subject: Generating Leads and Dominating In Niche Markets [print this page] Author: Maryjean Howe Author: Maryjean Howe
Every year millions of small business owners and entrepreneurs open their businesses only to find that there are several other businesses that are already trying to attract the same customers as them. A new entrepreneur invariably finds going tough as bigger businesses with enormous marketing budgets and gigantic sales force makes generating leads and acquiring customers an extremely difficult task. There is no way a start-up business can directly compete with the much bigger company. However, one creative way that can help entrepreneurs survive and grow in intensely competitive market is if they are able to successfully carve niche markets for themselves. Developing niche markets focuses on identifying a small but focused segment of the potential customers, understanding their unique needs and addressing them by accordingly positioning your business. This is in contrast with the generalized marketing that involves bombarding the entire market with marketing and advertising efforts. Generalized marketing can be an exceptionally expensive way of generating leads and requires a lot of money. On the other hand, promoting your products to niche markets can be an extremely effective and inexpensive way to create a unique and loyal customer base. This marketing reality is being acknowledged by more and more entrepreneurs today. Generating leads and focusing on niche markets makes business sense for small business owners as big companies cannot survive only by focusing on these markets and therefore, often ignore them. This is why you will find that in every market, while there are numerous products, only two types of companies will be able to sustain in the long run. First, we have companies that have endless money to spend on marketing budgets to cater to entire market and the others those that have identified small but unique segments in this market and have positioned their product to cater only to these niche markets. Here are some of the proven tips that will help a business generate leads from niche markets it wants to target: Focus on research: After you identify the niche markets for your business, you must strive to know everything there is to know about them. Their demographics, purchasing behavior, income groups, likes and dislikes. This will help you devise an effective strategy that will enable you to generate leads. Use the same language as your customer: All niche markets have a particular language and terms that they can relate to. When you use their language, you can quickly get them to relate to your business and become attracted toward it. Be there with them: A great way of generating leads is to reach out to your customer segment and show your presence in all social activities, functions and events related to this community. Soon the niche market will associate your product with their segment. Tap them Online: Every customer segment has their online presence, social groups and communities. Your business can be successful in generating leads by reaching out to the niche markets by using various online methods such as website, email, blogs, social media and online ads. For more information or to learn how to work with Maryjean, go to http://MaryjeanAHowe.net/?t=ab1.9About the Author:
Maryjean Howe is a professional internet marketer and business coach based out of Oceanside, CA. She works with people to help them start a business and continues to help them use training materials to effectively run a successful business. Maryjean has worked with people from all different backgrounds to help them start a business without any experience.
