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Category Creation

The strategic move of defining a new market category and positioning your company as its default leader.

In depth

Play Bigger's framework. Salesforce did it with CRM/SaaS, Drift with conversational marketing, Gong with revenue intelligence, HubSpot with inbound. Requires committing 60%+ of marketing spend to category evangelism, not product marketing.

Related terms

Thought Leadership
Original, opinionated content from named executives that shapes how a market thinks about a category.
GTM
Go-To-Market, the full system of how a company acquires, sells to, and expands customers.
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