https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw5iIZH8P4c
Thoughts on competition in terms of time, work and all things that pull people away from you and your message to reach others with your business offers.
Transcription
Who is your competition beyond your industry?
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In the meantime, I wanted to hit on this one topic because it's one of those things I learned, oh, probably almost 10 years ago.
Now, when I heard, I think it was Dan Kennedy that I originally heard say this. And he was saying, you know, your competition isn't just in your industry.
So if you're a business owner, or an executive and you run, you basically run your business, you run the business, you're the one in charge, you probably spend a lot of time thinking about competition.
Oftentimes it's people that are in your industry or in your specific area of your industry are the people that seem to be competing the most directly for clients and customers.
You really ought to be thinking beyond that. It's one of the main things of why I think competition is it's a misnomer, on a lot of ways. I talk about all in my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business, because it's all about overcoming competition.
But a big part of is overcoming the mentality of competition, that competition actually exists and so go get yourself a copy of this.
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Let's talk about what competition is not though.
What competition? Well, let me rephrase that.
Let's talk about, well, what if you're actually thinking of competition, how you really ought to be thinking about that in a broader sense.
Because if you think you're competing, just for dollars, that's a small piece of it, that's, that's way down the line before you ever get $1 from, from your prospective customers, you got to think about the attention that you're getting.
The competition for attention is endless. It never ends. And it goes far beyond your industry, when you're competing for attention.
You're not just competing against other people in your industry are other people that talk like you or think like you, or advertise like you or market like you. You're not just competing against them.
You're competing against everything else that's on YouTube.
Everything else that's on the internet, you're competing against their family time, you're competing against the work that they're supposed to be doing right now, you're competing against, I mean, everything, everything in their life, is pulling them away, from paying attention to you, and your message.
If you think about that, that's rather daunting. Because there's more if you just think about yourself,