Bloggers are your friends
In the real world, a competitor is a competitor: I mean, except in very rare cases, nobody would ever dream to ally with a competitor.
The blogosphere is however a bit different: everybody, if he has something to say and has enough credibility and style, has the power to be heard, and the first that hear him are exactly his/her competitors. In this scenery cooperation among bloggers, even if the blogs are related to the same niche, is not impossible.
What a blogger should do is to create relationships with other blogs by trackingback them if they say something you find useful. Comment them, create articles on the posts of the other bloggers. Write, write, write. And be sure also to try exchanging ideas, reciprocal links and such with the other bloggers: being referred by others is the only method to succeed.
