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Ecommerce Competitor Analysis: How to Research and Outperform Your Rivals

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A practical, ecommerce-specific how-to for building a competitor list and research routine from scratch, useful for a founder who's never done formal competitive research before.

  • Step-by-step process for identifying competitors via product keywords across Google, Amazon and social
  • Covers what to actually document once you've found a competitor (pricing, catalog, promotions)
  • Written for solo or small-team founders, not enterprise research departments

It answers 2 questions

  1. Who counts as my competitor - only brands selling the exact same product, or more than that?
  2. Is competitor research a one-time thing I do before launch, or something I need to keep doing?

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