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Competitor mapping: The benefits and how to create your own

Sprout Social

If you want to succeed as a business, you need to keep an eye on your industry through competitor analysis. Competitor mapping is the cornerstone of competitive analysis. To help visualize your competitive analysis, competitor maps contextualize your research and competitive data, enabling you to make informed business decisions.

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20 B2B Marketing Strategies That Will Deliver Success In 2021

Marketing Insider Group

Embrace Automation and Martech. A strategic marketing plan, which we’re talking about here, combines market research with a situation analysis of your brand. Advanced and automated marketing tactics, personalization, interactive content and new user experience requirements all demand a greater portion of a business’s budget to achieve.

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Competitive monitoring: tracking the competition to stay ahead

Sprout Social

It’s the first step of competitive analysis that involves gathering the intelligence you need to make informed business decisions. By keeping an eye on your competitors’ activities, you can learn from their wins and losses, develop foolproof strategies, better position your products and differentiate your brand.

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How to gain a competitive advantage by analyzing marketing initiatives by competitors

Sprout Social

Digging into your competitor’s approach through a marketing competitor analysis is critical to putting together or updating your brand’s marketing strategy. In this article, you’ll see why a marketing competitive analysis is important and get expert tips on conducting one. What is competitor analysis in marketing?

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ITSMA Marketing Vision 2021: my Top 10 “Insanely Great” Ah Hah Moments for Marketing Leaders

Marketing Insider Group

Competitive intelligence (insights and analysis and NOT just data and information) is a key competency fueling and supporting Thought Leadership. As someone who was once called the “sultan of SWOT ” (with true respect to the great Babe Ruth) when I wore my annual “planning hat” in SAP marketing, I have preached for years (decades?)

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19 B2B Marketing Strategies That Are Still Important for 2019

Marketing Insider Group

A strategic marketing plan, which we’re talking about here, combines market research with a situation analysis of your brand. One of the most common ways to get started is by using your marketing agency or internal committee to identify your top five to ten competitors and conduct a SWOT analysis for each.

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How to Choose the Right Accounts for ABM, from HubSpot's ABM Product Manager

Hubspot

For this type of campaign, it’s best to use an automated Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) workflow to flag best-fit companies. For teams willing to invest in some upfront analysis, building an “ideal customer profile” can help identify target accounts. With tiers, you can differentiate perfect fits from the “good-not-great” fits.