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This sales article [1] talks about focussing on a specific niche (Recipe blogs => Paleo recipe blogs => Paleo recipe blogs run by women), and then creating an e
by nathan_f77 7y ago
This sales article [1] talks about focussing on a specific niche (Recipe blogs => Paleo recipe blogs => Paleo recipe blogs run by women), and then creating an echo chamber within that specific niche. This helps you spread by word of mouth, or you point to existing customers within that niche when selling to others.
> Once you are the big fish in a very small pond then you want to jump over into a neighboring pond. The tendency is to immediately go mainstream, but you probably don’t yet have enough traction for that. Once we found success with a subset of fitness blogs I looked for others in a similar industry. So we went from interval training blogs, to running blogs, to powerlifting blogs. Then from there it’s easy to step into the diet/recipe blogs that have overlap.
Instead of trying to become the best in "your corner of the country", you could focus on the corner of some specific niches.
[1] https://nathanbarry.com/sales/ https://nathanbarry.com/sales/
- dumbfoundded 7y agoI 100% agree with this. Now that geographic barriers are coming down, you have to offer something unique and specialized. This is an incredible trend. It forces people to come up with unique and better products for particular use cases. It allows people in poor underdeveloped areas to have access to global markets. For my company for example, we work in Southern Oregon (one of the least industrially developed places on the West Coast), we have a support team in Costa Rica, a designer in India and we sell products nationally that people cannot find locally.