step away from the tools: how to get a picture view of your competition by purna virji
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Step away from the tools: How to get a big-picture view of your competition
Purna Virji
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WRITER SPEAKER
All of the job titles
SENIOR TRAINER AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
MOM
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1. How big is the opportunity?
2. Who is your fringe competition?
3. What is the competition actually up to?
3 big-picture competitive analysis questions
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1. How big is the opportunity?
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The size of the opportunity impacts your:
Budget setting
Creative Targeting
Bidding Impressions
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How big is the opportunity?
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What’s the annual spend on this
product?
Are my sales goals reasonable?
Are my sales goals possible?
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Geographical limitations
Infrastructure limitations
Legal/regulation limitations
Geographical limitations
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Infrastructure limitations
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Legal/ regulatory limitations
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Legal/regulatory limitations
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Can I make the opportunity bigger?
Halloween Costume Halloween costume
Seasonal keywords +
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Can I make the opportunity bigger?
Mast climbing gear Mast repair Mast climbing equipment
New market keywords +
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q Population research q Market research q Annual spend on this product q Infrastructure limitations q Number of competitors q Survey current users q Identify weaknesses in your competition
2. Who is your fringe competition?
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Your fringe competition impacts your:
Creative Impressions
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Bidding
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q Think critically about who uses your product • Market research • Survey current customers
q Study the fringe competition to understand how they position themselves
q Bid on the fringe competition keywords
3. What is your competition actually up to?
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Your competition’s activity impacts your:
Budgeting Targeting
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Ad testing Bidding Landing page testing
What this tells you:
= The effort you need to make to beat them
How complex or simple their SEM strategy is
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How many ads are they running?
What this tells you:
= how much time you have to beat them
How much attention their SEM campaign is getting
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How quickly do they react to your copy changes?
What this tells you:
= how to anticipate changes and adjust your own campaign earlier
What they react to: seasonal, market trends, holidays
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When do they put new ads into the rotation?
= how to match or best their selling points and offers
What their selling points are, and how often they change offers
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Landing pages: How many? What are the calls to action? How often updated?
What this tells you:
Making big-picture analysis part of your routine
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Use specific milestones • New client pitch • Monthly report • Quarterly review
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Create benchmark data
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1. How big is the opportunity?
2. Who is your fringe competition?
3. What is the competition actually up to?
Re-cap: 3 big-picture questions
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Thank you! @purnavirji