John Rougeux Bio and Show Notes:
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbrougeux/
B2B Growth Podcast Co-Host
FlagandFrontier.com Category Design Strategist
Book Recommendations to get 1% better:
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
- Marketing High Technology by William H. Davidow
7 Category Design Business Strategy Criteria & What CD is Not:
- Category Design Isn't Necessarily Being First to Market
- Category Design Isn't Winning Awards on Gartner, G2Crowd, or Forrester
- Category Design Isn't a Gimmicky Slogan or Advertising GTM campaign
- Don't Vilify Something that is Good at Another Context as Nemesis to base Category Design
- There Has to Be a Significant Business Pain Identified by your ICP or Buyer Personas
- You Should Be Able to Solve a Problem in Meaningful way Not Just Surface-based, but Deeper
- You Need Buy-in from CEO/Founder C-level stakeholders To Launch a Category Design Business Strategy