Your marketing needs to focus with laser-like clarity, not on why your product or service is the best, but rather, what’s best about your product or service. Let me repeat that because this is so important and I don’t want you to misunderstand.

Your marketing should be concentrated on what is best about your product or service instead of why your product or service is perfect.

I see this kind of marketing in small to mid-size businesses all the time. And I’ve ranted on this subject before. Trying to be everything to everyone rather than figuring out your greatest strength and working to dominate that niche. It’s why so many small businesses go belly-up.

For a quick example, I’ll use Lin Colms of Eye 4 Image marketing firm. Lin used to do marketing for pretty much any small to mid-size business. However, he realized that he really wanted to focus on “green” businesses. He felt it was where his greatest strengths lay and his greatest passion.

Before that, I knew Lin was a good marketer but I know a lot of quality marketing firms and if someone asked me to recommend a marketing firm, there was no reason for me to recommend one over another. However, now every time a company with a green product or service asks me for a recommendation, I just give them Lin’s contact information.

Is Lin struggling because he’s decided to narrow his focus to just green products and services? Not on your life. He’s the only marketing firm I know of that exclusively focuses on “green.” People in “green” businesses know each other and word gets around fast…

So, what are the benefits of picking on strong niche and exclusively going after it?

1. More bang for your marketing buck – you can target all your marketing spends on the people and companies in that niche instead of trying to scatter your money all over the place to reach as many as you can.
2. It’s easier – once you’ve picked a target market, it’s pretty easy to figure out what websites, blogs and forums they visit, what magazines they read, what organizations they belong to, what trade shows they visit, what similar product or service companies you could do joint ventures or joint marketing with.
3. Other people become your marketing team – right now, especially if you’re in a BNI group and trying to get others to sell you, most people don’t know how to sell you or recommend you except in the most general terms. However, just like in Lin Colm’s case, once you narrow your focus to a particular, easily indentifiable group, it will be much easier for people to know who to recommend you to and why. You may get less referrals but the quality will go way up!

Bob McClain or WordsmithBob, has been a website copywriter in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, since 2000. He has focused on developing new, more effective approaches to web writing, web content, web copywriting and Search Engine Optimization. Starting with a BA in Technical Communication and a minor in Creative Writing from Metro State University in St. Paul, McClain has worked diligently to end the use of "corp-speak" and "technospeak" online. His approach is to “humanize” the Web, using real information to guide people to buy rather than turning websites into advertisements that people can easily ignore. McClain is also the creator of Cheap SEO Website Marketing, a website devoted to helping people with the best solutions to DIY SEO at an affordable cost with tips and software reviews. More at Cheap SEO Website Marketing

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