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<\/a>\nLet me give you an example.<\/b>
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\nWhen Sheila Scarborough sat down to draw our target market for Tourism Currents, the center circle included Convention and Visitor Bureaus and Destination Marketing Organizations. Then she realized there were more concentric circles, of Main Street organizations, trails groups, cities, museums, hotels, convention centers, and on and on. These were people who did similar work and would be able to benefit from our courses, without being our main target. Many people from these concentric markets have been attracted to what we do, and are learning with us now. By narrowing our niche, we widened our opportunity.<\/p>\n
Why It Works<\/b>
\nYou aren’t cutting down your list of potential customers. You are cutting down the list of people who are a bad match, so you can put yourself in service of the people who are an exact match.<\/p>\n
Narrowing your niche forces you to select an exact target. It helps you to say no to things that don’t fit. That in turn gives you time to say yes to the things that matter.<\/p>\n
“Being remarkable also means being ignored or actively disliked,” Seth Godin said<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sure, you can go on being all things to all people. But by keeping that wide open definition, you are cutting down your opportunity to succeed.<\/p>\n Agree? Disagree? Share your experience in the comments.<\/p>\n Related: How to narrow down your mission<\/a> to find that niche in the first place.<\/strong><\/p>\n New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? Get our updates<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Connect & Form Community: 2021 Social Media Best Practices, by Cheryl Lawson, Crossroads Communications, LLC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The narrower your niche, the wider your opportunity. Sounds contradictory, doesn’t it? It seems like if you chose a narrower niche, you’ll have fewer potential customers. Actually, it works just the opposite in the real world. Let me give you an example. When Sheila Scarborough sat down to draw our target market for Tourism Currents, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,7],"tags":[104],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15047,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/15047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Quoted in:<\/h2>\n