Digital positioning plan
Quantify The Presence Of Your Business Unit
Relative To Key Competitors
Your Digital Due Diligence Blueprint for M&A Success
Align your team’s marketing, sales, and service efforts with a positioning plan
A digital positioning plan empowers you to identify opportunities, discover threats, and uncover growth strategies through a 5-step digital due diligence process. Quantify your online presence relative to key competitors, gain valuable insights, and optimize your digital performance with this acquisition advisory report.
Your Digital Positioning Plan Includes
Analysis Across These 5 Due Diligence Areas
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Section 1: Digital Competitive Matrix
Section 1 is designed to answer the question, "How effective is your competition?" This portion of the report includes:
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A comparison of three to five known competitors identified by your team
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An additional two to three potential competitors we identify using digital search data.
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A matrix comparing your competitors' digital KPIs relative to your performance.
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Section 2: Analyze Go-to-Market Strategy
Uncover how effectively your business’ competitors use their digital presence to expand their market and generate leads. Gain insight into questions such as:
- Does the competition have a well-functioning digital lead gen process?
- Can their market strategy help them expand nationally or internationally?
- Do they effectively execute low-cost digital lead generation & qualification methods?
- Does the competition have a well-functioning digital lead gen process?
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Section 3: Identify Valuable Existing Digital Assets
Section 3 is designed to answer the question, "What are your business’s digital assets actually worth?"
Understand the value of your existing digital assets and how they can be used to accelerate value creation significantly.
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URL domain authority
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Redirect opportunities
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Website technical issues
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Digital website content
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Social media assets
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Digital video assets
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Section 4: Audit the Lead-to-Cash Platform
For Section 4, your sales and senior management teams are interviewed to understand how prospects and customer data flow through the digital lead-to-cash pipeline to reveal upsell opportunities. This includes an analysis of the following:
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How effectively is the present lead generation process working, and how can it improve?
- How effectively are new leads captured, stored, and qualified?
- Are marketing, sales, and service aligned to maximize revenue opportunity?
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Section 5: Pre-Acquisition Timeline & Budget Planning
Section 5 is designed to answer the question, "How can your business act on revealed opportunities?"
This report includes a lead-to-cash strategy with a spin-up timeline and a budgetary estimate that can be used in your business’ ROI analysis.
“Open Path is a valued partner that we utilize with most of our acquisitions. The insights they provide on competitive positioning, lead generation, and opportunities for revenue expansion are direct inputs into our investment thesis during the due diligence phase and help to shape our integration plan post-acquisition.”