How it Works

How ValueArcTM Works

What if you could increase your company’s value by next quarter? And what if you could do it without launching an amazing new product or service? With ValueArc, you can – by unlocking the hidden value that’s already in your business, and releasing it with the power of positioning.

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For more than a decade, the ValueArc™ System has helped tech and B2B companies – from startups to the Fortune 500 – identify their most valuable and often hidden assets, and market them to increase sales, gain market share or boost company value for an IPO or acquisition.

BRIDGING THE "VALUE GAP"

Unless your company is the rare exception, your customers, sales channels, employees, vendors, partners, assorted analysts and industry watchers will have a perception of your company that may be totally different than that of your management team. There may even be different opinions regarding your company’s market role within your own management team. This "value gap" directly impacts the perceived value of your company.
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It helps You

1
RESEARCH

Your greatest market value is not found merely in your existing products. It could be hidden in your strategic relationships, service methods or vision for the future. ValueArc can help you identify your most valuable intangible assets.

2
REPOSITION

Odds are there’s a perception gap in your marketplace. If you’re not positioning yourself properly, the market will position you – by default. ValueArc can help you claim the most favorable position to maximize your brand value.

3
REBRAND

Once you’ve strategically repositioned your business, how do you launch your messages into the market? ValueArc can deliver a powerful brand architecture with compelling visual elements that elevate your messages.

4
REACH

Projecting your value to the market requires an understanding of the many avenues for communication. ValueArc provides a high-level campaign architecture for reaching your audience in the most effective and efficient way.

WHY IS THE "VALUE GAP" IMPORTANT?

Here’s the deal: if you don’t position yourself properly, the market will position you by default. From a confusing mix of perceptions, your company might be reduced to the lowest common denominator. And unless you take control, that’s how your market position (and your value) is defined – by customers, analysts, bloggers... people who don’t understand your value potential.

Even though it’s largely the result of market perception, this “value gap” is real. It makes it harder for you to compete and grow, to sustain profitability, to attract talent, and to achieve market leadership. ValueArc is designed to close that gap – and it starts by unlocking the hidden value that’s already in your business.

The most successful companies are not just valued on earnings. For most, the majority of value is found in their "intangibles." For the S&P 500, it’s over 70%. What intangibles can fuel your growth?

The ValueArcTM System

What companies need now more than ever is a top-down approach to marketing - one that creates clarity and consensus around your value, and provides a simple blueprint for maximizing it. Now there's a proven system that can help you uncover your true business value, and leverage the power of marketing and branding to realize unprecedented growth. ValueArc is designed to help businesses of almost any size discover their unique value and map the way to their most effective market position. The end result of the ValueArc System is a customized ValueArc "Blueprint", which can be used to guide your marketing and branding efforts.

How does ValueArc work?

1. It starts by assessing the fundamental differences between the two market positions:

Your default (or commodity) position:

  • is tactical in nature
  • projects a "me too" role in a crowded market space
  • is focused on functions and features
  • subjects you to constant price competition
  • tends to be transaction based
  • implies fleeting value to customers
  • translates into low company value

Your ideal, maximized position:

  • is strategic in nature
  • projects a differentiated/unique market role
  • is vision/objective focused
  • tends to be relationship based
  • implies enduring value to customers
  • translates into high company value
2. It helps you define your strategic relevance to the market by clearly mapping your assets to specific unmet market needs of customers – you make it possible for the market to recognize your company’s strategic role and value.
3. It forms the engine to power your marketing and sales strategies by providing:
  • a fresh inventory of your company’s assets that defines their combined value to the marketplace
  • a hierarchical framework for organizing the newly defined positioning into an approved “story line” that helps assure message continuity and
    discipline throughout the organization
4. And it aligns and amplifies the impact of marketing and sales activities – to lift you to your maximum value
  • Corporate and product branding
  • Press and analyst communications
  • Web strategy and digital marketing
  • Partner/channel development
  • Lead generation
  • Sales acceleration and support
  • Customer marketing

How does ValueArc boost strategic business value?

A strong brand has the power to create business value well beyond gains in revenues and profit margins. It can:
  • help avert downward price spirals to commodity levels
  • decrease the cost of entry into new markets and categories
  • help attract and retain talented staff, partners, vendors, etc.
  • accelerate sales cycles
  • reduce the cost of sales
  • enhance customer loyalty and longevity
  • command premium prices
  • raise the barrier to entry for competitors
  • maximize company value
What kind of challenges are you facing that would make ValueArc beneficial to your company?
  • Recent merger or acquisition?
  • New product launch?
  • The need to reposition an existing product?
  • Entry into a new market?
  • New management or ownership?
  • Competitive pressures?
  • Changing distribution structure?
  • Emergence from financial stagnation or bankruptcy?
  • Falling market demand?
  • Positioning for an acquisition?
  • Positioning for an IPO?

