DEFINING YOUR “UNIQUE SELLING PROPOSITION” (USP)

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In marketing, there is what is called the Unique Sellingthe other person? To be more precise, what truly is
Proposition (USP). It is a major tool at the disposer ofunique and special about you that no one can resist?
the marketer in order to differentiate and positionThe number of possible USPs is virtually innumerable,
itself effectively from its competitors. Somebut it’s your onus to identify which it is that
marketers position their products on the bases ofyou possess. And when you find it, maximize it to
price, durability, quality, user friendly and so on, as itsthe brim. Now, your potential is your USP. It is your
USP.unique strength, gift, and talent, which no one can
What about you as a person? What sets you aparttake from you in the market place. It is really what
from others? What is your “area ofsells you. It speaks for you even before you talk.
excellence”? If you were to be viewed as a