Competitive Strategy Lesson: Learn How to Understand and Analyse Your Competitive Landscape

FREE Lesson

In this free lesson, you'll learn why having competitors is important for every business and how to define, segment, and track your competitors.

What you'll learn
  • Convince investors your company excels against the competition
  • Identify your company's strengths
  • Plot your competitors on a competitive matrix
Includes
    8 Videos
    1 Quiz
    41 min
  • Inbound Sales
Lesson description
Contrary to popular belief, your business should have plenty of competitors. Thriving competition shows you’ve pinpointed a viable market. Defining and segmenting your competitors helps you better articulate your company’s unique value, while reassuring investors that your offerings will fill an existing need others recognize as an opportunity. In this lesson, we’ll delve deep into the competition, with strategies for identifying and evaluating competitors and classifying them to discern where opportunities lie to fill gaps in the market.

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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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