What is niche marketing
Niche marketing is the term given to the use of a very specific market demographic when promoting a product, as opposed to attempting to sell to a broad audience. The proven premise of niche marketing is that there is a dramatic increase in customer sales to be realized in the narrowing of a target market to only include very specific parameters in desired product, while that market continues to go unserviced.
This is not to say that you must only provide one type of very specific product to be successful. On the contrary, the most successful businesses capitalize on diversity in their ventures to offset the less profitable aspects with the heavy revenue generators. The key to success is to market to a niche. That is, find a small component of your larger customer base that is not being met in its demands and adjust your product and your marketing to cater to that particular niche of your market. Develop specific marketing for that audience that will prove that you understand their particular desires in your product, and then continue to convince this market of the benefits of your product over the competition, if indeed there is any, and how you have met their needs.
As a successful player in niche marketing, ideally you will have little competition for your customer base, as the proper research will determine which niches are going unnoticed, and these will be your customers and yours alone. The balancing act in niche marketing comes with finding a specialized customer base that is large enough to realize profit over costs to produce the product while engaging a market that has been overlooked by the competition.
Keep in mind that niche markets do not last forever. At one time, there was a specialized niche for fuel economical cars. While there is absolutely still a market for fuel economy in an automobile, and it is still referred to as a “market niche”, the truth is that all automakers now have small cars available that are big on fuel economy. So while the market niche is still there, it is no longer an unnoticed market that makes one automaker filthy rich in being the only savvy supplier to this specialized area of the customer base. When searching for a market niche, it is sometimes helpful to look at the majority of your current customers’ desires and then go in the opposite direction to see how many people are looking for a product similar to yours that will fill their particular need.
As competition catches up to you and your niche market, you will have to adapt or improve your product to continue being in the forefront for supply to your niche. As your skill in marketing advances, you will have to seek out new ways to convince your market that your product is still superior to the rest, and in many cases longevity of the product succeeds in this task. Holding the title as being the oldest supplier of a particular product does well in maintenance of a loyal customer base as well as drawing new clientele on the premise that you have been supplying your product the longest, so you are the reigning expert on the product itself.
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