Market of One
Outperformance
Outperformance is being dramatically better on a dimension the customer already uses to compare options.
Speed, accuracy, reliability, completeness, or ease. Outperformance beats the comparison rather than removing it: it wins on a variable the customer already shares between the options.
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Related concepts
Reframing
Reframing is changing which comparison applies: the category, the success metric, or the problem the purchase is framed around.
Bundling
Bundling is the arrangement of Value elements into a configuration that makes direct comparison with available alternatives difficult.
Market Alternatives
The full set of courses of action available to the customer instead of this offer.
Market of One
A Market of One exists when an offer is sufficiently distinct in the customer's decision that no readily substitutable alternative provides the same relevant configuration of Value.
How this concept behaves
Qualitative relationships from the framework registry. None of these are formulas.
Outperformance · wins shared variable · Best Alternative
Outperformance wins on a variable the customer already shares between options.
Outperformance · wins shared variable · Market of One
Outperformance can produce a Market of One by winning so decisively on a dimension the customer already compares that the Best Alternative stops being a reasonable substitute.
Where this concept is treated at length
Market of One: The Gate to Value-Based Pricing
A Market of One exists when no readily substitutable alternative provides the same relevant configuration of Value. How reducing substitutability lets Value, rather than category Price, become the basis of the customer's choice and of pricing.
Outperformance
Being dramatically better on a dimension the customer already uses to compare options.
Where to use this
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