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How do you research your competitors?
Are you an expert investigator? Share your secrets!
Asked Jan 28, 2010 15:59 PM by: Jennifer Escalona
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I'm a children's portrait and wedding photographer and I've found one easy way to keep up with what other photographers are doing is to add their blogs to my google reader page. I just started using google reader and it's my new best friend for keeping up a bunch of different topics. It's nice to be able to scroll through all the new posts for the day and just skip to anything that might interest me.
Answered Jan 29, 2010 18:24 PM by: Misty Richmond Photography
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I go a step further and take something of my own to be repaired, just to see how they go about it, how long it takes, how they deal with me, I say I don't need it in a hurry and then phone next day saying that sorry I do need it back asap and see how they deal with that. I make a mental note of their workshop, the amount of work they have, how organsied they are, how accessible. The ones Iike, I tell them who I am and ask them if they would be able to help me out when I am busy, ill or away and offer the same for them.
I do need a safetynet as I work entirely on my own and it may be a sneaky way of getting someone willing to help out, but at least I know that they are of the same standard as me.
Its also good to know what services they do provide because if I get asked to do something that I can't do, rather than say sorry I can't help you I can say, I know someone who can. I may ahve lost taht particualr business but they may return for something else.
Answered Mar 12, 2010 15:03 PM by: Studio Stitches
