Read this piece to learn how your lack of niche-finding contributed to your lack of confidence.
When starting, believing that a beautiful product or service will automatically attract customers is easy. If you’re involved in network marketing, that’s probably what the higher-ups informed you, and it’s probably why you joined. (They didn’t stress the significance of narrowing your target audience to a manageable number, did they?
Products and services that seem to sell themselves off the shelves often have meticulous market research behind them. They are confident in their wares and have experience finding a place for them. They can target the right consumers with their product.
An excellent product or service is only half the equation for effective marketing and sales. There are three components to any effective sales and marketing formula:
Possessing excellent merchandise.
o Determining who your target audience is.
o Knowing your own identity is also crucial.
This study examines the relationship between low self-esteem and these three factors. With our help, identifying your market niche will no longer be a secret.
To break it down, the first half of the sales and marketing formula is an excellent product or service.
A fantastic product or service is apparent, given that most of us discover what we buy solely through personal experience. It’s like meeting the one individual you were meant to be with and falling madly in love with them. That’s the one; you can feel it in your gut.
I believe that the best product or service is the one that you enjoy using yourself. However, when we finally find the real thing, we don’t want anyone else to fall in love with him. It’s illogical to assume that others will share our enthusiasm for a product simply because we do.
However, pride isn’t much of an issue in the first installment.
Part two of the formula for effective sales and marketing is identifying a target audience. This is where it starts to get complicated. There are two stages to discovering a profitable market segment.
First, you conduct a market study, analyze the results and select your target audience.
So that everyone is on the same page, let’s define a specialty and a target market.
A market’s specialty is its most specific subset. A call is a comprehensive business sector. I’ll explain with an illustration.
Say the item you’ve fallen for is a skin treatment set. Then, you’re competing in the cosmetics market. The skin care, hair care, nail care, and even pedi-care are some of the many specializations within the more significant beauty business. You can get even more specific, talking about skincare for teenagers, mothers, dads, men, dogs, etc.
Step two of identifying a market niche and determining your target market involves this further subdivision.
The people who will benefit the most from what you have to offer are your target market. Women over 35 (since younger women likely don’t have lines yet) are a possible target demographic for a skincare product aimed at the affluent and cultured.
Researching your industry is the first stage in identifying a niche market, and placing your ideal customer is the second.
Sounds simple, and perhaps it isn’t immediately clear how poor self-esteem complicates matters. So let’s begin market research and see where that takes us.
Our hunt for supply and demand in the market continues. Who is purchasing, how many people are buying, and what are they buying? The offeror’s offer quantities and offer methods are also under scrutiny.
Our ideal outcomes would demonstrate both high demand (for skincare) and limited supply. (not very many people selling it).
This is when a lack of confidence begins to mess with your head.
Let’s pretend for a second that you have very low self-esteem and recently purchased (and now have a garage full of) skin care products in the vain hope that they will help you eventually make it and move from the low zone to the higher regions of wealth.
You investigate the market and discover that many others are already selling the same item and that few people are actively looking for it.
When you look hard at your results, it’s natural for you to feel hopeless and frustrated. You have just spent all of your money on face care products. These outcomes cannot be correct. (Because if they are, it means you were wrong.)
The rejection filter begins to affect how you interpret search results. Due to your refusal to accept reality, you will be unable to identify a lucrative market segment.
Now, remember how I mentioned that there are three parts to the effective sales and marketing equation? That’s great because it means you won’t have to scrap your plans altogether if your market research doesn’t pan out how you hoped it would.
Even if you find out that no one desires your product or that there are already too many people selling it, you will be saved by the third section. The third component of the formula for effective sales and marketing is crucial. If you can nail this, you can offer anything to anyone.
Understanding who you are is the third step.
Even if you have a fantastic product to sell and have identified a promising niche market, your company will not succeed unless you actively participate in the process. I want to assist you so that I will be straightforward. Listen up: if you can wrap your head around this, I’ll have solved most of your business woes.
Being aware of YOURSELF. A definition, please.
It indicates an awareness of one’s strength and force. In addition, you understand the skills and abilities you were meant to share with the world. It implies that you are aware that your talents and abilities are only indeed gifts if you use them to benefit others.
It would be best if you first learned to look beyond yourself to discover your true identity.
Let me elaborate on what I mean. Do you believe people are drawn to you when you have poor self-esteem? Even close friends and family may find it challenging to be around you during this time.
While you wallow in self-pity and repeat the refrain, “Poor me, poor me, look at me, I am just a worthless thing,” the world will never know what a treasure you indeed are.
What’s your elapsed lifespan at this point? And you seriously want to convince me there is nothing you have learned and can pass on to someone else? That is entirely untrue.
It’s that easy.
Therefore, understanding why step three of the sales and marketing strategy is crucial. You have complete control.
People will flock to you if you’re helpful and willing to share what you know. People will become drawn to you once you shift your focus from yourself to the people you can assist. If you donate to others and earn their trust, they will begin purchasing from you. People prefer to do business with those they have confidence in.
Here are some concrete ways to get started:
o, Participate in internet interest-specific communities.
Find the queries you know the answers to. Keep it real.
o, Adapt more and more to your new position as a helpful resource for those who look to you for guidance.
You’ll gain self-assurance and new opportunities as a result of this. Your target market segment will come looking for you if you go about it in this manner.
Stop thinking and start doing.
Attend the Playing it Big Boot camp with me if you need more guidance in identifying your unique value and developing effective methods of delivering your message.
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You should also check out this piece on Attracting vs. Chasing Your Customers by Ann Sieg /ann-sieg-attract-your-target].
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