Should You Worry About the Competition?
May 14, 2008 – 7:46 pm
There are lots of lenses on Squidoo, and the number is growing every day. It might seem like just about every topic you could think of has been covered by somebody. If you pay too much attention to your “competition,” it might be a little intimidating. If others have created dozens of lenses on a given topic, does that mean there’s no room left for you?
Absolutely not!
Do you have a passion for the topic? Do you have first-hand experience with it? Then you have something valuable to contribute, even if a bunch of other people have already taken a stab at it. Chances are, many of your “competitors” have only made half-hearted efforts that will pale in comparison to a great lens made by someone who really knows their stuff.
Don’t worry about your competition. In fact, don’t even look at it as competition. Just focus on making the best lenses you can.
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2 Responses to “Should You Worry About the Competition?”
You addressed a very real topic here. In the past, I thought about doing a certain niche lens only to find that there was another very good one on that topic. I thought to myself, “how hard is it going to be to beat this one?”
Now, I don’t let that stop me, occasionally I will see what the competition is doing, but not much more than that, there is plenty of traffic to go around.
By jeffwend on May 19, 2008
Hi Jeff! You’re right, there’s enough traffic to go around. If I feel a strong urge to write about a certain topic, I rarely look to see if it’s been covered before–I just run with it.
By Victoria Neely on May 20, 2008