Competitor Battlecards
Two-page “cheat sheets” depicting key competitive advantages for the benefit of internal and partner sales personnel.
The competitor battlecard is the most commonly used competitive sales tool for internal sales personnel and external channel partners. It’s essentially a custom, two-page “cheat sheet” that educates your sales personnel about how to defeat your closest competitors.
CyberEdge customizes competitor battlecard templates for each customer based on preferences on style and content. Customers review a selection of existing battlecard templates and chooses sections they feel are most relevant, including:
- Silver bullets (three advantages you want sales people to memorize)
- Vendor approaches
- Solution components
- Key capabilities comparison
- Our advantages
- Competitor advantages (with proposed responses)
- Competitor FUD (with proposed responses)
- Competitor land mines
Outsourcing customer win-loss interviews to a reputable vendor include:
- Customers are more likely to participate, as there’s no fear of a hidden sales call.
- Loss customers are more likely to speak to a third-party market research agency than the vendor they rejected, as they may fear the rejected vendor might try to change their minds.
- Loss customers are more likely to be “brutally honest” about the vendor they rejected when speaking with an independent third party.
- Working with an experienced competitive analysis vendor may uncover more insights, as they may pose questions you never thought to ask.
Laser Focused on Cybersecurity
Unlike our competitors who may serve airlines, banks, and restaurant chains, CyberEdge is 100% dedicated to serving cybersecurity vendors. Our consultants average 15-20 years of cybersecurity industry experience with subject matter expertise across virtually all cybersecurity industry segments, including network security, endpoint security, cloud security, identity and access management, security operations, and more.
Strong Technical Foundations
Our competitive analysis consultants have technical backgrounds as cybersecurity practitioners and/or as consultants serving cybersecurity vendors for a couple of decades. Unlike many our competitors, our consultants have the technical chops to understand the questions that they’re asking and go off script based on the customer’s response to a given question. You’ll gain far deeper insights by working with CyberEdge than any other vendor.
Full Portfolio of Competitive Analysis Services
Most of our competitors offer one or two of the services that we offer. We offer a portfolio of six competitive analysis services, not to mention dozens of other marketing, research, and publishing services. CyberEdge is your one-stop shop for all of your competitive analysis needs.
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“Over the years, Tenable has worked with several CyberEdge consultants for content development, custom research, competitive analysis, customer webinars, and multimedia. I’m consistently pleased with CyberEdge’s results. It’s rare to find a vendor with such deep bench strength.”
~ Ron Gula, Co-Founder & CEO, Tenable
