Don't be afraid to learn from your enemies, as well as your online
competitors. The old saying goes:Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. And, that applies even more to online business competitors who can teach you how they get the results you want to get for yourself, without having to dig things up on your own.
Of course, you can't just go up to a competitor and ask them for all their trade secrets. No one in their right mind would ever divulge the secrets to their business success, unless there was something in it for them. However, unlike old-fashioned corporate spying, online business spying does not require that you engage in surveillance training and illegal theft of company records. Instead, you can simply choose to put on your Internet spy glasses and walk the trail that your competitor has left you through many of the same Internet tools that you've used day in and day out, except this time, you will use them to keep tabs on your competitors activities online.