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I am a Business Coach and always want to make sure I have my pulse on what people are needing so that I provide the best service. Is getting more clients, making more money, or something else the hardest thing you have to deal with? How important is growing your business to you? I think by knowing this Business Coaches can provide a greater service to you and help support you in your goals of acheiving success.

Growth is vital to any business. Who can depend on the same customers and make a living? New clients help create cashflow and make you learn more about what you do.
My challenge is time management and learning networking for referrals. Self promotion isn’t easy if you don’t have the skills yet.
For Biz Coaching…why don’t you create a newsletter that can be shared with tips or a blog, be a resource & establish yourself as an professional.
Good luck.

I am a metal artist, creating bowls, sconces, lighting, etc. I’d like to develop my line more and find manufacturers for my designs where I can focus more on the designing instead of the fabrication. I’m also looking for retailers to sell my work to. I’m scouring the internet, sending images of my work, with some success, but I’d appreciate any advice on finding buyers, and how to grow my business to find licensee/manufacturers and how that process works.

In many businesses, a good way to grow a venture is to have a case study / proof of concept which can be pitched to potential business partners, investors, clients, or (in the case of larger businesses) internal decision makers — whoever holds the resources that you need to grow your small venture.

From the description you provided, it sounds like your work has an element of fashion or taste. So, you may want to consider (if you haven’t already) "packaging" your pieces as a collection and defining the characteristics of your "target client" who would install your collection in his/her home or business.

If you’ve sold your pieces in the past, thinking about your client base may help you define these traits. Alternatively, you may also consider a nominal investment in market research which you can conduct yourself with tools from SurveyMonkey.com or Zoomerang.com. (A simple way to recruit respondents is to send your survey to friends and family and ask them to forward the link to your survey to 2-3 people and in turn ask those respondents to do the same — a "snowballing" technique.)

You may also want to try defining the potential market size of buyers for your pieces and the economic opportunity that represents over the next 1,2 or 5 years — build the case that will interest buyers and manufacturers in working with you now and in the long run. Then, ask for a pilot investment of time/resources to work with you for the next 1, 3, or 6 months — make it easier for manufacturers and retailers to say yes by helping mitigate the risk they see of you being “unknown” and ask them to help you define the terms of a pilot. (Remember, this is a negotiation, so try to define the terms that will be ensure your success when it comes time to measure the results.)

When the pilot proves successful, you can ask for a larger investment and make the case for expanding your line of designs (if your partners do not demand it first).

To find manufacturers and retailers, you might consider participating in a tradeshow. Often, participating as an exhibitor can be prohibitively expensive, especially for a start-up business. But, if you register as an attendee (sometimes for free), you can walk the tradeshow floor and approach / pitch the people that you meet in the booths. The ultimate goal is to develop a list of warm leads for follow-up meetings after the show is over — don’t expect to close a deal there and then. Consider a tradeshow the icebreaker. Your "first date" comes later when you follow up to continue the conversation you started.

I know this does not answer exactly *where* to find manufacturers and retailers — you can probably do much of that by searching online — but hopefully this gives you some strategies that you can use when you find those leads. Good luck!

Say you are targeting a Niche Market, how would you exploit it?

Hope that makes sense.
Once you’ve found the Niche Market, is there a way of maximising profit.

Would you charge more because very little people supply the product you sell for example.

Yep, makes perfect sense.

Its really, really simple too.

A niche market is something there isn;t necessarily a product to fit into. For example, a group of fishermen who would like some special instant-fish cooking box. Exploiting this niche is a simple matter of providing that magical fish cooking box.
To exploit a niche market is simply to provide a specialist product, usually one that will only sell in that little market.

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Thank you

hi jack.
Thank you for posting such a nice question.
This is also one of my favorite question.

And I found the answer from your posting.
Thank you so much

Please don’t suggest fake websites.

If you know PHP well enough to take on a project (i.e. you know the syntax, security issues, performance issues, etc…) your best bet to obtain any work is to start off by putting together a sample site that shows what you can do and be prepared to show the code to an employer (beside being correct, it should be clean and well documented). If you know HTML/CSS and some javascript as well, you will look even better to your potential customers/employers, and knowledge of at least basic HTML is necessary to put together a sample site. Once you have your sample site together, you can try to pick up some freelance work, get a job with a company that does its web development in house, or apply at a web development firm. For freelance work, visit getafreelancer.com, odesk.com, or rentacoder.com. If you want a full-time position at a company, look on monster.com, careerbuilder.com, and craigslist; or simply google "PHP job". Once you get your sample site together, send me an email and I will review it for you before you start showing it to employers. If you have any other questions, feel free to send me a message.