April 28, 2026

Position of Market Dominance Revisited

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Michael Barbarita of Next Step CFO and Powerful Business Strategies will discuss Position of Market Dominance Revisited. We are going to review the best strategy to get the prospects attention.

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Positively Pipeman segment that we do every Monday, and our

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resident business expert is with us once again, so welcome

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to the show. Michael Barbarita.

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How are you fantastic? Thank you for having me.

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Dean, You're like my next step CFO hero. And today

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we got we have to revisit something because it's so

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so important and it's one of my favorite subjects. So

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let's talk a little bit about position of market dominance.

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We're gonna revisit this because we've talked that before, but

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let's expand on it.

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Yes, yeah, I think we talked about it back in

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July and Augustine, so I thought I would bring it

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up again because you know, getting attention is difficult, a B.

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Not competing on price, it's difficult. The mindset of many

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business owners out there, it's all about price. The whole

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world of all is around price with them, and it

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takes a while to really understand how value can take

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over from price. But you know, one of the ways

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that we found have been really effective in terms of

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getting not only attention, but making price irrelevant and getting

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creating more value for the customer. And that is what

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we call a position of market dominance. Now, in order

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to understand position of market dominance, you have to understand

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that the key to successful marketing is getting into the

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mind of the prospect. But how do you do that?

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I mean, it's easy to say, but how do you

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do that? And so what we found is that there

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are two major emotions that gets into the mind of

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the prospect. The problem the customer has it doesn't want

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the solution they want they can't find and that and

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and that helped us create what we call the conversion formula. So, uh,

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and the and the position of market domin it happens

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to be the first two components of the conversion formula.

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So let me go through the conversion formula again. And

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that is so the first step of the formula. And

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you got to follow the formula in this exact order,

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otherwise it doesn't work because this is the way the

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mind works. Yeah, the formula is positioned the way the

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mind works. So the first step of the formula is

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what we call captivate. Captivate is a headline or the

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first thing you say or that your prospect sees when

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they come in contact with your brand. It's the problem

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that the customer has and doesn't want, and so that's

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the first step. The second step we call fascinate. Fascinate

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is the solution, your solution to that problem that they

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can't find. So the combination of the captivate and the

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fascinate is what we call a position of market dominance.

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The more positions of market dominance that you could create,

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the more value will be given to the to the

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to the prospect and making making getting their attention number

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one and number two making price irrelevant. So those first

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two components captivate, fascinate, that's your position of market dominance.

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The third step is educate, where you now educate the

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customer on why your solution is superior. And then the

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fourth step is the close, and that's where you have

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to uh relate to the prospect an offer that's so

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compelling and so irresistible that they can't turn it down. Now,

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with respect to that, we have separate shows on compelling

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offers so that you understand what a compelling offer is.

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But the real value here is understanding how to create

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that position of market dominance, and nine out of ten

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times a good position of market dominance has to do

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with how you solve an industry problem. For example, contractors

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never call you back, you know, that's one example.

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I have one of those examples right now.

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Yeah, Or or they don't show up on the day

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they say they're going to start the job, or they

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stop the job and then ghost the job for three

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or four weeks and way, it's just.

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My daily life you just talked about right there.

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So it's these types of situations that are top of

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mind to a prospect. Yeah, they you know that that

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it's these types of situations where they are they are

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they know that this is kind of commonplace. But what

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are you going to do to solve that particular problem?

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And that's where the position of market dominance is the

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most effective, because if you could provide guarantees around showing

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up on time, and this is just an example for that.

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For the trades, it's not you know that there's millions

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of problems that customers perceive about a number of different industries.

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But I happen to be picking on the trades. But yeah, so,

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but but if you could guarantee, uh, make make some

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type of financial guarantee associated with showing up on time,

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associated with calling back, associated with uh, you know, once

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we start the job, we're not gonna leave. That has

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incredible value above and beyond price and so and then

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when you're guaranteeing it where you're actually giving them the

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financial benefits. If you don't follow through with these promises,

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it just makes it so much more compelling. So the

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conversion formula and the position so position of market dominance,

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which is the first two components of the conversion formula,

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and have multiple positions of market dominance, and we can

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help you create those. Multiple positions of market dominance is

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the big separator between competing on price and offering value

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that makes price irrelevant. And get people's attention.

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Well, and that's a key thing. That's the thing you

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got to do first is catch people's attention.

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Right and then but so our research has shown that

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you have to get into the prospect's mind. Then you

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do that through identifying the problem that they have. They

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don't want, solution they want they can't find. And the

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beautiful thing about the conversion formula two, it follows a pattern.

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The first two components are the emotional to the emotional components,

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the problem and the solution. The third component is the

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logical This is the way we solve this problem. And

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that's the logical component because people buy based on emotion

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and then back up that emotion logically, and so the

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formula follows that exact pattern, that psychological pattern.

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I love it and sales is a transfer of.

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Emotion, righte absolutely, And so that we found that when

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clients do it right, you could do it wrong. By

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the way, let me give you an example of doing

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it wrong. So a painting company would say, you know,

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the problem the customer has is they can't pick the

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right color paint. Well, unfortunately, every painter can pick the

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right color paint. There's really no no real and there's

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no way to really guarantee make a guarantee to back

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up the claim you'll make sure that the client picks

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the right color paint, you know, unless you got to

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do the job again with a different color paint and

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for free, you know that kind of thing. So there

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are certain problems that people think they you know, customers have,

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but if everybody can solve those problems, that's not a

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position of macket dominance, right right, So you have to

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you have to identify. But there are there are many

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problems that the industry has that business owners simply ignored

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and if they really thought about it, what the perception

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is of the customer and how they can solve that

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problem and lots of times it can be solved with

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a simple guarantee. As long as you have the skill

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set to be able to deliver on that, then it

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works incredibly well totally.

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So, how do people reach out to you to get

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some more insight and beneficial advice for their business?

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Well, I'd like to give them a little template, Dean.

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So if they go to NEXTTEPCFO, dot net, forward slash contact,

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fill out the contact form and put in the message

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set section PMD Position of Market Dominance PMD, I will

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give them a template that will help them evaluate their

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own position of market dominance.

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Nice. Well, it's always a pleasure dealing with you and

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having you on the show, because, man, you got some

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of the best business advice and people definitely need to

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reach out to you. So everybody reach out to Michael

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no matter what your business issue, solution, whatever you need.

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Michael Barbarita from Next Step CFO is your guy. And

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thank you once again for helping our listeners.

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Thank you, Dan, I'll be that. Thank you for listening

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