i) If your CRM is not yet on HubSpot, or needs consolidating first, migration is scoped and priced before Systems begins.
ii) Not included: your website, which is a separate project. See website design
iii) Before this step, the £3,500 Commercial Diagnostic fee is deducted from this price, where one has run. See the diagnostic
iv) The walkthrough is 45 minutes and covers all five steps. Nothing is quoted on the call.
STEP 2: COMMERCIAL POSITIONING
THE CASE FOR CHOOSING YOU
Commercial positioning for contract manufacturers, documented so the case does not rest on who is in the room on the day.
FROM TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
TO COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGE
In complex markets, expertise that isn't communicated commercially can't be evaluated, so the decision defaults to price. Commercial positioning structures it into a case buyers can act on.
COMPANIES THAT TRUST US
WHAT YOU END UP WITH
The documented output ready for the business to use and for the systems that follow.
Market clarity
Where you create distinct value, and how you compare.
Buyer and decision logic
Who decides, on what criteria, and where a supplier gets ruled out.
Positioning strategy
Why you are chosen, rather than interchangeable.
One commercial narrative
A single story marketing and sales both work from.
Channel implications
What the position now asks of your website and everything else you publish.
Structured source material
Your positioning written down in a form that other systems can use.
THE PROGRAMME
The expertise that wins your contracts already sits inside your business, usually spread across engineering, sales, and leadership, and rarely written down in one place. An external agency cannot research its way to it. So we work through it with you in facilitated sessions, in person or online. Your team supplies the substance. We structure it, challenge the assumptions, and document the result in a form the whole organisation can use.
Defining commercial value drivers
Defining commercial value drivers
Clarifying buyer logic and decision criteria
Clarifying buyer logic and decision criteria
Establishing differentiated market positioning
Establishing differentiated market positioning
THE WORK RUNS IN FOUR PARTS
This structured material is what the knowledge base in Commercial Systems is built from.
1. WHERE YOU STAND
We establish a baseline before anything gets designed. A short questionnaire captures where the team sees the position today, and we run our own research alongside it: how you are currently presented, and how the suppliers you meet in tenders present themselves.
How it runsQuestionnaire, then Equinet research, then a one-hour session with the same team that ran the Commercial Diagnostic.
What it produces
A documented starting position, and a competitive picture of where you are distinct and where a buyer would struggle to tell you apart. The competitive work carries forward into part three, where it is presented in full.
2. WHO YOU ARE FOR
Which customers produce profitable growth, and how the people inside them decide. We work through the buying committee together: quality, procurement, engineering, and finance each weigh a supplier differently, and each can rule one out on their own.
How it runs
A three to four hour workshop with marketing, sales, and leadership, in person or online. Each additional sector adds a session.
Defined customer profiles for the sector, with the buying committee mapped behind them: who is involved, what each role is accountable for, and what they need to see before they will support a decision. Alongside that, the criteria a supplier gets judged on, the points in the process where one gets ruled out, and where in the buying cycle a supplier is worth pursuing.
3. WHY YOU ARE CHOSEN
This is where technical fact becomes commercial argument. A five-axis machine and an ISO 13485 cleanroom are facts any competitor with the same schedule can list. What those facts let a customer do is something no competitor can copy from a spec sheet, and it sits with your engineers, programme managers, and quality leads rather than in a marketing department.
How it runsTwo sessions. The first opens with our competitive research and works through where you hold ground the market cannot easily match, over two to three hours with the same team. The second turns that into the value case, the narrative the business tells, and how it should sound. It runs to half a day.
What it produces
A positioning strategy, a value proposition mapped to what each customer profile is trying to achieve, one commercial narrative the whole business works from, and a documented tone of voice so that what gets written sounds like the business rather than like whoever wrote it.
4. HOW IT GETS USED
A position only holds if the people using it understand why it is what it is. We work with the people who sit in front of buyers, so the case can be defended in a live conversation rather than read from a page. We gather the documentation the business already holds: technical specifications, certifications, regulatory approvals, and the standards the work runs inside. Then we compile it all into a structured form.
How it runsA questionnaire to sales and business development, then a two-hour workshop with them. The documentation is gathered in parallel with whoever holds it. The compilation work is ours.
What it produces
Messaging and proof points, with technical evidence attached to each claim, so sales and marketing work from the same understanding rather than the same document, and what the position now asks of your website and everything else you publish. That, with your technical and regulatory documentation, compiled as structured content rather than a deck, which is the form HubSpot's context layer reads and the reason output built on it stays accurate.
FEE AND TIMELINE
£15,000 (+VAT)
1) Four to six weeks from kick-off to a documented position (subject to diary availability).
2) Priced for one sector, with up to three buyer personas within it. Each additional sector is £2,500.
3) We have run these workshops for over fifteen years. The Engine they feed is new, and only became buildable as HubSpot's platform matured.
Five or six facilitated sessions, plus the research between them
The positioning strategy, value case, narrative, and tone of voice, documented
Proof points with the technical evidence attached to each claim
Your technical and regulatory documentation gathered and compiled, ready for HubSpot
BEFORE YOU BOOK:
Equinet’s programme gave us a far clearer understanding of our customer decision makers and the pain points that matter most to them. The process challenged our assumptions and sharpened our thinking. As a result, we made fundamental changes that have significantly strengthened our marketing strategy and lead generation.
WHY IT MATTERS
BEFORE THE PRICE CONVERSATION
By the time a buyer asks for a price, the shortlist is set, and the criteria are written. This paper sets out what determines whether you are on that list, and what it takes to be judged on more than rate.
THE METHODOLOGY
THE COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE
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01 Step 1 of 5:
Commercial Diagnostic
A 90-minute workshop that gives your leadership team a clear, shared view of how the commercial system is actually performing.
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02 (THIS PAGE) Step 2 of 5:
Commercial Positioning
Facilitated sessions that surface why customers choose you, who you are for, and the technical and regulatory boundaries the work runs inside.
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03 Step 3 of 5:
Commercial Systems
A governed knowledge base that keeps AI-generated content accurate, on-message, and consistent with how you actually win business.
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04 Step 4 of 5:
Commercial Data
One shared source of qualified data, so marketing and sales stop working from different pictures of the same accounts.
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05 Step 5 of 5:
Market Amplification
Account-based campaigns that reach the accounts you name, and answer engine optimisation so buyers researching without you read something verified.
why work with
equinet media?
HubSpot Solutions Partner since 2011
Outstanding customer rating
Customer retention rate on HubSpot
Years delivering for customers on HubSpot
WHERE TO START
Whether you want to talk about your growth goals or our methodology, here's how.
CONTACT US
You know your goals. If it would help to talk through how we could support that, send us a message, and we will reply within one business day.
THE WALKTHROUGH
Forty-five minutes Commercial Engine walkthrough, one step at a time. You leave with a one-page map of what is already in place and where it makes sense to start.