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By: John Coxon

John Coxon — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:24:01 +0000

My experiences are similar. Identifying your niche market and your ideal client is difficult and tends to evolve with experience – which means you could go broke first! On the other hand having a niche doesn’t guarantee you business – you still need to find a way to market your service offering. Again this tends to evolve with experience. Surprisingly very few marketing consultants appear able, or willing, to help with B2B marketing, they appear to only understand B2C marketing. To me marketing is about two things, making sure your message goes where your ideal client is and helping them feel comfortable with you. One of my largest enquiries came from an article I submitted to a trade magazine. The biggest advantage of working to a niche, and having an ideal client, is that they become your best salespeople and often refer you to other potential clients.

By: Alex Lim

Alex Lim — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:02:03 +0000

Great thoughts! Glen

Its part of life’s game to be involve with clients who’s completely out or beyond of your “ideals”. I think what makes freelancers unique is their ability to cope and adjust with different people they are doing business with. Although, there are times things won’t go well and satisfying. You need to deal with it, practically.

Defining an ideal client is good thought although you may not always get this persona, at least you have the standard of what you are really looking for. I guess that is a good step to take to make things organized and directed.

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:22:44 +0000

Cindy, there are attorneys by the truckload on Twitter.

By: Karen Swim

Karen Swim — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:01:22 +0000

Glen, your post had me doing the end zone happy dance. Too often these days, new freelancers, and solo professionals are seduced by new media. They hear chants of where they should be and are never advised to ask “where are your clients?” I work with small and large clients and for some their ideal client is offline. It is critical to take time to define your ideal client and do the work of finding out where you can best reach them, and more importantly where to reach them when they are making buying decisions.

By: Debbra

Debbra — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:26:21 +0000

It’s hard when you’re starting out to be discriminating, but if you take every potential client who comes along, you will find yourself unhappy and poorly compensated.

Most good coaches will advise you to define your perfect client. Once you know what you want, you are sending those vibrations out to the universe and you will find yourself attracting perfect clients. Law of Attraction works every time.