Not exact matches
It's carved out a
niche in the
market between local firms that do smaller residential or commercial projects and the highly integrated companies like PCL, Eastern, EllisDon and Hatch.
Some
niche markets have already begun to harness the power of bloggers
in moving their products.
And the massive amount of consolidation that's swept over the Canadian media sector
in recent years — Bell, Rogers and Shaw have a lock on much of the
market — has created openings for a nimble, smaller player that can fill
niches in a TV universe overwhelmed by me - too reality shows.
«And especially
in these smaller
niche markets, the customers can easily tell.
He says they are one of the
niches he has found to set himself apart
in a fiercely competitive
market.
At that time, they were
niche in the educational
market.
But as the
market has diversified (craft beer sales now represent 19 % of B.C.'s beer
market),
niches and specialities develop; yet there's no allowance
in most Canadian
markets for a store that offers, say, only lambic beers or just fine whiskeys.
«The bulk of it is going to be solar, with wind being
in very important
niche markets here and there.
Her Toronto - based company, Creative
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in technology, media and
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«The big platforms haven't been ignoring the fact that [influencer
marketing] has moved well beyond money between the couch cushions,» she adds, noting that Google and Twitter both have made strategic investments
in the space, acquiring FameBit and
Niche, respectively.
If possible, create your own
niche, and traditionally, the first
in the segment have been the
market leaders.
Shkreli's basic modus operandi
in the biopharma sphere was to take
niche drugs
in treatment spaces where U.S. patients have few options (although those medicines may very well have been approved and available
in other countries) and bring them to
market, after which he'd maintain carte blanche on the products» prices.
It is best to look for
niche markets that are not served or underserved
in your industry to start, as they are the easiest and most affordable to gain traction.
Durrant added that Shkreli's modus operandi of acquiring (and then raising the price of)
niche products with few competitors
in order to corner certain therapeutic
markets will not persist.
«The costs to develop a new airplane
in this category are so huge, but it's still a
niche market,» says Viking CEO David Curtis.
In the U.S., not surprisingly, Yardstick doesn't have such complete command of its
market niches.
For example, if you and two competitors are competing
in a
niche industry, working together to raise awareness of the
market and desire for a specific type of product or service offering could benefit everyone involved.
Have they worked with anyone else
in your specific
market or vertical
niche?
They will need to identify
niches, understand customer needs
in specific
markets, and differentiate themselves through constant innovation.
Particularly
in niche markets like petite apparel where designers have largely neglected the
market, this type of approach gives women options they've never had before and designers access to new revenue streams.
Well, I had written a paper at Stanford business school about the Japanese shoe business having a
niche in the shoe - business
market.
Yesterday, Alan Murray — Time Inc.'s Chief Content Officer and author of the must - read CEO Daily — and I visited the East Village offices of Oscar Health, the hip, data - centric insurer that has found a
niche in the ACA exchange
market.
In a
niche market, there's often no room for scaling into a multi-billion dollar company, which are the companies that get Series B.
Your
niche defines
in more specific terms what your
market really is.
For the next six years, I spent time bouncing from magazine to magazine across sales,
marketing, and editorial, desperately trying to find my
niche in order to rise the ranks.
A freer trade
in agricultural products also engenders innovation and the development of new
markets: Turner points to the way Regina - based AGT Food and Ingredients (formerly Alliance Grain Traders) has carved out new and expanding
niches for Canadian - grown lentils.
«It suggests that this
niche in the
market is becoming mainstream enough that they feel their delivery system might have traction with it.»
If you're
in construction and strong demand outstrips supply as is the case
in certain areas
in Texas, for instance, you'll have a better opportunity to be part of an expanding category or
niche, even if it's
in a slow or sluggish
market.
Like many SaaS companies, Dyn started as a small
niche player
in an important corner of the Internet — Managed DNS — and slowly carved out a space, honing our product and beating competitors on service, pricing, relationships and added - value until we grew to be the
market leader.
CEO Shah and his Cornell classmate Steve Conine started out with racksandstands.com
in 2002 and quickly expanded, buying dozens of
niche domain names and launching many from scratch—simplydogbeds.com, justshagrugs.com, dinnerplates.com — and
in 2011 changing the company name from CSN Stores to Wayfair (700 employees went on a Boston bar crawl
in Wayfair T - shirts to help
market the new name).
What to consider: Fujitsu is fighting for a
niche in the dreadfully crowded tablet
market — tablet computers may be the fastest to - commodity item ever produced.
There are enough
niche markets that there will be opportunities for everyone,» he says, adding that he anticipates a swell
in market demand.
By the time a company completes a project outside its
niche, the real competitors
in that space will have already developed superior solutions and brought them to
market.
Even
in a
niche market, there is bound to be competition.
Everyone
in the segment has been trying to get a piece of this new
niche market, and fancy burgers are popping up everywhere.
You can find
market boosters
in any
niche.
Secunda grumbled about how much Bloomberg was spending to break into the new
market in a big way, rather than targeting a small
niche.
They felt an online company focused on a specific demographic could ignore geography and find a
niche in the global
market, and they could run it right from their Montreal neighbourhood.
Niche marketing can be extremely cost effective if you keep three things
in mind:
Far too many company founders think people want to know about their company when
in fact very few people do or you actually only reach a
niche market.
Reim has since decided that the fellow had a point, and he's now plowing more of his profits back into
marketing, with the goal of making SimStar the clear leader
in its
niche.
Thanks to establishing their
market niche and building on it, the firm's export business has boomed
in the past five years, jumping from $ 261,000
in 2007 to more than $ 4 million
in 2012.
At the same time, online photofinishers have seized upon technological advances to carve out an Internet - based
niche in the photo - processing
market, which has traditionally been dominated by industry giants like Eastman Kodak Co..
Burger King recently moved to fill that
niche with
marketing aimed at the traditional fast - food demographic, as
in young men.
More developing nations are welcoming foreign tourists and increasingly stable political climates
in some areas now boast a
market of
niche tour operators.
Incorporated
in 1993, Justice has since rocketed to revenues of $ 55 million, parlaying success
in a teeny
niche market to virtual domination of certain segments of the global phone business.
Zipcar's
niche has focused serving people
in urban
markets who don't own cars but who have a need to use one from time to time.
When it comes to content
marketing, it's important to get out of the sales mindset to reach a wide audience and create a genuine interest
in the
niche you are promoting.