Copy Cats in Small Business

About this episode

Erin discusses the prevalence of copying in small business and shares her personal journey dealing with copycat behavior.

The world is full of copying in terms of content. Every idea is borrowed, all or in part, by someone else, with or without them realizing it. There are very few totally unique ideas. If your business, idea or product is a target of constant copycat behavior, then you are certainly not alone. However, your thoughts and feelings about how to deal with the issue can take you on drastically different paths that could have real implications for your business. This just happened to me and I have gone from pissed, resentful, upset, conflicted and now just ready to share it all with you on my podcast,

Topics covered

• copying
• content creation
• small business
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• copycats
• business implications
• original ideas

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