A Guide to Niche Marketing

jturner • Aug 31, 2020

The key to any online business is to know who you are selling to. The more specific your audience is, the easier it is to market to them. Though there are many marketing strategies out there to help you sell your product, niche marketing, or narrowing down your target audience to a very specific group and marketing only towards them,can be very effective for both as mall online business as well as one that is more firmly established.

Why You Should Use Niche Marketing

Niche marketing is a cheaper way to gain a client base. Since you are not marketing towards a huge host of people, you can spend your money where it will get results. You do not need to focus on the needs of the many,

you can simply focus on the customers you want and target them directly.

This marketing strategy is ideal for entrepreneurs and small-business owners. Without an entire marketing department at your disposal, or billions of dollars in your marketing budget, you can't afford to use large amounts of money for little customer conversion. Instead, niche marketing targets a large percentage of your smaller market, making sure each dollar spent on marketing goes along way.

How to Establish Your Niche

If you're going to use niche marketing, you'll have to establish your niche. You can either do this intentionally, by focusing your marketing strategy from the get-go, or you can discover your niche along the way as you gain

and retain customers.

For niche marketing, smaller is better. Your goal is to individualize your marketing strategy towards a small number of people and therefore convert a large percentage of your target market. Though it may seem that you're

ignoring important and lucrative target audiences, focusing your marketing efforts on your niche will give you a higher volume of sales,and more consistent customers.

For example, if you are selling boots, your target audience could be people living in cold-weather areas. You can further narrow your market by targeting those who go on long winter expeditions. You can further narrow

your market by targeting backpackers who need lightweight footwear. This is your niche.

Your niche will not include a huge amount of people. It should be small enough that a large percentage of customers within your niche market will buy your product.

How to Use Your niche

Utilizing your niche market in online business means individualizing both your product and the ways that you communicate with your customers. Whether it be through emails, social media posts, or any other online

presence, you want to cater to your niche.

In the snow boots example, for instance, a blog on your company website should not include anything about work boots or any other type of shoe. Instead, it should have posts about winter expeditions or other ways that

your niche market can use your product.

If you're effectively targeting your niche market, most of your marketing will be done byword-of-mouth. Customers who like your products will talk to others, who will then buy your product. This does not mean you

disregard online marketing. Use your online marketing to generate interest in your product so that a large percentage of your market will convert.

Finding and utilizing a niche market is an excellent way to convert your marketing budget into customers. Use your knowledge about your niche to personalize your content and marketing towards those who really want to

buy your product, which will generate word-of-mouth marketing along with your online efforts. Word-of-mouth marketing ensures that your customers advertise for you and promote your product to those more likely to

buy.

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Have a great marketing day!

Talk soon,

Sean

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