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Outsmart competitors with competitive intel & market research

1h 24min | 11 lessons | 0 downloadable resources

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Gather up-to-date information on your competitors.
  • Conduct an effective win/loss program.
  • Collaborate with marketing to establish proactive competitive displacement campaigns.
  • Secure a seat at the table for strategic company initiatives.
  • Increase your visibility within your organization.

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Stay ahead of competitors and influence strategic decisions with insightful intelligence

Many teams face challenges in gathering and applying relevant insights about competitors, often leading to missed opportunities and reactive strategies. This course provides you with a detailed framework to gather and analyze competitive intelligence effectively. You’ll learn to implement impactful win/loss programs, collaborate on displacement campaigns, and leverage intelligence to influence strategic decisions within your organization. By mastering these skills, you’ll improve your role in guiding strategies that keep your brand one step ahead for business growth.

Master competitive intelligence & market research to secure market leadership and strategic advantage

Course Length:
1h 24min. 11 lessons.

In this course, you’ll learn to turn competitive insights into actionable strategies that influence decision-making and secure your brand’s position in the market. You’ll learn how to gather and analyze competitive data, run effective win/loss programs, and collaborate on displacement campaigns that improve your market stance. Gain the skills to proactively anticipate competitor moves, support key initiatives with strong intelligence, and establish yourself as a strategic advisor within your organization.

After completing this online course on competitive intelligence & market research you will be able to assist your team and company with:

  • Gathering and analyzing up-to-date competitor intelligence.
  • Implementing impactful win/loss programs to inform strategy.
  • Developing competitive displacement campaigns with marketing.
  • Guiding strategic initiatives with informed insights.
  • Improving visibility within the organization through actionable intelligence.

This course is for you if you are responsible for:

  • Shaping business strategy and positioning.
  • Conducting market research to inform decision-making.
  • Leading competitive intelligence programs.
  • Supporting sales or product teams with market insights.
  • Developing proactive strategies to stay ahead of competitors.

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Course Curriculum

Competitive intelligence and market research

What is Competitive Intelligence and why is it so important?

Competitors are everywhere and there’s a lot to learn from them. Let’s start from the beginning and establish what we can learn, and how it can help our businesses (and our careers). Topics covered: Define what we mean by “Competitive Intelligence.”Est

Gathering Competitive & Market Insights: Startups & Mid-Market

You don’t have to put down tens of thousands of dollars to start building a competitive intel function. Let’s start small with a few recommended affordable and free tools. Topics covered: Learn how to dig through a competitor’s website and identify who

Gathering Competitive & Market Insights: Enterprise

Your business is growing, and so is your list of competitors. Invest in these tools to stay on top. Topics covered: Learn how to automatically keep up to date on your competitors’ web presence.Track how often competitors are mentioned by prospects or c

Understanding Your Audience: An Ongoing Mindset

The art of cataloguing insights and thinking like a Content Marketer. Topics covered: Understand how to think about your audience in the same way that sales and marketing thinks about their prospects and customers.Establish a simple methodology for con

Building Battlecards for Sales & Marketing Teams

Deliver what they need to confidently dismiss competitors. Topics covered: Understand the most important thing to include in your battlecards.Learn the tools you can use to build battlecards on any budget.Figure out where to put the battlecards or dist

Competitive Newsletters for Product & the C-Suite

Publish newsletters that teams actually look forward to reading. Topics covered: The three main questions to ask yourself when you uncover an insight.How to design your newsletter from top to bottom.Recommended tools to help you write in a way that peo

Developing a Competitive Strategy through Win/Loss (part 1)

How and when to conduct quantitative research through Win/Loss surveys. Topics covered: Learn the “what” and “why” of quantitative research.Recommended tools to help you create surveys.How to write surveys properly and send invites that lead to high re

Developing a Competitive Strategy through Win/Loss (part 2)

How and when to conduct qualitative research through Win/Loss interviews. Topics covered: How to conduct a proper interview without annoying the other party.Avoid commonly-made mistakes that delay program results.How to report on Win / Loss program res

Organizing a Competitive Marketing Campaign

Partner with Marketing & proactively displace competitors. Topics covered: Learn the first steps you need to take when starting an email campaign.Recommended tools to make sure you get the right contact and account data.Understand the questions you

Pushing “Go” On Your Competitive Program

How to put everything that you’ve learned in this course together and crush your competitors. Topics covered: Learn where to start after the conclusion of this course.Understand what makes or breaks most competitive intelligence programs.The key to pav

Andy McCotter-Bicknell

Senior Product Marketing Manager @ ZoomInfo

The creator and owner of ZoomInfo’s competitive intelligence program. ZoomInfo is the world’s leading go-to-market engine — ranking #1 in 27 G2 grids as of Summer ’21.

Competitive intelligence has the power to influence every aspect of a company. His competitive intelligence program has contributed to six acquisitions and dozens of seven-figure deals.

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Completing this course earns you an official CXL Competitive Intelligence & Market Research Course Certificate to prove your achievement. CXL is recognized as an industry-leading qualification by employers worldwide, and it is an official qualification on Linkedin that can be added to your profile.

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