Ignore the competition

Monday July 24th 2006, 2:45 pm

Written by: Brian Benzinger

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Creating Passionate Users has written a great article titled, “Ignore the competition.” To quote the articles introduction, “I’m so tired of seeing so many products with the same features that nobody wants. It’s bad enough to let feature requests from users get out of control, but when we start adding features just because our competitors have them, we’re all screwed.” Tell me about it!

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