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    Leveraging research to understand the business landscape

    Low effort

    Medium impact

    Staying relevant in a crowded sector is tricky, particularly if you don’t know how direct competitors are faring and where your business stands in comparison. Without this knowledge, it can be hard to assess your performance and identify your competitive advantage. Leveraging different types of research is a useful way for leaders to build a better understanding of what’s going on in their sector.

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    • Helpful tools are provided for certain steps while a tracking metric at the end will help you determine the long-term success of your effort
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    • We’ve designed our action plans to be completed in the order of steps laid out and explained why each step is important
    • Customising your action plan lets you set your own completion dates, assign tasks to others and get notifications
    • Helpful tools are provided for certain steps while a tracking metric at the end will help you determine the long-term success of your effort
    • A downloadable PDF version of each action plan is available if you’d like to compete it offline

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    How will I know if my action plan is working?

    Customer survey results

    Customer surveys provide feedback on your offering

    Why this metric?

    Customer feedback surveys help you gather more information about which customers are buying from you and why.

    How do I start tracking?

    Include a short online survey in a follow-up email that thanks them for buying from your business. Collect the responses over six months to examine how customers view your business.