In search of competition: Seth Has Great Insight for Photographers

Instead of focusing on everyone else, focus on yourself as if they are all focusing on you... get it?

Seth's Blog: In search of competition: "The only way to enjoy competition is to have something different, or better, or something that scales. You need to offer a community that increases in value as it scales, or a unique perspective or technology.

Compare Amazon to the folks that make the Invisible Fence® dog containment system. They hate competition. In my experience, they have really high prices, nasty policies and a take-it-or-leave-it attitude. That's okay, as long as you really don't have a choice--you need a system like this, and they have it. If there were a transparent market for this product, they'd fail in a heartbeat.

Of course, nothing lasts forever, and competition does show up. Then what?

If you run your restaurant knowing that there are dozens of other restaurants on your block, things will be easier when in fact there are other restaurants down the block."