NOTE: To learn WHY this is so important to your business, read my article on Niche Marketing.

In today’s economy, defining your niche business is not only important, it’s critical.

Let’s say you’re a plumber and you have a website. Well, plumber is a fairly broad definition of an industry. By narrowing it down to a more specific niche market you can clearly define your best customer, ready to buy.

Niche Keywords Bring Paying Customers

How?  I’m glad you asked.

Think about your best customers.  Now describe them: the age, the sex, where he or she lives, whether or not they have kids, how much money they make – shoot, give ‘em a name (Bob). In doing so you’ll save time, energy, and money, and know exactly how to get them to your website.

Your business will be more profitable and knock out the competition, whose – chances are – niche market isn’t defined.

So, what exactly is a niche business?

A business that focuses on very specific products or services.

Back to the plumber. By appealing to smaller segments of larger markets, especially online, you can target the very specific long-tail (multi-word) keywords that people are typing into Google.

If you’re market is people in Small Town, State, USA and you specialize in residential plumbing, then your website should be optimized to be found by all of the people typing into Google: “residential plumbing small town, state”.

“Plumber”, alone, is going to be a little bit more difficult to optimize. Besides, it could be someone in “Big City” looking for a plumber – - of little value to you. But, the guy typing in “residential plumbing in your town, state” – probably knows EXACTLY what he’s looking for and he’s ready to buy.

By breaking the market into keywords, you can clearly target your customers. Your website should be optimized for search engines with these niche keywords so that you get found online. You’ll also find it’s easier to develop ideas for new products or services that inherently appeal to the specific niche. Bonus!

HERE ARE A FEW TIPS: .

• Refine your product and service until you’ve become a specialist! Trying to be a ‘vendor to the masses’ can lead to high costs without profit while your business slips through your grasp.
• Use the Adwords tool from Google. It’s free and a simple way to see which keywords are being typed directly into Google, This will also help you define your target market by knowing what customers are looking for today.

People purchase products or services for three reasons:

• To satisfy a basic need
• To solve a problem
• To make themselves feel good.

Your products or services should be the solution to the keywords being typed into Google. In some cases this may fall under many long-tail keywords, such as a restaurant. Hungry people come in to eat, and so they don’t have to prepare a meal and clean up after it. Or, maybe it’s for entertainment: they’re traveling or hosting clients. It all comes down to properly zeroing in on your target market segment.

Finally, research, research, and research!

Is your product or service international, national, or local? Does it matter? You can research a specific area or community’s demographic. Information like this is widely available via the Internet, there’s really no excuse to not know. Narrow down your target to your niche market’s demographics. Where do they live? Local market targeting is one of the best ways to get a business found online today. Yes, it really is that easy!

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