What Can I Do to Separate Myself From My Competitors Without Burning Bridges?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Today's question comes from Aaron, who has a question about communicating with your competition without burning bridges. How can we support each other without creating conflict? Is there room for building relationships with your competitors? What are some ways you can set your website apart from your competitors in your unique niche? Aaron's website is at http://www.hamconnect.com/. Do you have a question about separating your business from your competitors without burning bridges? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. You can also share your thoughts on this topic on Twitter by using the hashtag #AskPat718

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:04.0	AskPath.com.
0:10.5	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:11.8	Patflin here and welcome to episode 718 of Ask Pat.
0:15.3	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.9	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.9	Now, here's today's question from Aaron.
0:23.6	Here we go.
0:25.1	Hey, Pat.
0:25.4	My name is Aaron McNany, and I absolutely consider myself one of your smart passive income students.
0:30.1	I'm pretty active in the amateur radio niche, and after some research, I ended up making a social networking membership site for ham radio.
0:37.7	It's called ham connect.com.
0:39.5	And we've already grown to about 700 members in two months or so.
0:43.3	And I expect, and I'm planning for a lot more growth.
0:46.6	So here's my question.
0:48.0	There's another website out there that's doing something similar to HamConnect,
0:51.2	but I'm definitely not compelled by their site structure, aesthetics,
0:55.3	vision, and I really do believe that HamConnect has the edge on everything else.
1:01.5	Now, the creator of this competitor messaged me recently after becoming a member of my site,
1:06.0	and he's curious about how we might join forces or what have you. I presently can't see any way in which
1:13.1	our sites could work together. And ultimately, I really do believe Ham Connect is going to have,
1:17.2	you know, the corner on this part of the market. So how do you communicate with your direct
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