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Stealing Market Share: How to Target Your Competitors' Audiences

The most qualified prospects are often already engaging with your competitors' content. Instead of cold outreach, smart GTM teams systematically target competitors' audiences who are already educated about the problem and actively researching solutions.

Ivan Kovpak avatar
Written by Ivan Kovpak
Updated over 3 months ago

Why Competitive Targeting Works

  • Pre-Qualified Intent: Prospects already understand the problem and solution category

  • Shortened Sales Cycles: Skip awareness and education phases

  • Higher Conversion Rates: Engaged prospects convert 3-5x better than cold audiences

  • 2nd-Party Intent Signals: High-quality engagement data from competitor interactions

Available Competitive Intelligence Signals

Use these Unstuck Engine signals to capture competitor audiences:

Direct Post Engagement:

  • "Find posts of selected competitors and extract ICP from likers"

  • "Find posts of selected competitors and extract ICP from commenters"

Event and Community Intelligence:

  • "Extract ICP from event attendees" - for competitor-hosted events

  • "Extract ICP from group members" - for competitor-owned LinkedIn groups

Brand Monitoring:

  • "Find posts with selected keywords and extract ICP from likers" - using competitor brand names

  • "Find posts with selected keywords and extract ICP from commenters" - using competitor brand names

  • "Find posts with selected hashtags and extract ICP from likers" - using competitor hashtags

  • "Find posts with selected hashtags and extract ICP from commenters" - using competitor hashtags

Network Intelligence:

  • "Extract ICP from your competitors' mutual connections" - shared LinkedIn connections

Setup Process

Step 1: Identify Your Competitors

Create a list of:

  • Primary competitors (direct feature overlap)

  • Adjacent competitors (related solutions for same ICP)

  • Emerging competitors (new funded players)

Step 2: Configure Competitive Signals

Set up relevant signals in Unstuck Engine:

  1. Navigate to Signals tab

  2. Select competitor engagement signals

  3. Input competitor company names, brand keywords, or hashtags

  4. Click "Run" to activate monitoring

All competitor content will be automatically processed and prospects will be qualified against your ICP and persona models.

Step 3: Review Results in Records

Monitor qualified competitive prospects in your Records tab:

  • View ICP scores and persona matches

  • See engagement context (which competitor content they engaged with)

  • Access complete prospect profiles with 50+ data points

  • Export qualified prospects for outreach campaigns

Implementation Examples

For SaaS Competitors:

  • Monitor posts from competitor executives about product updates

  • Track engagement on competitor customer success stories

  • Capture prospects engaging with competitor pricing announcements

For Service Competitors:

  • Track webinar attendees from competitor events

  • Monitor engagement on competitor case study posts

  • Capture prospects in competitor-specific LinkedIn groups

For Brand Monitoring:

  • Use competitor brand names as keywords to find all mentions

  • Track hashtags like #CompetitorName or #CompetitorConference

  • Monitor prospects discussing competitor solutions

This systematic approach transforms your competitors' content marketing investments into your qualified prospect pipeline, ensuring you're always engaging with prospects who understand your market and are actively evaluating solutions.

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