That's a discussion as old as, well, social media :)
It's very tricky, and I don't believe there is one truth.
Blocking might make the feel empowered and if they read your posts through other means, you will not know.
A follow back would depend on your general social media strategy. I don't know who you normally like to follow, but following back could look like a "I see you".
Remove as follower could be a smart move, as it shouldn't send a notification, but your posts might still show up less in the timeline.
Generally, i don't like changing my behaviour because of other people. So I would go with "ignore". At least mostly. You can take it as a reminder, that you never know who is reading your posts.
The things I liked best when people talked about dealing with competition were, "have amazing customer support" and "have a better product".
Yeah it's a fair point to just keep on doing what I'm doing. Thanks for the reminder there, I usually tend to think like that anyway. For some reason this bothered me a bit more than usual!
I get it. There was a mix of frustration, anger but also validation, when other devs cloned #vendordetailsomo. It felt like an accomplishment for the project and work to be worthy enough of imitation. Isn't that called the highest form of flattery?
If somebody deems you relevant enough to follow your progress, you might have made an impression on them.
Maybe it will come to you in the next days, why it bothered you.
It might not be the follow at all, but a reminder of something else. Especially, if they feel like a real threat to your business.
The last time someone cloned my app I wasn't worried because the clone was terrible and I could tell they were the type of person to give up after 5 minutes.
This time, I think it's just that this competitor actually seems to have a good product. But ultimately, I think I just need to listen to customers and not pay too much attention to what this person is doing with their business.
That's a discussion as old as, well, social media :)
It's very tricky, and I don't believe there is one truth.
Blocking might make the feel empowered and if they read your posts through other means, you will not know.
A follow back would depend on your general social media strategy. I don't know who you normally like to follow, but following back could look like a "I see you".
Remove as follower could be a smart move, as it shouldn't send a notification, but your posts might still show up less in the timeline.
Generally, i don't like changing my behaviour because of other people. So I would go with "ignore". At least mostly. You can take it as a reminder, that you never know who is reading your posts.
The things I liked best when people talked about dealing with competition were, "have amazing customer support" and "have a better product".
Yeah it's a fair point to just keep on doing what I'm doing. Thanks for the reminder there, I usually tend to think like that anyway. For some reason this bothered me a bit more than usual!
I get it. There was a mix of frustration, anger but also validation, when other devs cloned
#vendordetailsomo. It felt like an accomplishment for the project and work to be worthy enough of imitation. Isn't that called the highest form of flattery?
If somebody deems you relevant enough to follow your progress, you might have made an impression on them.
Maybe it will come to you in the next days, why it bothered you.
It might not be the follow at all, but a reminder of something else. Especially, if they feel like a real threat to your business.
The last time someone cloned my app I wasn't worried because the clone was terrible and I could tell they were the type of person to give up after 5 minutes.
This time, I think it's just that this competitor actually seems to have a good product. But ultimately, I think I just need to listen to customers and not pay too much attention to what this person is doing with their business.