Competitive Strategy Lesson: How to Build a Competitive Matrix

FREE Lesson

In this free lesson, you'll learn how to create a competitive matrix for your business, giving you a better understanding of your market and a useful marketing tool.

What you'll learn
  • Understand why you need competitors
  • Identify who your competitors are
  • Segment and track your competitors
Includes
    6 Videos
    1 Quiz
    33 min
  • Inbound Sales
Lesson description
The competitive matrix is a graphic that highlights your unique strengths vis a vis other players in the space. The visual snapshot is easy for investors to parse — but it’s more than a pretty picture. As you identify your most relevant strengths and how you stack up against competitors, the process of developing a competitive matrix gives you a greater understanding of your market and your business, and a valuable marketing tool. This lesson will cover how to identify the most relevant strengths to plot on your graph, how to identify and evaluate competitors on the matrix, and how to position your business as a market leader.

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Instructors

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Ken Burke

Ken Burke, founder and CEO of The EntrepreneurNOW! Network is a speaker, serial entrepreneur, mentor, and author. Ken founded MarketLive, a market-leading, enterprise class eCommerce software platform used by major merchants generating $2b annually in online sales through the platform. He sold MarketLive to Vista Equity Partners in 2016. Ken authored the book, “Prosper - 5 Keys to Thriving in Business and Life" which will be release Jan 2021. Ken has also published hundreds of articles and…

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