Your Journey Begins at the ValueArc Basecamp:

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ValueArc Discovery

Discovery helps you gather and organize critical information and opinions about your business and market through interviews, secondary research, surveys and studies from analysts and other credible, third-party sources.

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ValueArc Value Pillar™

A unique, guided session with key company stakeholders, the Value Pillar process helps create concensus around your company’s core market claim, and collect the inventory of attributes that support a strategic position.

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ValueArc Messaging Pyramid

The Messaging Pyramid translates the elements of your positioning architecture into a hierarchal framework, giving you a succinct “story line” to assure message continuity and discipline across your communications.


It Continues with ValueArc Ascent:

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Brand Audit

ValueArc Ascent begins with a deep brand audit and analysis. The includes web-based surveys and research to help determine your perceived strengths and weaknesses within your market – and where brand opportunities exist.

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Brandscape

The “brandscape” delivers a competitive analysis of your visual marketplace and provides fresh strategies and recommendations for standing out – from color to graphics to typography and more.

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Brand Architecture

The brand architecture is your blueprint for delivering your brand to the market. It includes a “brand ecosystem” of applications, including identity solutions, website homepage and collateral templates, a brand guide and more.


It Peaks with ValueArc Horizon:

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Opportunity Assessment

ValueArc Horizon starts with an inspection of the opportunities that exist for reaching your market. Who you are trying to influence or convert? What actions do you want them to take? And what are the overall goals and budgetary parameters?

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Campaign Architecture

Once the opportunities have been identified, a campaign architecture is developed – helping you determine the essential elements of a complete campaign, and how these components relate to each other in an integrated strategy.

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Go-to-market Blueprint

Your go-to-market blueprint is your “magna carta” for delivering your campaign to the market. From media strategies to channel recruitment to sales acceleration programs, your blueprint will help you build it all.

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A WORLD-CLASS TEAM TO GUIDE YOUR JOURNEY

The ValueArc Basecamp Discovery, Messaging & Positioning program is a highly-customized consulting engagement that includes detailed discovery research, interviews, a comprehensive on-site session with key management, in-depth synthesis and analysis, and a detailed presentation of a recommended messaging and positioning architecture.

Led by Kitt Hancock and a team of seasoned professionals, the ValueArc Basecamp Program has been proven time and time again by B2B and technology companies - from startups to the Fortune 1000. Our team has been been instrumental in helping dozens of businesses achieve their goals for growth, including increased sales, greater market share, an initial public offering or even an acquisition. No matter what the objective, our ValueArc guides have seen it all – and can help you get there. To explore the Basecamp product in greater detail, click here.

The ValueArc Ascent Branding Architecture delivers a complete branding blueprint for your business. It analyzes your brand’s strategic potential and maps a unique “brandscape” for standing out in your marketplace. Our team of award-winning designers and creative experts will help craft a unique brand ecosystem that can be used by your internal staff and partners. To see a complete breakdown of what’s included in the Ascent product, click here.

The ValueArc Horizon Campaign Architecture constructs a comprehensive campaign architecture unique to your needs – from media planning to channel recruitment to sales acceleration and beyond. Our direct marketing, media and channel teams – as well as our affiliate partnerships – have decades of experience building programs that penetrate, convert and nurture relationships across the market spectrum. Whether it’s broadcasting to millions or laser-targeting a single lead, we can build the right program to deliver success. To learn more about our Horizon program, click here.

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“ValueArc not only delivered greater clarity around our messaging and positioning – it gave us a world-class branding and creative platform that helped raise our visibility in the market. ”

Lesli Smith

VP of Marketing and Communications, APCO - EasyCare

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START YOUR EXPEDITION

Whatever crossroads your business is facing – a lack of growth, flattening sales, a fragmented channel strategy, even emerging from a bankruptcy – ValueArc can help your business find the value gaps. And once we bridge them with the power of branding, you can build the right kind of campaign strategy to support and sustain your success.

If you’re ready to conquer the mountain, contact us today. Because of the popularity of our programs, ValueArc engagements are limited, and scheduled several weeks in advance. To get started, fill out the form below and ValueArc guide will contact you to set up your program.

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ValueArc - A DaynerHall Company
621 E Pine St
Orlando, FL 32814
Kitt Hancock
(407) 428-5750

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