Find Your Niche, Find Your Foundation

You’re working hard molding your online business into a success. You sacrifice time, money, sweat and tears. You have an opt in list and you regularly send updates and information on your product or service. So why isn’t your business raging with success?

A common misconception is that setting your sights on the general public as your customers will help your business grow fast. The thought of reaching thousands of people about your particular product and or service sounds spectacular. Surely it would rake in twice as many customers as you have now. That, however, is not necessarily the results you may find. If you are selling specialized dog houses, you may not want to send your sales page to Oscar the kitty’s owner. You are simply wasting your time and annoying Oscar’s owner. However, Fido would love the doghouse and probably anything else you would make for him, so why not search out more Fido owners?

Your specialized niche may be a small base. For example, not many people may be origami specialist, but the few out there would frequents your site time and again if you aim it towards them. You do not need a large client base to have a successful business, you just need interested customers. Concentrate on your niche, design your site and emails to accommodate them. If you focus on your niche you will find that those clients appreciate your efforts. So many businesses try to go general, and many people dislike that approach. No one wants to wade through hours of information just to find the small section they are interested in.

By finding your niche and aiming your advertisement, emails, and information towards them you will find that potential customers will be more likely to give your site a chance. By making information and product that your niche is interested in readily available will make them more likely to spend the money to buy it then. Anything that will save your clients time will be a huge convenience that is hard to find now a days.

So don’t let a smaller niche base scare you into thinking you have a weak business foundation. Smaller does not always mean weaker. A smaller, loyal niche can provide you with a prosperous future of loyal customers.