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I want to refocus my remodeling construction company and lead a niche market.

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My friend joined up as a rating the Royal Navy and has left after five years (ish), a fully qualified computer technician, and is now making a mint basically doing exactly the same thing he was doing in the Navy.

I want to join up as an officer in the Army, preferably an infantry or other front-line regiment. Do soldiers in these roles learn a trade or is that just for the Engineering/ Logisitcs corps etc? Is the only skill that paras or guards etc learn, ‘how to fight’?

Also how does this differ between officers and soldiers? You don’t see many ex-Captains earning a living as a plumber…what do they do when they leave?

Finally, if you’re an officer, do you have the right to carry on using your title after you’re discharged? We occassionally get our neighbours post, addressed to ‘Major MacWillis’ even though he retired ten years ago?

Thanks!

You won’t learn a trade, but you will gain valuble experience in management as an officer, no matter what branch you join. Also, the higher you go, the more contacts you make in industry.

Every big company is on Facebook and Twitter (etc). What are some ways that a small business owner use the power of these social networks to help get their business off of the ground and growing (without paying "consulting firms" a fortune to manage a free Facebook page)?

Coley, you’re instincts are correct that you can take advantage of social networking sites to build your business without hiring a consultant. The beauty of these tools is that they are free (at least for now) and work best when used by real people who are using them to connect with other like-minded real people. Here are a few ideas to get you started.

Facebook
Start a fan page. This article by Katie Hellmuth Martin will walk you through how it’s done:

http://thatitgirl.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-make-fan-page-in-facebook.html

Spread the word about your Facebook page. Talk about your new page at every opportunity. Include it as part of your email signature. Link to it on your company’s website. Send out an online newsletter to your customer list announcing the new page, perhaps offering a coupon or some other promotion to those who visit and do something like leave a comment on your Facebook wall. Tell all your personal friends on Facebook about your business’s new page and invite them to become fans.

Encourage people to share your content. Consider posting things your fans might want to share on their walls; each time that happens, it will send more visitors back to your page. I posted a slideshow on the world’s ugliest buildings from Travel + Leisure’s page on my Facebook wall because it was amusing. That’s just the kind of thing that gets people talking and going to check out the rest of Travel + Leisure’s page.

Make it useful or fun to visit your page. If you sell gourmet foods, offer recipes on the page. If you sell athletic gear, post advice about fitness and nutrition. Better yet, create a program for people wanting to monitor their diet or exercise routine; they’ll need to return to the page every time they update it. If you’re an interior designer, publish before and after shots of rooms you’ve furnished. Make it interactive by asking people to vote on ideas to complete a room. You get the idea.

Twitter
At first, using Twitter feels a lot like talking into a empty room. But if you use Twitter properly, you will soon be having conversations with customers, potential customers, the media and all kinds of people that can be helpful to your business. This guide for Twitter – http://business.twitter.com/twitter101 – written for the company by Twitter expert Sarah Milstein (co-author of The Twitter Book), gives way smarter advice than I could ever give you. Pay particular attention to the case studies and the best practices.

One thing about social media — people using it love to give and read advice about ways to do it better. Start reading blogs like Mashable.com and Ducttapemarketing.com, and follow industry leaders like Chris Brogan (www.chrisbrogan.com).

There seem to be lots of people who will charge for this knowledge, but there have to be some good free sources out there for identifying profitable niche markets for blogs/websites/forums. What are the best ones? What’s a good place to start?

Here is my guide and good luck. Email me with any questions!

Let’s think about how to find Internet niche market Ideas together.
If idea will work, everybody who on this page now will benefit from it.
INFORMATION – this is the real business.
Remember book of Bill Gates: " Business with speed of idea"

Find out google blog related to Niche Market

http://blogsearch.google.co.in/?hl=en&tab=wb

I want to create an e-book or software product that people will want to buy so I’m looking for idea’s and niche’s that might be profitable. Can anyone supply me with an idea or how to find a good idea,etc.

Hi Gary

First, I like Adam’s response and would encourage you to check out more of what he was talking about.

Second, there are so many niche markets out there that the question really isn’t how do you find a "niche market" but rather how does it find you. What are your interests? Your likes? Your dislikes? Decide upon that and then "niche down".

"Niching down" means that if you decide that APPLES will be your niche quickly realize that that term is far to generic and "niche down" to something like "Washington State red delicious apples". Now you know exactly who your target market is and it becomes much easier to reach that exact audience. The more you "niche down" the truer this is.

Here is an audio file I own and normally charge others for that talks about this topic even more.
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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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