Competition Questions

Customizing Wordpress (apart from using themes) is very hard and it's all a bunch of spaghetti PHP code. Yet their marketshare keeps increasing over the years.Why hasn't another CMS platform that...

Competition Wordpress Platforms Traction Market Share

asked Jun 21 '15 at 13:58

Chris Jenkins
11 points

For my target keyword I am ranking as #1. Lately I've started seeing strange backlinks (lots of them) in Google Webmaster Tools.I suspect one of my competitors is doing it to potentially screw up...

Competition Google SEO Spam Backlinks

asked Jun 19 '14 at 01:42

Kevin Kinder
11 points

I have a product that costs less than the competitors' to manufacture, so I know that I can afford to ask for a lower amount of money, but I know that my product is better. Should I then ask my...

Pricing Competition Product Launch Product Release

asked Jul 7 '14 at 18:55

Robert Kotula
6 points

I'm looking to buy electronics (unlocked phones) from a wholesaler and sell them online.What's a better strategy to compete with other sites selling the same product? Should I lower my margins and...

Strategy Ecommerce Competition Shopping Margin

asked Jul 7 '14 at 21:25

Morgan Barra
2 points

I'll be honest, I'm not interested in offering a free service. I plan on offering a valuable service thats trusted and easy to use. After wondering about my idea that I've been building for the...

Ideas Competition Startups

asked Jan 14 '15 at 19:27

User34223
21 points

We spent a lot of money on PPC ads and lately seeing a ton of fraudulent clicks. After some investigation, they appear to be clicks by competitors. How can we prevent this from happening on not...

Adwords Competition Advertising Google Fraud

asked Apr 17 '15 at 10:10

Frank Heacock
12 points

We have a small B2B application and have poured a lot of energy and resources into designing a great user experience. Our closest competitor just "overhauled" their own UX and it's a blatant rip...

Legal Competition Copyright User Interface UX

asked May 11 '14 at 18:25

Sheryl Garcia
2 points

I would like to run Google AdWords campaigns with the keywords as my competitor's brand names. Some questions: Is it legal to do so? Would consumers view this negatively for my brand (i.e. would my...

Adwords Competition Google PPC Keywords

asked May 11 '14 at 18:44

Yesenia Mc Laughlin
7 points

What are some common and not so common methodologies to differentiate from your competition? Here are some I can think of: Customer service Returns policy Donating small part of revenues to charity...

Competition Competitors Differentiation

asked May 6 '14 at 17:55

Coleen Briggs
11 points

DropBox's entire business is using Amazon's S3 service to provide distributed storage. Wouldn't it be easy for Amazon to offer such a service directly?It seems like an obvious choice since DropBox,...

Competition Amazon Dropbox

asked Apr 17 '14 at 18:30

Mark Bartley
2 points

Large companies do it with lengthy contracts or brand recognition. What strategies can startups use to lock users in. Not in terms of a shady practice like not letting them export data, but in...

Strategy Products Competition Startups Competitors

asked Apr 27 '14 at 13:29

John Boucher
16 points

Which social media app would you recommend to track what your competitors post and the impact of their posts?Does such a tool even exist? The closest seems to be FollowerWonk, but it's only to...

Social Media Competition Tools

asked Apr 19 '14 at 17:43

David Rice
6 points

We have an idea for a Saas app which is the first of its kind. Even after extensive research, there is just one possible competitor, and even they aren't an exact match.It's not a question of...

Competition Competitors

asked Apr 24 '14 at 21:12

April Simmons
14 points

Why wouldn't they just open their store outside of a mall where would be less competition? Every mall has several brand name stores that directly compete with each other. Wouldn't it be harder to...

Competition

asked Apr 13 '14 at 13:41

James Wentworth
9 points

I want to start my own brand of energy drinks and related products. Would you say the market is far too saturated for any new player?What are some ways I could differentiate my product in the sea...

Competition Market Opportunity Differentiation

asked Apr 10 '14 at 23:57

Donald Kennamer
12 points

You share a brilliant idea you had with a peer (in order to get some feedback on it). And later learn that they have decided to implement it themselves!I'm already in the process of executing on it...

Ideas Competition

asked Mar 21 '14 at 00:27

Jonathan Locke
30 points

Lets say my company and another competitor are the only two contenders in a niche for a physical product. And the products are mostly similar (and can't really be altered much to have a big...

Competition Profitability

asked Mar 5 '14 at 11:16

Raymond Davenport
30 points

Should I be concerned that my direct competitor just signed up for a paid account on my SaaS product? Is it legal for them to do so with the intention of possibly copying our work? Is it legal for...

Legal Competition Saas

asked Feb 24 '14 at 13:37

Brad Brown
30 points

For a few years, I have been producing an application which complements a number of "IDE-style" tools in my domain. My application is useless without one of these tools. I have made a handful of...

Competition

asked Nov 17 '13 at 04:53

Sylver
146 points

This is my first time on this part of SO. Go easy on me :) Say for example you know a company building a tool or app, but you discover that their way of doing it is flawed or in a more kinder way...

Features Competition Apps

asked Nov 22 '13 at 06:00

Joe
201 points