Comments on: Four Ways to Take Advantage of Your Competition’s Success

By: Success Factors

Success Factors — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:15:53 +0000

[...] 15: Four Ways to Take Advantage of Your Competition’s Success (archive [...]

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:51:44 +0000

your welcome.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:17:22 +0000

@Derek

Wow. Taught me something new =)

Thanks.

By: How to Be a Novice and Join the Newly Successful

How to Be a Novice and Join the Newly Successful — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:15:01 +0000

[...] gives everyone a voice and if you’re not participating, good! They don’t want to use your success for their gain [...]

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:56:49 +0000

@ Trevor Doing number 4 or number 2 is not as difficult as you think. For example, if you go to google trends and you see a new hot search term. Just take a look at the companies who rank for it in Google and see how you can get your name on their website. You can leave a comment, buy an advertisement, or whatever you want. Just make sure its a value buy.

By: Urs E. Gattiker

Urs E. Gattiker — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:27:03 +0000

I love to use the surfboard and ride somebody’s wave as you put it… my question is just if the additional traffic helped your bottom line. It probably did

Nevertheless, because of this I developed a tool (in alpha) that makes it easier to keep score against a few other bloggers and their social media efforts compared to yours. Signup, enter your URL then their URLs and start benchmarking – watch the trends.

I hope you all check it out

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:16:03 +0000

@Derek,

Little finesse? What do you mean?

By: John Lessnau

John Lessnau — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:39:48 +0000

Excellent post. Instead of stewing over a competitors success – build on their success. Sometimes it hard for some to take the emotions out of business.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:35:18 +0000

@ Trevor It’s not as hard as you think. Sometimes it just takes a little finesse.

@Your Friendly Neighborhood Computer Guy – That’s great market research. That’s how the big corporations do it so you might as well do it too. Nice job.

By: Your Friendly Neighborhood Computer Guy

Your Friendly Neighborhood Computer Guy — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:33:25 +0000

Great points! I’ve been used this tactic to set prices for my new computer consulting business. I called up every single computer consultant in my local phone book and asked them questions about their services and pricing, as if I were a customer. I got some great informaton, some new ideas, and most importantly, I found some holes in there services that I can fill with mine.