16 Companies Who Absolutely Nailed Their Unique Value Proposition

So what sets you apart? 

That's why your unique value proposition (UVP) is so important: it quickly and accurately conveys what you have to offer. One of the first steps we take with clients on our way to 10x growth is to settle on the UVP.

Learn more about our 10X Growth Marketing philosophy.

Explaining your UVP as quickly and accurately as possible ensures your website visitors understand how you can help them. 

The best way to convey it quickly and zaccurately is to find a UVP headline that accomplishes its purpose in the fewest words possible. While details are important, communicating that you can solve my problem is a higher priority than how you will solve my problem. 

16 Companies That Nailed Their Unique Value Proposition

To clearly communicate your UVP to new website visitors, it's important that it is clearly understandable within the first few seconds of them landing on the site. It should communicate both what you do, and how you benefit the customer or solve their need.

These 16 companies have absolutely nailed their UVP headline.

Outreach.io

Being clear about who your solution is for is paramount when it comes to an effective UVP. Outreach does a fantastic job combining a clear niche of “remote sales world,” attracting sales professionals who use internet tools to optimize their sales process.

They take it a step further by implying that their solution solves the problems that sales folks encounter, that closing a deal takes time. Offering “close deals faster” as a solution builds on the desire of a salesperson to reduce the sales pipelines more quickly.  

The simple formula of (1) identifying their target market and (2) including their motivation makes this UVP a winner.

Graphcore.ai

Here’s another example that follows a similar format of identifying the target market and including their primary motivator. 

Graphcore … ”Our IPU let’s innovators make new breakthroughs in machine intelligence.” Innovators by itself would be too broad, but the second part of the UVP is where they nail it down,” new breakthroughs in machine intelligence.” 

Graphcore structured their UVP to serve as an overarching frame that speaks to their diverse offerings. This isn’t easy to do well with companies that have many products. 

One thing to note is that each product can and most likely should have individual UVPs. We see when we look at one of their products, the IPU-M2000+IPU-POD4. The UVP for this product is “Core building blocks for all AI infrastructure at scale. 

These two examples demonstrate the flow that website visitors should take. An effective UVP will immediately capture a web visitor’s attention, then guide them to the next logical step through a call to action.

Convert Kit

The most effective UVP’s are short and straightforward. Convert Kit’s is “The creator marketing platform for your book.” A UVP doesn’t always have to spell out precisely what the product or service is. Hitting the nail on the head with the emotional drivers is sometimes all you need. Convert Kit does this by alternating the end of their UVP to various creative projects like a book, album, or podcast.

Convert Kit addressed a central goal of creatives—communicating with their fans easily and growing their fanbase. Convert Kit associates with the goal shared by artists, musicians, and creatives, which is why folks of this ilk gravitate towards their platform for lead generation.

CXL

Being concise is difficult. As Mark Twain said, “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Effective UVP’s are similar—the best ones are usually the shortest. But to find the right words, as simple as they appear, takes effort. 

Many make the mistake of being cute or too clever with their UVP, which usually confuses or dilutes the message. CXL, a marketing company offering elite training, is an elegant company with a surprisingly simple UVP: “Become great at marketing.” 

Any marketer who wants to increase ROI from their marketing efforts understands the implicit meaning of getting better at marketing their business. It means more revenue.

Another pattern that CXL does well is adding a short description that refines their UVP. For example, “Get the world’s top practitioners as your instructors” is a head-turning hook that makes the value of CXL jump off the digital page.

Outschool

Here’s another ultra-simple example of an effective UVP and CTA combination. Any parent or teacher knows how challenging it is for kids to enjoy learning subjects like reading or math. Outschool addresses this pain point upfront with their UVP: “Where kids love learning.” 

Every parent wants their kids to learn and enjoy it at the same time. Outschool’s UVP seems to promise a miracle and one that is worth trying out. UVP combines the parent’s desire to support their kids and to create an enjoyable experience for learning.

Blue Apron

It’s impossible to write a killer UVP without knowing exactly who it’s for. Blue Apron does a rock-solid job with “delicious recipes delivered to your door.” It appeals to a broad audience (Who doesn’t like delicious food?) that like convenience, frequently use online services, and want to cook.  

Many marketers struggle to attract their ideal customers. Developing a UVP is similar to suggesting a product or service to a friend that you know intimately. A well-crafted UVP goes beyond getting a click to your CTA. Instead, it’s a sign, much like a flag, that lets an audience know they’re in the right place.

Everysign

Eversign’s UVP is straightforward and useful: “Legally binding electronic signatures at work, at home or on the go.” For those that can’t stand paperwork, this could be a life-saver. The scenarios you’d use the service come to mind, which is a feature of effective UVP. By placing the user in the context of when they need the service, it feels familiar. 

It also works in reminding the web visitors of the frustrating times when they’d have to do things the old-fashioned way and get a signature. Visitors quickly see the value based on their past experiences.

Beycome

You can think of your UVP as a split-second elevator pitch, getting to the point as quickly as possible. Beycome is no exception, with “buy any home, get 2%*cashback!” in bold letters on their homepage. They follow it with a simple search field to buy, sell, or option a property, and you’re able to start searching for a property with a zip code. 

How could a homebuyer resist after reading their UVP? They get cashback if they purchase a home? Sounds terrific, and it’s not limited to a type of property? What’s the catch? A UVP that gets the audience to ask an unstated question is highly effective. It means that it’s done its job to catch attention and ask for more information.

Now they may think, do I need to look anywhere else? Beycome’s UVP focuses on homeownership and simultaneously takes away part of the risk of losing money by offering a cashback.

Tidal

In a landscape full of music streaming services, Tidal caters to those that prefer the best quality. Many people do not, preferring convenience or familiarity over an underdog. By specifying that they offer “clearly the best sound,” they reconcile what many audiophiles hold as their sole criticism of digital audio—degraded sound quality. 

With Tidal, people who enjoy analog gear like records and turntables have a place to turn if they want the best possible audio quality when it comes to streaming audio. It’s not for everyone, but targeting their group allows them to focus on building a loyal following. 

Tidal knows it will never compete with Apple Music or Spotify on the same playing field. That’s why they created a brand identity around refinement rather than pure utility.

Masterclass

Who would you want to teach you to cook if you were searching for online classes? A random instructor or Gordon Ramsey? Masterclass makes it clear with "learn from the world's best" that you have the opportunity to learn new skills from some of the world's most successful leaders in their field. 

When developing a UVP that serves a broad audience, if it excites and makes one wonder, who wouldn’t want that, it’s effective. So instead of putting superfluous text to explain how their programs work, they reinforce their UVP with tiled images of the instructors you’d be learning from. 

Combining the images placed strategically next to the UVP leaves no doubt the value you’d get from their content. They let the words speak for themselves without having to add complicated bells or whistles. You’re Getting lessons from famous experts. Simple. Exciting. And a unique choice when someone wants to learn a new skill.

Coursera

Equally as powerful, but taking a different approach, Coursera UVP is “learn without limits.” When taken together with their brief description, it’s clear that one can earn college credit and skills that can serve them in their current job or help them move into a new career.

What’s different here is the focus of the UVP, targeting a person who wants a career change or academic credit for an advanced degree. Masterclass, mentioned above, also targets online learners, but primarily hobbyists. Coursera’s UVP pinpoints professionals looking to develop skills for career advancement.