Inquiry with Evan Brown

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Jun 13, 2022 1:04 AM
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  • Not even using google alerts
  • People typically think CI is:
    • Dumpster diving
    • Secret shopping
  • There are a lot of free info sources
    • Patent filings
    • Crunchbase
    • Google Alerts
    • Simply don’t know where to get CI from, more often than not
  • So when we give them a tool, they want to source information from EVERYTHING and they’re getting completely overwhelmed
  • So having a sort of ease smaller clients into the CI process
    • So here are the basics you need to improve what you’re doing
  • They lack focus, they identify a ton of comeptitors vs focusing on a couple that should be the biggest focus
  • How would we market that?
    • You’re not ready yet??
    • How could you swing locking a feature set?
  • Even’s approach would be here’s your onboarding plan, can you realistically etach them how to use the tools
  • For Tech CEOs that’s the biggest hurdle is knowing how to use the tool
  • A lot of companies provide hands on support to cover this
    • Evan’s counter to that is realistically how engrained is that person in your org
    • CI requires a lot of internal meetings, knowledge sharing
    • Are they able to give that level of integration
  • Tech CEOs, if they have the money to pay for a 3rd party analyst, then they’re beholden to the tool
  • But if they build a strong process, that’s a skillset they’re building internally that they can take with them
  • We’re going to teach you how to perform CI
  • Being more prescriptive anout the types of intel they should look at. This is more appropriate for you becasue...

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