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Positioning

Four firms, one website

Open the sites of four development companies in the same city side by side. Most people can't tell them apart. Neither can their buyers — and that has a price.

The test

Take any four technology services companies in Ahmedabad, open their homepages in four tabs, and cover the logos. Try to work out which is which from the copy alone.

Almost nobody can. Same services list, same promise about scalable cost-effective solutions, same photograph of a team pointing at a monitor. None of it is false. All of it is interchangeable.

When a buyer can't tell you apart, the only variable left is price.

Why it happens

It isn't laziness. It's that the website gets written by asking what we do rather than who we're the best choice for — and the honest answer to the first question really is the same as everyone else's.

The second question is harder and nobody wants to answer it, because answering it means giving something up. Being the best choice for a specific buyer means being the wrong choice for several others, and that feels like closing doors when the pipeline is already thin.

What to do instead

Pick the segment where you already win more than you should. Not the one you wish you had — the one where your close rate is quietly better and you don't quite know why. That's usually where the real position is hiding.

Then write the site for that buyer only, and let it repel the rest. The firms I've watched do this properly lose some enquiries in month one and win better ones from month three.

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