Use this worksheet to develop and align your product’s launch messaging and positioning. It helps articulate the core narrative, benefits, differentiation, and feature-level messaging needed to resonate with your target audience.


Messaging overview

| Launch Messaging:

Include the existing messaging you are reinforcing with this launch, along with the core launch message.

Launch narrative

Use this section to describe the customer context and the story your launch tells.

Target Audience Who is the product for?
Undeniable shift in customers’ world What external changes or trends impact your customers?
Impact of this shift How have these changes affected your customers?
How the audience should adapt What actions or mindset shifts are needed?
Why adapting is hard What barriers or challenges do customers face?
Product solution How does your product help customers overcome these challenges?

Launch messaging

Core Message This should be a 1-2 sentence message that stems from your narrative/solution
Messaging Pillars Pillar #1 Pillar #2 Pillar #3
Benefit Description
Differentiation
Proof Points

Feature-level messaging

Use this section to clearly articulate messaging for each key feature included in the launch (assuming there is more than one).

| Feature | What it does (summary of capability) | Why it matters (value delivered) | Who it’s for | Market perspective on feature | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Feature 1 | | | | | | Feature 2 | | | | | | Feature 3 | | | | |


Validated copy examples

Include sample copy that has been tested and validated with target users, demonstrating effective ways to communicate key messages.