The business world is developing at the speed of sound, creating and implementing new methods and strategies to win a place under the sun. The fluctuations in market trends and customer interests require a great deal of marketing department flexibility. However, there’s one more thing that impacts the performance of the company – competitors. Competition creates better service and goods, and it makes every company fight for every loyal customer, as it’s rather easy to lose them.

Apart from planning and caring out the company’s program, it’s crucial to navigate through the rivals’ performance as well. There are two basic ways of doing that:

• Individual tracking – requires the active following of social networking sites, a website, a channel, and a newsletter subscription, knowledge of data gathering, and presentation. Basically, there should be another person to track everything and make out their system of market influence based on the observation.
• Competitor Research Survey – a group of professionals conveys the research and presents you the results, which can be put to further use.

Both forms are absolutely feasible regarding the initial idea, yet quite different when considering the outcomes.

Individual tracking is definitely a money-saving option. There’s no need to hire a third-party company for doing this job, and you are always vigilant about all the changes. However, in terms of time spent and knowledge required, not everything is that easy.

Business values time and its ergonomic usage, which doesn’t fit the idea of individual competitor tracking. Besides, getting all the data about the performance is just a part of the deal. To make this information work for you, it must be analyzed, grouped, compared, and used to make the forecasts. Although it may seem relatively easy, it does require a great deal of knowledge and time, as it must be conducted on a regular basis.

If the company really values the time and quality of the research, it’s worth hiring a group of professionals who know what and how to do, to make you fully aware of the competitor’s strategies.

What are the benefits of competitor research surveys?

•  Ability To See A Big Picture

Competitors’ research is a helpful tool to see how the commerce world around you develops and grows. Basically, the surveys help to define:

• Successes and failures of the competitors and the reason behind them.
• Customers’ motivation – what is done to attract and interest the client, and moreover, keep them as local clients.
• The price policies.
• Growth within the industry.

These are the major points to create a clear vision of the competing companies’ profiles.

Considering the number of competitors within the same industry, there will be a lot of information to study. There are definitely big and small players on the market, and apart from the summaries, it’s important to look into the individual figures of every company, their organization, and the work results.

• Competitor’s Weaknesses Define Your Strengths

Every company has strengths and weaknesses, and there are no exceptions. However, the most vital thing, is how they fight all their vulnerabilities and turn them into tools for growth.

When discovering the pain points of the competitors, it’s worth checking your development strategy as well, as learning from someone else’s mistakes will be extremely helpful in this case.

The competitor’s survey will point out which part of their performance suffers, giving you a chance to make it your benefit and play on the strong side.

• Customer Needs

Customers are the driving force of every business as, in essence, everything evolves around their needs and interests. Watching their behavior and activities is crucial, as it defines the marketing strategy as well. There are numerous ways to track the customers’ activities and statistics of usage, yet again, the data is too scattered. Moreover, the customer’s priorities are quite changeable, and keeping updated may seem a challenge.

With the competitor’s research, you just get perfectly systemized data regarding the clients and put it to further use in the campaign.

• Save Time And Money

“Your time is your money”, everyone is aware of this truth of life. However, these two essential resources will be wasted if you spend time doing the research without being fully prepared for it.

The researchers need to collect, organize, analyze, visualize and compare all the research results, presenting them in a conventional form. Without the appropriate set of skills, the research will be pointless.

The competitive environment is highly dynamic; it looks like a chess game. It’s important to be vigilant and proactive, to understand what the rivals are going to do because the business world bears no mistakes. In order to provide an efficient and trouble-proof performance for the company, it’s worth cooperating with the professionals, who will provide you with all the necessary analytics, and thus, create a solid ground for your plans and strategies.

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