers, Lena masterfully asks questions that lead you to uncover profound clarity you didn't realize was there. She has a gift for listening with genuine curiosity, distilling issues to their essence, and reflecting insights that resonate deeply. Lena helped transform not only our strategic messaging, but also how we at Visii think about ourselves. She equipped us with a north star narrative framework to guide decisions and value propositions going forward. Unless you have specifically undergone an in-depth strategic narrative design process, you likely underestimate its necessity. And without someone of Lena's caliber to facilitate, you risk remaining oblivious to half-baked positioning. In today's crowded markets, a resonant story that weaves together purpose and strengths is indispensable for companies to breakthrough. We feel fortunate to have worked with a true master in unlocking our version of this story. I highly recommend Lena to any leader seeking to articulate their organization's reason for being.

    Michelle Golding

    Michelle Golding

    Founder, Experience This

    Lena has been invaluable in helping me to understand who my core customer is and how to effectively position my business for success. I can already see huge improvement in our success rate and look forward to seeing what happens after all learnings are implemented.

    Marc Munier

    Marc Munier

    Founder & CEO, Ditch Carbon

    Lena is a true pro. Working with her we quickly identified ways to improve our messaging and are reaping the rewards already. She has a deep understanding of how messaging works and is able to articulate her point with real life experiences which always brings the point she is making to life. If you get a chance to work with her on your messaging... don't hesitate.

    Laura Avonius

    Laura Avonius

    Founder & CEO, Audicin

    We worked with Lena on our storyline creation and positioning. It helped us a great deal in understanding who our main target groups are and how we stand out from our competitors. Our positioning is now specific and clear, and our messaging is on point and relevant.

    Tom Glason

    Tom Glason

    Co-Founder & CEO, Scalewise

    I took part in Lena's new positioning workshops and found the content to be excellent. Lena has clearly put a lot of effort into creating the videos and developing a format for the workshops that ensures clients can create a compelling narrative for their company. Highly recommended.

    Katia Nazmutdinova

    Katia Nazmutdinova

    Founder, Encelo

    Lena has helped us build strategic marketing foundations by focusing on the customer research and the positioning narrative. Our messaging has made a difference in our fundraising efforts and is making a difference in how we engage with our customers and the positive response we are getting. Working on our strategic marketing foundations is one of the most important investments I’ve made as a founder.

    Johan Friedner

    Johan Friedner

    Marketing Lead, ScreenCloud

    I worked with Lena during a recent positioning and messaging assignment. Despite a tight deadline, Lena was quickly able to extract customer insights from our team and use the research at hand to identify key pain-points for stakeholders involved in the buying process of our product. She was able to turn her research into 4x in-depth messaging frameworks for our defined buyer personas which now help direct all our sales and marketing messaging, from emails to our website. Would highly recommend her for any marketing strategy projects.

    Sam O’Connor

    Sam O’Connor

    CEO & Co-Founder, Coconut

    From the outset, Lena brought strategic thinking to the positioning project. She had a number of well-defined points that we worked through diligently and quickly, which made it very clear what we needed to get done. That structure really enabled us to have a clearer view of where we needed to get to, and set the flywheels in motion to finalise all the aspects of our marketing strategy.

    Patrizia Cozzoli

    Patrizia Cozzoli

    VP Corporate Development, Strategy Team, LanSweeper

    Lena and her team have been very professional in running our qualitative research. We have treasured their recommendations and started implementing them. Highly recommended to get valuable insights to adopt a strategic approach to marketing.

    Jonathan Gans

    Jonathan Gans

    Co-Founder & CEO, Kahana

    Lena did an incredible job giving us the right tools and teaching us how to craft a compelling narrative that truly captures our mission and clearly articulates how we help our customers. She has a unique ability to help take various pieces of disconnected information and crystallise them into a clear and concise positioning and messaging framework.

    We’ll make sure you get through the noise

    Our positioning and messaging strategy will ensure your brand voice is unique, enticing and reaches the right people. We can:

    Use data-led research to help you understand your audience to avoid wasting money on guesswork and A/B tests that lead nowhere

    Help you differentiate yourself from the competition and create a unique voice for your company

    Help you articulate the value of your product to the right audience

    Boost sales by ensuring you know how to approach your buyer

    Leave your audience hanging on your every word

    What it means to nail your positioning & messaging:

    With the right messaging, your brand’s voice will consistently resonate with your audience, which will be reflected in your sales.

    Your positioning is key to standing out amongst your competition. Your customers will know exactly why they should buy your solution today.

    A clear, consistent message will ensure you have a powerful brand voice, which is important when converting customers.

    Clear positioning brings your sales, marketing, customer success and product teams together, uniting them by one goal centered around your customer.

    Increasing brand recognition – one step at a time

    Step 1: The research brief
    At the start of the process, you’ll share everything there is to know about your business and target audience. This information will inform the interview guide needed for step 2.

    Step 2: Interviews begin
    Once the interview guide is ready, interviews will begin to help get answers about your audience's pains, frustrations, needs, wants, and desires.

    Step 3: The reveal
    Once your company research is complete, you’ll get a thorough overview of our findings.

    Step 4: The first workshop
    We begin crafting your strategic narrative.

    Step 5: Workshop number 2
    Refine your story.

    Step 6: Constructing the message
    Expect lots more questions as your messaging is crafted.

    Step 7: Messaging framework and copy writing
    At this point, you’ll receive your messaging framework. A copywriter (either ours or yours) will then work on turning it into your website and sales collateral copy. Expect magic.

    Step 8: Copy implementation
    The approved copy will be used in all your assets and your website.

    Step 9: Validation and iteration
    This is when you can ensure that the right message is reaching the right customer. You’ll be able to review audience feedback and assess the campaign.

    Pricing

    Guided Process

    £5,195

    For bootstrapped founders who have time to do it themselves, but need a bit of guidance

    • Step-by-step personalised plan on how to craft your story-led positioning and messaging
    • Access to training materials (on demand videos that walk you through the framework)
    • Access to B2B examples and case studies
    • Story-led templates for your sales deck and outbound emails
    • 3 personalised sessions to work on your story-led positioning and messaging together. We examine your case and go through the process taking all your market particularities into account

    Guided Process + G2M Assets

    £9,850

    For founders needing help with their sales and marketing resources

    • In addition to what you get with the Guided Process option, we take care of your sales and marketing assets to make sure you’re implementing your strategic work right away:
    • Your home/landing pages is written by an experienced B2B conversion copywriter
    • Your sales deck is written and designed by a specialist B2B SaaS team
    • Your story-led converting cold outbound email copy is written by seasoned sales and marketing professionals

    Leave it with me

    From £20,850*

    For time-poor founders who'd rather get external help. I do it for you (with your input).

    • Audience Research
      - Interviews with your target audience
      - Distilling insights
      - Delivery of findings to your team
    • Story + Positioning
      - Working with you through the story
      - Crafting and positioning process every step of the way
      - Delivery of the narrative and your positioning document
    • Messaging
      - Delivery of your messaging framework for each segment
    • G2M Assets
      - Delivery of your sales deck
      - Delivery of your outbound email copy (sequence of 4-5 emails)
      - Your updated landing page copy
    • Validation & Iteration
      - Testing your strategic fundamentals with target audience (tests with wynter.com + getting it in front of target customers)

      *Final fee will depend on the number of buyer personas + industries we’ll need to cover
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