SHOULD YOU NICHE IN YOUR BUSINESS & How To Call In Your Dream Clients - Business Coach Val Nichols

26 Oct 2020 · 2 min

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In this motivational coaching monologue, Val Nichols warns entrepreneurs about "shiny object syndrome"—the tendency to chase every new idea and try to be everything to everyone. She contrasts a generalist approach (e.g., a physician who does a little of everything) with a specialist approach (e.g., a surgeon who focuses on a single niche) to illustrate that niche experts command higher income, attract ideal clients, and enjoy greater freedom. Nichols proposes a two‑step strategy: first cast a wide net to discover who you truly want to serve, then narrow down to a specific niche that aligns with your soul and business goals. By focusing on a well‑defined audience, entrepreneurs can experience more happiness, joy, freedom, and cash flow.

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What's up entrepreneurs and business leaders? Here's the deal. It can be so easy to get caught up in the next big thing, to have what I like to call the shiny object syndrome, where you can feel pulled to go this direction or that direction. Then all of a sudden something exciting comes up and then you want to like go all in on that. And here's the thing I want to ask you is, do you want to go broad Or do you want to go deep? Because think about it, who do you think makes more money? The general physician who just kind of does a little bit of everything, or the specific niche-down surgeon who only works on brains, or maybe plastic surgery, or whatever it is? But who do you think it is that makes more money, that commands a better audience, that commands their ideal clients into their business? The general doctor who does a little bit of everything, or the specific surgeon who's very specific in the niche that they serve. And here's the thing, especially as entrepreneurs, it can be so easy to get caught up and distracted by all the things. But if you go broad and you're always bouncing from one idea to the other and doing all the things, it's so easy to do, right? Am I right? It's so easy to get caught up in the next thing or bounce from here to there and try and be everything to everyone. But here's the deal. First, you want to go broad, and then you want to go narrow. You want to go broad and find out exactly who it is that you want to work with, and then narrow down on your niche so that you're calling to you the exact clients, the exact soul-aligned clients, the exact people that you want to work for. So don't go broad. Don't try and be everything to everyone when you can be everything to those specific people that you truly desire, which will create more happiness, more joy, more freedom, and more cash in your business. Mwah!