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Re: The Angry Toaster!

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Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur View Post
I believe the term in marketing is called 'differentiation'.
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If you cannot differentiate your product from the market leader then you cannot overcome them (even in a nitch market like FIRST/CD).
It's not really differentiation. To paraphrase Gary Vaynerchuk, poorly, in order to compete and win, you have to be better than your competitor in more ways than one – more knowledgeable, better content, more social interaction, etc... and most of all you have to CARE

He also goes on saying to be involved a lot with the community. Not commenting on posts basically saying "hey look at my site," or just saying "good job" or whatever. Actually provide valuable feedback and your two-cents on it.

You could do this, but you'd have to try really, really, really, really hard.

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