Chapter 210 Learn from your opponents, not beat them, October 12

Our daily energy is still spent on studying the shortcomings of the current products and how to improve them.Continuous research on competitors is to see which practices are worth learning from.In this sense, Google, Alibaba, and even Sina, if you go further, such as Zhengtu, they actually all have some good practices, which are worth learning from.Studying competitors and learning their strengths is where we should spend our energy instead of thinking about how to beat our opponents every day. The day after Baidu announced its entry into the C2C market, Yu Jun said in an interview with Baidu insiders that Baidu's entry into the C2C market can bring competition and development.Only with the possibility of more competitors participating in the business in the search field can the commercial value of the industry be truly unearthed and the needs of users can be better met.Competition can allow each other to constantly discover their own weaknesses and learn from each other's strengths, and a dominance of one family can easily lead to inertia.

In this regard, competitors also admit that multi-party competition is very important to the healthy development of the entire industry.Lu Weixing, head of Taobao's public relations department, said that the addition of Baidu is a good thing for China's online shopping market.eBay stated that healthy competition can promote the improvement of the C2C market. "The domestic C2C market has huge development potential, and more capable peers are needed to participate in it to explore a model that is more suitable for the healthy development of China's e-commerce market." Learn from the strengths of competitors and make up for your own weaknesses.