Competition Questions

To increase profit, a supermarket chain may create their own house-brand version of a certain product. But why is it then that they keep stocking the competitor product?

Competition

asked Oct 23 '13 at 05:59

Warren Van Rooyen
34 points

We have just completed and launched our web based project and we are preparing for our marketing strategy after that we are sure we will get quite enough attention and users. After researching for...

Ideas Competition

asked Oct 5 '13 at 21:08

Disconnect25
16 points

I'm afraid, with what I want to supply being in the fresh food realm that retail outlets may quickly create their own version of my product to cut me out of the equation. Because it's in the...

Competition Retail

asked Oct 22 '13 at 04:40

Warren Van Rooyen
34 points

I imagine this is a very tricky question but hopefully I can get a few insights here. I am currently wrapping up a personal project (SaaS) that is aimed at a fairly new niche market. There is a...

Competition Revenue Fundraising

asked Aug 17 '13 at 17:30

Silk Admin
106 points

I currently work within a call centre as a manager and I have a lot of admin work to complete. During my own time, at home, on my own PC I started developing a system/tool via Excel that would...

Competition Employees Side Projects Copyright Intellectual Property

asked Aug 21 '13 at 21:50

Jim Cullinane
41 points

For that past few months, I've been building a product that targets a specific niche. The kind of product I have been building hasn't been around the marketplace, and I knew there is a...

Strategy Competition Exit Strategy

asked Mar 7 '13 at 06:34

K2x L
111 points

I have been working on a SaaS product for about a year and a half (on and off, among other projects). Lately I have gotten serious about the product. While doing a routine evaluation of competitors...

Legal Competition Terms And Conditions

asked Jan 30 '13 at 09:06

Joe A
1,196 points

I am currently running a very simple side project which I hope will lead to something bigger. I see quite a few tweets from my competitors customers saying they're using their product for a...

Marketing Customers Competition Traffic Twitter

asked Jan 8 '13 at 07:28

Abs
118 points

I took a course on gamification it cleared a lot of thing up but I'm still confuse. A gamified app or website has to be build from ground up through the lens of a game designer. So, I think is a...

Getting Started Strategy Competition Business Plan User Experience

asked Dec 23 '12 at 13:33

Zapoo
303 points

When is it taking inspiration from a competitor, and when is it theft? I'd like to know the general questions to ask myself when reviewing competing products in creation of my own. (I'd be...

Products Competition Inspiration

asked Nov 16 '12 at 07:41

Mirov
384 points

I spend a lot of time thinking about potential start up ideas. I come up with a couple every now and then, but when I go searching online there is always quite a few competitors. I don't think I've...

Ideas Competition

asked Oct 24 '12 at 06:24

Brian D.
173 points

Most of us know the quote: “Good artists copy, Great artists steal” - Steve Jobs Copying and in extreme cases stealing is no news as a recipe for a successful businesses. Whether the term...

Competition Small Business

asked Aug 9 '12 at 05:31

Shed Meyers
6 points

Im developing a business model that brings a new feature to its market. the idea itself is new and nobody is doing it today. in order to enable this, Im using an existing platform (free at this...

Competition Free

asked Jun 4 '12 at 14:37

Lior
11 points

I'm curious to know how most go about gathering information regarding their competitors? I am interested in developing an application that would directly compete with numerous websites and I am...

Competition Traffic Website Market Research

asked Jun 5 '12 at 05:20

Tbowman
217 points

I'm currently building/running a 'digital marketing agency' from home with my partner. We provide websites (business card sites, CMS-driven sites, e-commerce etc), hosting, email services right...

Pricing Competition

asked Jun 3 '12 at 03:26

Anonymous
557 points

How do I get financial information (turnover, profit etc) for a competitor located in Canada? Here in Sweden, there are several sites which can be used to get financial information. For instance,...

Competition Financial

asked May 9 '12 at 19:58

Jgauffin
119 points

Please imagine this scenario for a moment: You've got a great idea for a software product, and research indicates you've got basically no competition because your product has unique features...

Competition

asked May 14 '12 at 17:25

Torben Gundtofte Bruun
350 points

I've read that the online image editor app http://www.picnik.com closes. How should a competitor react on such a message? What marketing measures are the right ones to reach users that are looking...

Marketing Competition Online

asked Apr 10 '12 at 19:40

James
16 points

Scenario: I'm in the market research stage of my startup (manufacturing), and when researching my competition I noticed one company who is able to provide similar goods to what I plan to sell at a...

Competition Market Research

asked Mar 31 '12 at 04:53

User19897
18 points

I'm launching a website with some features that are different from my two competitors. One of my competitors established a website in 2008, and one launched in January. A friend told me not to...

Competition Product Launch

asked Mar 31 '12 at 07:11

Afnan Bashir
103 points