The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.
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What sort of quality message is it sending, especially when compared to your competitors?
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And you can view it by location, job role, and compare it to your competitors.
Of course there are always unexpected events, product recalls, and crises for you or your competitors.
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And how and when do they actually engage with your company (and your competitors)?
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Discussions about your company are taking place about you and your competitors all the time.
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But the final result is something your competitors will find almost impossible to duplicate.
This raises an important decision in your sales presentation strategy: should you mention your competitors?
Adopting good ideas pioneered by your competitors is how Silicon Valley has worked for decades.
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Consider, too, that the perceptions that you create will be compared to those of your competitors.
Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?
Moreover, why should people be choosing you and your firm over all your competitors?
"A scheme that limits what your competitors can bring to market helps the entrenched competitors, " she says.
First, what is the market you are attacking, and how is your product different from your competitors'?
Second, the feedback could take you in another direction, or serve as a barrier to your competitors.
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If you put off risk, the decision will be made for you by your competitors and your customers.
There is no way that dollar amount computes other than to buy market share to crush your competitors.
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You want to get better placements for your quotes than your competitors get.
The question then being, well, would raising wages in order to damage your competitors be described as acting ethically?
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If your competitors are in denial, smile to yourself because you have identified a competitive advantage to steal their customers.
You want to give the reporter so many great quotes that you squeeze your competitors entirely out of the story.
Patents and copyrights won't mean a can of warm beer when a market is global and your competitors reside offshore.
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Doing so may give you deeper insight into the motives, conditions and possible moves of your competitors, suppliers, regulators and customers.
When you know that you are ahead of your competitors, you feel good and you are ready to take the challenge.
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Therefore efforts designed to improve share of wallet that do not address precisely why your customers also use your competitors are doomed.
Of course, the news media will appreciate you if you trash your boss, your competitors or especially yourself, but nobody else will.
All your competitors are, of course, doing the same, depressing prices further.
Why go now, rather than several years ago when your competitors did?
Similarly, when thinking about competition, you can't just model out where your competitors were last year in terms of pricing and service.
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