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How do you stay on top of competitors when it's a crowded market and things are changing every day?

Sarah Din
Former SVP of Product Marketing at Quickbase4y
Here are some ways I've tackled this with my teams: It is important to establish a cadence for your competitive research. How often is actually achievable based on your ...
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Grant Shirk
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Cisco Campus Network Experiences | Formerly Tellme Networks, Microsoft, Box, Vera, Scout RFP, and Sisu Data, to name a few.4y
This is going to sound like a product management (not marketing) answer, but if things are truly moving that quickly -- new competitors, new use cases, new feature requir...
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Marina Ben-Zvi
Atlassian Product Marketing Leader4y
Similar to an earlier question: (1) define and tier your competitors, (2) determine the competitive assets you need, (3) set your cadence, (4) invest in a Competitive Int...
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Ambika Aggarwal
Ironclad VP of Product Marketing4y
There's no silver bullet here because this really does involve setting aside time, especially when CI is not the only part of your job. You can set aside 1-2 hours once a...
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Christina Lhi
Kit.com Head of Marketing3y
Ongoing: Google alerts to get pushed industry and/or competitive content, subscribing to your competitors lead gen lists, reading earnings call transcripts. From existing...
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Harsha Kalapala
AlertMedia Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly TrustRadius, Levelset, Walmart3y
There are many ways to stay on top of competitive intel. If you have the budget and a clear use case, use a tool like Klue to help gather intel, and disperse it in your e...
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Andrew McCotter-Bicknell
Apollo.io Head of Competitive Intel3y
Limit the competitors you track to ~8 - 10 of the TOP competitors that are impacting revenue most. Yes, we should still be keeping a pulse and maintaining awareness of o...
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Jeffrey Vocell
Panorama Education Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Narvar, Iterable, HubSpot, IBM3y
Oftentimes the day-to-day of changes can be "noisy", so try to not get too caught-up in the everyday changes. If a competitor is having a major product launch, or doing a...
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Fiona Finn
jane.app Director of Product Marketing7y
Depending on the outcomes desired (360* view of competition, product knowledge, pricing, positioning, etc.) there are a lot of different way to stay on top of a lot of di...
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Ellie Mirman
Teikametrics Vice President Marketing7y
1. Automate as much of the research / data collection as possible. Honestly, this should be "outsourced" to technology because it can do a better job at a fraction of the...
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Max A.
Google Product7y
This depends on the necessary level of detail. We use Google Alerts + an internal Slack channel for ongoing monitoring. As for in-depth analysis, Crunchbase, Angel.co, G2...
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Brady Jensen
cleargtm.com Founder7y
Something like Talkwalker Alerts is free like Google Alerts and much more flexible. If you are ready to get serious, something like Crayon from Ellie (above) or Kompyte c...
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James Winter
Telescope Partners Head of Marketing | Formerly Nexmo, Dialpad, Aspire, Brandfolder8y
Google Alerts are a great way to keep up on content that your competitors are posting. I have a weekly digest email that's delivered to my inbox with my top 6-7 competito...
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Emily Rugaber
Thanx VP of Marketing (previously Head of Product Marketing)7y
In addition to the above, I also like Owler and LinkedIn Sales Navigator for keeping on top of news and updates. I allocate one team member to focus on competitive and t...
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Steve Feyer
WalkMe Director, Solutions Marketing & Competitive Intelligence6y
In B2B: Make sure your sales team is activated to share information with you. Much important competitive information will not be public, and your sales reps are in the be...
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Gaurav Harode
Enablix Founder7y
Once you get the insights (from the different methods that the other answers have already shared), it will help to crystalize important changes in competitive deck so tha...
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Josh Colter
Woven Head of Marketing8y
RSS feed fed to a slack channel that I review each week. Also, I have alerts setup for key competitor pages (home, pricing, etc...) that notifiy me of any significant cha...
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Daniel Palay
KPI Sense Chief Executive Officer6y
@Ellie Mirman has the right idea, in terms of broad, general principles to apply. My personal bias is against following every release and customer move because it sets on...
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