Episode #1378
5 Ways to Learn from Your Competitors and Shortcut Your Marketing Success
May 10, 2020

In episode #1378, we talk about five ways to learn from your competitors and shortcut your marketing success. We cover tips from how to work with the best people out there to learning from your competitors’ mistakes on podcasts they featured on! Tune in to hear how to optimize your business by keeping an eye on the winners in your space!

TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES:

  • [00:25] Today’s topic: Five Ways to Learn from Your Competitors and Shortcut Your Marketing Success.
  • [00:34] Finding your Dream 100 and people to work with using SparkToro.
  • [01:39] Using Built With and Wayback Machine to track a competitor’s strategy evolution.
  • [02:45] Checking how successful a competitor’s ads are using Facebook Ad Library.
  • [03:24] Learning from a competitor’s mistakes on podcasts they featured on.
  • [04:44] Using Adbeat to see what kinds of ads competitors are using on Google.
  • [05:24] That’s it for today!
  • [05:25] To stay updated with events and learn more about our mastermind, go to the Marketing School site for more information.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

SparkToro

Chet Holmes

Built With

Russel Brunson

ClickFunnels

Hotjar

Crazy Egg

Wayback Machine

Facebook Ad Library

Leveling Up

Nathan Latka

Adbeat

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