Low & No Cost Marketing – Tools & Tactics for Success

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What Your Marketing Is Really All About

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When you nestle up to your keyboard and start to write your next marketing piece, [...]

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Leveraging Your Expert Status

So, you’ve followed some of my suggestions in this series and have begun to position yourself as the go-to guy or gal within a niche. Great!  Now what? Your work, dear reader, is hardly done. You’ll want to continue your promotional efforts to further cement your expert status … and profit from it.

Continuing your efforts [...]

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Promoting Yourself Within Your Niche

By now, you’ve identified a potentially profitable niche or two. It appears ripe. There’s some competition, so you know it’s viable. The niche is small enough for you to become visible, yet large enough to provide a good amount of work. You’ve done your homework, learned the niche’s ins and outs, identified a few good [...]

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Developing expertise in an industry or project type

Now that you’ve found a nifty niche, it’s time to get up to speed developing your expertise. Let’s start out with an industry niche.

Ideally, you’ve selected a niche area where you have some previous knowledge. If not, don’t sweat it. You can still learn the ins and outs and position yourself as an expert. It’ll [...]

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Identifying Your Niche

When it comes to finding the niche that’s just right for you, it’s a good idea to start with what you know. It simply makes sense to focus on the niches that revolve around your knowledge. You don’t want to start from scratch if you don’t need to do so. For example, I know a [...]

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Nicely Niched – Introduction

When I give a presentation, one of the first things I ask the audience is, “Who buys what you’re selling?” Inevitably, several folks will answer, “Everybody needs what I’m selling.”

Sorry gang. Wrong answer.

The thought of specializing within a target group, or “niche,” is a scary idea for many service professionals. “I don’t want to limit [...]

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