Spend some time
thinking about your niche and your name because these will probably stick with you for a while.
Odd how this, from the design perspective, chimes with the discussion over at Mike Shatzkin's blog yesterday and
my thinking about Niche Veritcals.
What do
you think about niche bestseller lists like the ones the NYT are proposing?
For now, take a small break and
think about your niche and what you are passioned about.
But we should
think about the niche and category it has been designed for.
Not exact matches
I recently sat down with executive leaders from CenterCal Properties in El Segundo, Calif., to learn how developers are
thinking strategically
about these
niche communities.
Local SEO is a highly targeted,
niche strategy that every entrepreneur can — and should — be
thinking about.
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.
Some products may be
niche to an area, but ultimately,
think about creating things that can help people no matter where they live.
But instead of running a nationwide chain of newspapers the Winnipeg native knew he wanted to focus on television, which got him
thinking about lucrative
niche markets, which led him specialty cable networks that target an underserved audience.
thinking about that as a
niche, or at least the jewelry... not sure - I am too overwhelmed right now and just hoping it gets a little easier or slightly less terrifying... been looking for online work that did not seem like a total scam for almost a year now, and so far has not felt easier or less exhausting and have had no results yet....
You have to
think about whether or not your
niche will have a lot of competition on YouTube.
Think about complementary products or a «
niche of
niche», but whatever you do don't try to jump on the latest bestsellers bandwagon!
I
think most entrepreneurs, rather than making a mistake in picking a
niche, make a mistake in «playing at business» — getting business cards, spending tons of time on optimizing their website, etc — before they need to worry
about any of that.
Most people like to see their content accessed widely and so can learn some great tips (as well as read some good content) from these blogs, but «most popular» doesn't always mean «best» I'd say that for any blogger a key to judging your own success is to
think about the purpose and intended audience of you blog — if you have a
niche audience in a specific location you may not get a huge following but if you set out to acheive something worthwhile through your blog and you achieve it then that counts as success.
Brendan: Eh, I
think it gets a bit tiresome and we end up always talking waaaay too much
about the course each and every day, and that's a quick way to get into
niche stuff and turn off everyone but the already committed (and smaller) l golf audience.
I
think about «
niche» cooking in my spare time, for fun (yeah, I see you all backing slowly away).
The web naturally breaks down into topics, categories and communities of interest, so I
think we'll be talking
about niche marketing for a long time!
The recent discussion
about Politico.com's traffic «stickiness» got me
thinking about the different strategies behind building a
niche audience vs. building a mass audience.
There are a ton of tips out there
about building blog traffic, but the best advice seems to come down to this: define your
niche, post good content, post frequently, pitch your articles to other sites if you
think the authors might be interested (but don't overdo it), and look for other sites that might run your articles with a link back to your main site.
Let's
think about another implication of the spread of social networking tools beyond the handful of mass sites and into
niches.
What's more, work with animals has led to the idea that personality traits evolve to help individuals survive in a wider variety of ecological
niches, and this is influencing the way psychologists
think about human personality.
Just
think of eBay's original target audience: people who buy and sell Pez dispensers —
about as
niche as it gets.
Similar organizations exist for just
about every
niche you can
think of, and in many communities there's a local chapter.
After we had written a book on
niche construction, I started to
think about how the cultural evolution work and the
niche construction work would interact.
Finding a
niche for perovskites in an industry so dominated by silicon, however, requires
thinking about solar energy in creative ways.
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, who began to be interested in the role of cooperation in evolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related
niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to
think before it is too late
about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals and plants.
I've been
thinking a lot
about Instagram lately and whether or not I want to use it for my blog / tailor my posts towards my blog
niche.
Think about what
niche you would like the most!
I LOVE your realization
about blogging... I
think we all went through that at one point and everyone is finding their
niches and voices and that, my friend is a great thing, because I love yours.
I
think one of the biggest challenges is staying true to what your
niche is and what you blog
about.
There are
about 20 more «
niche» Friend Finder sites based upon everything from nationality to age to pretty much anything you can possibly
think of, they have it.
When you
think about it, such a community is a
niche all its own.
In this case I am
thinking of pages such as the first one they did
about military pen pals, namely Military Pen Pals, as well as more specific
niche pages such as Army Pen Pals and US Military Pen Pals.
Anna: It's all
about having a
niche offering I
think.
However, one of the most important things when considering using a
niche dating site, it is important for you to
think carefully, not just regarding your own interest in the
niche, but also
about this as a pursuit for a lifetime potential partner.
Just
think about it: mentioning these sorts of careers on a regular dating site might prompt a potential partner to start bolting towards the virtual exit, so it's good that there's this
niche dating network for people in the industry.
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With that in mind and with those that don't have a
niche, here are some hot dating markets you can
think about getting into as well as expanding upon.
It's certainly
niche, definitely esoteric, but for those that it does tickle, (especially those who have a friend to play with in real, physical space), it's the kind of experience that is unlike anything I can
think of, and since first coming across it years ago, has been talked
about with a sense of wistful nostalgia by anyone I know who's played it.
For those of you who don't, you have to understand: This game isn't
niche, it's the game that
niche games
think about when they want to feel mainstream.
As I recall, I said the exact same thing
about the last movie directed by Louis Leterrier, Unleashed, so I
think he has found a
niche job in case directing big budget action flicks doesn't pan out.
The Mazdaspeed 3 sits in its own performance / price
niche, but that still wouldn't keep me from seriously
thinking hard
about cars on both sides of the Mazda, from Subaru and Volkswagen.
With all the different truck segments in the U.S. one would
think that just
about all are filled to capacity, but Nissan has found an interesting
niche between the 1500/150 and the 2500/250 truck offerings.
As you begin the process of becoming a published eBook author,
think about the specific
niche topic you will write
about, the way you will monetize your writing, and where you want to go after your eBook is finished.
Take some time to
think about it and possibly jot down who you should be interacting with based on your particular
niche or brand.
When determining your
niche,
think about demogrpahics such as gender, age, geography, and life experiences.
Unlikely but still fun to
think about;) I'd be most excited for Viz releasing the more
niche stuff, as they do with their Sig line, because of the high quality but good prices.
Did you write it to raise awareness
about a topic, to launch your journey as a change maker, or grow your platform as a
thought leader, to help a
niche group with solutions to a problem?
Nhys, I
think your comment
about the speed at which the publishing world is changing is right on — there was a time when I
thought that the non-fiction
niche I'd carve out for myself in the indy publishing world would be around audiobook production and promotion, but it would be a full time job just to stay on top of that quite narrow area!