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Keeping Tabs on the Competition as a Start-Up

Harvard Business Review

Big companies have it easy when it comes to gathering and utilizing competitive intelligence. It can be as simple as a shared file on Google Docs or Sharepoint, or a company-developed wiki. To make this data useful, designate someone at the company to take control of competitive intelligence. Use social media.

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

Trade groups such as the Georgia Economic Developers Association use an app that lowers the cost and distribution hassle of print material while generating enough incremental sponsorship revenue to pay for the app entirely. The apps also make real the often-cited but rarely-delivered promise of “engagement” via social media.

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How to Actually Put Your Marketing Data to Use

Harvard Business Review

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.