Messaging Strategy Consulting | This Is Copy
Ben Watkins
Ben Watkins · This Is Copy

Your buyers can't tell you apart from everyone else

That's not a branding problem. It's a research problem. I dig into what your buyers actually say, find the positioning only you can own, and build messaging that makes the right people pay attention.

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30 minute call · No pitch, just diagnosis

Sound familiar?

This is what B2B tech teams say when messaging breaks

Real quotes from founders, CMOs, and product marketers. If you recognize yourself in any of them, that's the signal.

"Our messaging is way too generic. We try to speak to three personas and probably speak to none of them clearly."

B2B SaaS founder

"We've been having a hard time explaining what exactly the product does. Our elevator pitch clearly didn't work."

SaaS co-founder

"We spent $42K on agencies and then realized our positioning was broken the entire time."

Marketing lead

"The more we marketed our features, the weaker our brand felt. We kept adding more and it just made things worse."

B2B founder

"Marketing says one thing. Sales says another. The website says a third. It sounds like five people wrote it."

B2B marketing director

"Reps are booking demos but qualifying fewer than 30%. Proposals are going quiet more than they should."

SaaS sales leader

The problem is never "we need better copy."
The problem is nobody did the research.

The guide

I've seen this pattern across dozens of B2B tech companies

The company raised. Hired a team. Shipped fast. Then somewhere around Series A or B, growth stalls and nobody can explain why.

The product works. The team is strong. But the website sounds like the competitor's. The sales deck gets rewritten before every call. The emails read like they were pulled from a template library.

The problem isn't talent. It's that nobody stopped to figure out what actually makes you different. From your buyers' perspective, not your product team's.

That's the work I do. I mine what your buyers say, find the positioning only your company can own, and translate it into messaging your entire team can use.

The plan

Three steps to messaging that sells

I do the heavy lifting. You supply the expertise. The whole engagement is built to move fast and ship real work.

1

Mine your buyers

Sales calls. G2 reviews. Reddit threads. Competitor teardowns. I find the language your buyers use when nobody from your company is listening. Then I map the openings your competitors leave wide open.

2

Align your team

I walk your team through the research. Not opinions. Data from real buyers mapped to messaging opportunities. We go from "we think the problem is X" to "the data says the problem is Y." Direction locked before a word is written.

3

Ship messaging that works

Your positioning and messaging strategy gets translated into assets your team can use immediately. Not a deck that lives in Google Drive. Real messaging, built from buyer language, ready to deploy across every touchpoint.

What's at stake

Two versions of your next twelve months

Without it
Your homepage tries to be everything to everyone
Sales rewrites the pitch before every call
Competitors sound identical to you
Messaging decisions made by committee from product docs
Visitors bounce because they can't tell if it's for them
New features ship. Messaging stays stale.
With it
Buyers recognize themselves in the first line
Sales uses the same story because it actually works
You own a position nobody else can claim
Messaging backed by buyer language and competitive gaps
The right people lean in. The wrong ones self-select out.
Messaging architecture that evolves as you scale
Results

What happens when you get the messaging right

"He absolutely overdelivered. His campaign drove multiple first meetings, a lunch and learn, and pipeline activity. 10/10 would recommend."

Britt Prim
Chief Commercial Officer, Karis Health

"He was a patient and clear guide to supporting Altitude at a critical inflection point in our commercial growth. The team loved working with him!"

Prabhjot Singh, MD PhD
CEO, Altitude

"Every piece had a clear strategy behind it. You weren't just creating content, you were creating it with purpose. Never cookie cutter."

Valerie Ray
Marketing Director, Focus Health Solutions

"Ben has changed the game for our demand gen emails. He quickly learned our industry, our customers, and our needs. Higher clicks, opens, and deals."

Sycle
Audiology Practice Management

"His advice on emphasizing our unique selling proposition significantly clarified and enhanced our site's appeal. His focus on specificity set our offerings apart."

Nour Lababidi
Founder, TeleMedicX

"Working with Ben elevated our brand's messaging, thanks to his narrative crafting and understanding of our goals. The collaboration was seamless and impactful."

Danny Grannick
Co-Founder, Bristle Health
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Stop sounding like everyone else.

If your buyers can't tell you apart from the competition, the messaging is the problem. Let's fix it.

Work with me

30 minute call · No pitch, just diagnosis