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Who Are Their Affiliates
Another way to take advantage of your competition is to find out who their affiliates are. If you offer an affiliate program, this may be an ideal strategy for you. Track down your competition's affiliates and persuade them to promote your product or services, instead of your competitor's.
If your competitors offer their affiliates a lower commission percentage than you, then you already have upper hand. How? Affiliates are always looking for away to make more money and by offering them a higher commission percentage, they'll be able to increase their affiliate profits.
How do you find your competition's affiliates? You can use same methods to find their affiliates, as you would trying to locate their link partners, by using Arelis and/or Marketleap's Link Popularity Tool.
Spying On Your Competition
Thanks to power of internet, spying on your competition couldn't be any easier. You can easily find out what their marketing angle is, what they have for products, how much they are charging for their products, and any new products that they may be working on.
If you were to go to your competition offline and evaluate their establishment, while taking notes on their products, you would immediately draw attention to yourself and get thrown out of store. There is nothing worse than letting your competition know you are keeping tabs on them, but on internet, it's completely anonymous. Your competition will never know you are there or what your doing there.
When you pay a visit to your competition's web site, first thing you want to know is, what their weaknesses and their strengths are. That way, you can capitalize on opportunity of making their weaknesses, your strengths.
Rich Hamilton, Jr is the CEO/President of http://www.ElitesMarketing.com and the Author of Inside Internet Marketing. His book will show you how to laser in on your targeted market with unconventional marketing strategies to promote your web site without ever having to pay a cent in advertising. http://www.InsideNetMarketing.com