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7 Market Research Examples for Competitive Intelligence

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Market research is an important––but often overlooked––element of the wider Market and Competitive Intelligence (M/CI) process. Various different types of market research enable organizations to develop new insights into their target customers, competitors, and the industries in which they compete. ??

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How to use LinkedIn for Competitive Intelligence

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Competitive intelligence analysis helps businesses maintain or gain a strategic market advantage. LinkedIn, with its network of over 750 million users worldwide, is an indispensable competitive intelligence tool, and no competitive intelligence research is complete without it.

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Competitive intelligence companies — the definitive list (2024 update)

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Every now and then, we publish a list of competitive intelligence companies. Our criteria include that competitive intelligence has to be their primary, or at least significant, focus. Other agencies graze the edges of competitive intelligence, but it's not their main service.

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Factors to Consider When Purchasing Competitive Intelligence Tools and Services: Part 1

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in market and competitive intelligence leader roles. Every week a new vendor comes knocking on my door with a sales pitch for their – fill in the blank – market research, competitive intelligence (CI) research, industry news, web scraping, expert network, CI software, consulting, company research, or outsourcing service.

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How to Get The Most Accurate Market Research Data

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Organizations that embrace market research reap many benefits: an in-depth understanding of their customers, advanced analytics for enhanced results interpretation, and the ability to uncover new market trends as they develop to name a few. Today, market research goes hand-in-hand with market and competitive intelligence (M/CI).

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Harnessing Sales Teams as a Source Of Competitive Intelligence

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Unleashing the power of sales as CI agents When it comes to competitor analysis and market research, we often overlook the closest source of first-hand competitor insights – our own sales teams. They’re in a fantastic position to tap into valuable insights and have a keen understanding of the competitive landscape.

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How to Do Market Research for a Business Plan

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If you’re in the process of creating a business plan, market research will play a central role in helping you to shape your strategy. You could be working on a business plan to raise investment for a new startup , or pulling together a detailed strategy that outlines the expansion of an existing business into a new market.