The One Thing the Competetion Didn’t Want You to Know When You Started…

The one thing that the competition did not want you to know…

Entrepreneurs share their best tip!

That they were making it up as they went along as well….

Never put your competition on a pedestal and assume they know more than you do – they are probably looking at you and thinking exactly the same.

Thanks To: Kev Roberts

Oh, the usual: how much they short their customers, in time, value, and service. Dead giveaways when you approach them as a shopper.

Thanks To: Greg Lauver

Writers are very close-mouthed about their fees.

Thanks To: Judy B. Margolis, MA

Their bloated pricing for software “features” that are really no extra effort or cost to them.

Thanks To: Matt Brown, CEO at Haulix

They did not want me to know who their customers or employees were for fear that I would try to steal one or the other.

Have I lost customers to the competition? Sure. It occurred because I was not meeting the need in some way. It never occurred when I was doing the best job that I could and never taking advantage or taking the customer for granted. Sometimes it just happens through no fault of your own.

Thanks To: Steve Robison

When I was starting my collection agency other agencies were very secretive about their fees and services. Since selling my agency and doing consulting on starting a collection agency, my clients are still running into this with other agencies.

I always thought this was odd since I never looked at them as competition, just like Pepsi and Coke, unless you are not doing the best job you can, there really is no competition and you should be able to work together but not every business owner looks at it that way.

Thanks To: Michelle Dunn

Unless you know something exceptional that no one else yet knows, there’s no one thing that’s important enough to make you exceptional.

To rely on just the one thing is commercial suicide.

Be great at one thing, by all means. But be sure to be damn good at many other things, too.

Thanks To: Wayne Smallman, Octane

They did not want me to know how to market better than they did.

Thanks To: Jim Troth
Owner, Habitation Investigation LLC

Most of my competitors were deficient in their commitment to excellence and availability. I made my breakthrough before I really had the talent because clients sensed the commitment. Today, my challenge (a serious one) is how to meet deadlines without compromising on quality.

Thanks to: Naftali Greenwood

Its not about what “they don’t want me to know” … for me, its always been about what “I don’t want them to know”, which is: That I exist and I soon will be “the” competition they never saw coming … its amazing what good research can offer one when done correctly about what the “others” are doing, and I don’t mean doing right, that’s the easy part, its what they are doing or did wrong that I want to know. This will prove more valuable than the contrary in my opinion and experience, but this is just an opinion of one…

Thanks To: Thomas Mathews
Business Development Consultant at Kijubi

What did your competition wish you didn’t find out when you started out?