{"id":24360,"date":"2022-08-25T10:19:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T15:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/?p=24360"},"modified":"2022-08-25T10:19:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T15:19:52","slug":"niches-are-riches-narrowing-your-scope-and-becoming-an-expert-in-your-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/niches-are-riches-narrowing-your-scope-and-becoming-an-expert-in-your-field\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Niches are Riches\u2019: Narrowing Your Scope and Becoming an Expert in Your Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xxxmsonormal\">In a recent blog, Managing Director of Entrepreneurial Services Division II and Director of the Illinois Small Business Development Center, Maura Mitchell highlights the importance of understanding your target audience and customer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xxxmsonormal\">One of the first things I ask my clients when supporting them through their business launch is, \u201cWho is your target audience or consumer?\u201d As a business owner, you must think about who it is your product or service is designed for. Many times, the standard answer is \u201cwell, everyone.\u201d While in an ideal world, you would want everyone to purchase your product or service, that is not always the best way for you to market your business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xxxmsonormal\">Read the full blog <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@MauraMitchell\/niches-are-riches-narrowing-your-scope-and-becoming-an-expert-in-your-field-7f5bf25419e8\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent blog, Managing Director of Entrepreneurial Services Division II and Director of the Illinois Small Business Development Center, Maura Mitchell highlights the importance of understanding your target audience&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24361,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24360\/revisions\/24361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}