# Do you mark your competitors? **URL:** \ **Category:** Tips, Tricks & Best Practices\ **Tags:** professional\ **Created:** [February 3, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/do-you-mark-your-competitors/125335 "2025-02-03T21:10:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ozgesilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cdc98d/32.png) [@ozgesilla](https://community.hubspot.com/u/ozgesilla)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/do-you-mark-your-competitors/125335/1 "2025-02-03T21:10:41Z")
How do you manage the list of competitors in the CRM? I am thinking of importing them and marking them as competitors so that I can exclude them from all upcoming marketing events. This would also be beneficial for all CRM stakeholders to be aware of them. How do you manage this? ---
**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/do-you-mark-your-competitors/125335/2 "2025-02-04T05:05:34Z")
Hi @ozgesilla, There are two things I’d recommend here: 1. Create a property ‘Contact type’ with options like ‘Potential customer / customer’, ‘Employee’, ‘Partner’, ‘Competitor’ (this field can be handy in other cases than just marking competitors) 2. Create a contact-based list that filters for ‘Contact type is any of Competitor’ OR ‘Email domain is any of [email domains of your competitors]’ 3. Create a workflow that sets all contacts on the list who are not yet ‘Contact type’ = competitor to that exact value You would now have a list that auto-updates with new contacts from known competitors based on their email address – and you also have the ability to put contacts there manually by marketing them individually. This list can be used in reports, workflows, emails as an exclusion. Best regards