Three Ways to Define a Niche

By Steve Blalock

Sometimes defining a niche market can be a hard thing to do. It can be easy to get confused and then not be able to use niche marketing to your advantage.

Niche marketing is really a specialized market. It is the target audience you are going to be selling your products to.

Having and selling to a niche market can make the best use of your advertising dollars, as well as, help you get the most profit.

In order to be able to use niche marketing to your advantage, though, you have to be able to define niche marketing. Here are the three keys you need to know about niche marketing that will help you define what it is and what it means:

1. Niche marketing is based upon a group of people with a similar interest in your service or product. Quite simply, your niche market is going to be people who have a need for your product or service and are going to want to buy your product. For example, if you sell diapers then your niche market is going to be comprised of people who have a child that wears diapers.

2. Niche marketing addresses a specific need. Your niche market must have a specific need for your product. They have to have a reason to buy from you. For example, if you sell diapers, then your niche market will need diapers because their child needs to wear them.

3. Niche marketing will serve the purpose of addressing the need that is not being addressed elsewhere. This does not mean that there are no other similar products out there, but that those products are not completely fulfilling your markets needs. You have to offer something different to your niche market. For example, you might sell diapers that have an elastic waistband. Before your product diapers did not have an elastic waist band and parents were demanding that need be filled.

So, in review, your niche market is going to be a specific group of people who have a need for your product that is not be addressed by anyone else. Your niche market should be comprised of these three factors so you can benefit from the marketing process. You can not make good use of the niche marketing process if you do not figure in all three factors. These three key factors are what makes niche marketing work and they are the key to your success.

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