7 Free OSINT Methods for Small Business Research

Competitive Intelligence Tools That Reveal What Your Rivals Are Planning Next

von Tavion Selcrest

232 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Your competitors are making their next move right now - and leaving a trail of free public signals you are not watching yet. Most small business owners find out what rivals are doing the same way they find out about bad weather: after it has already arrived.

This book teaches seven completely free OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) methods - the same techniques used by journalists and investigators - adapted for small business owners with no budget and no technical background. By the end, you will have a complete competitive intelligence system that tells you what competitors are planning before they announce it, running in under 30 minutes per week.

What you will learn:

- Execute a complete competitor profile using only free public sources in under 60 minutes- Identify early competitor product launch signals by monitoring job postings and patent filings- Decode competitor pricing strategy shifts using public website archives and review data- Map a rival's technology stack and vendor relationships from domain intelligence tools- Detect a competitor's new market expansion before it is announced using regulatory and permit databases- Build a repeatable weekly competitive intelligence system that takes under 30 minutes to run- Distinguish meaningful competitive signals from noise using a three-dimension signal scoring matrix- Use Google Dorks and advanced search operators to surface internal competitor documents and presentations- Analyze competitor social media and executive activity to predict strategic pivots>The seven methods cover Google Dorks, the Wayback Machine, job posting intelligence, review platform mining, domain and tech stack analysis, patent and public filing databases, and social media and executive tracking. Each method is free. None require technical skills. All are legal and ethical.

This book is for small business owners, lean-team operators, and solo founders who want the same competitive intelligence advantage that large companies pay analysts to produce - without the budget, the tools, or the headcount.

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• ISBN: 9798192586433
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.08.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp