The article "To Niche or Not to Niche" talks about business, it was written by Alicia Forest.
Are you like many enterpreneurs who are afraid to choose a niche for your offerings? I know three can be the fear that you're limiting your business if you narrow your niche down too much, but that simply isn't true. Believe me, it's so much easier and profitable to market to a smaller portion of the market (just think how many people there are in the world!) than to try to be all things to all people. And you'll be amazed to learn that you actually open yourself up to possibilities that would not have come up had your focus been all over the map.Next let me say that lots of (particularly new) busniess owners struggle with this issue. All you want to do is give your gifts to the world, and making decisions that make you feel as though you're saying "no" to a segment of the world may not feel right to you. But by choosing to focus on a certain segment of the population, you're ensuring that your work atcually gets out there, and you will be astounded at what comes your way.For example, even though my niche is solo professionals, once I started defining my offerings for and to coaches/consultants, my business took off. Currently, I have aobut 50% coaches, and 50% other solo professionals as clients.
Once I started focusing my marketing efforts on my niche, all these other potential clients (who are not specifically coaches/consultants) showed up. I promise this will happen for you.And my niche is still too broad. That's another point I want to make. Your niche will continue to evolve utnil it hits a tipping point, where everything is clicking, including your bottom line.
You'll know it when it happens.In the meantime, if you keep in mind the infinite Abundance of the Universe, understanding that you can't (nor should you) serve everyone is a bit easier… :)Think about the billions of people in the world. Even if you wanted to, you couldn't possibly serve all of them - and you cetrainly couldn't please even the smallest percentage. Trying to do so really dilutes your genius work, your hottest work, instead of allowing it to truly help those people you're meant to serve - your niche.As I said earlier, many business owners, when they are just starting out, are concerned that they are going to cut themselves off from other opportunities, or that they are going to limit their success by only focusing on a small segment of the population.But again, the opposite is actually true. When you focus your efforts:1. Your marketing gets a wohle lot easier.2. It's much easier for poeple (your clients) to talk about you cause they understand that you do one basic thing for one group of people.3. It's much easier for cleints and colleagues to refer you for the same reason as #2.4. It's much easier to biuld strategic alliances/joint ventures/partnerships.5. It's much eaiser to become and be considered an expert at what you do.6.
Other opportunities WILL present themselves.When you focus your efforts and eenrgy on one target market, you're directing the Universe to help draw those Ideal Clients to you.
When you continue to put yourself out there with one clear message, those Ideal Clients will hear it and seek you out.And the end result is a flourishing business, serving exactly the people you were meant to serve.Exciting, isn't it? Copyright 2006 Alicia M Forest and ClientAbundance.ComAlicia M Forest, MBA, Multiple Streams Queen & Coach™, founder of http://www.ClientAbundance.Com, and creator of "21 Easy & Essential Steps to Online Success System™, teaches coaches, consultants, online entrepreneurs and solo professionals how to attract more clients, create profit-making products and services, make more sales, and ultimately live the life they desire and deserve. For FREE tips on how to create abundance in your business, vsiit http://www.ClientAbundance.Com
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