How To Be Relevant In Different Markets

May 05

It’s really easy to box ourselves into a corner. We start thinking “Oh, my blog is about this topic _____ [fill in the blank] so I have to find sites that are about that topic to post to”.

Not exactly.

Today we’re going to look at how we can be relevant in different markets, and yet tie it up in nice big bow to bring people back to our site. Of course your site won’t be relevant to EVERY other site, but you can spread it out more than you probably think.

Let’s look at some possible posting options we might have in different niches. Let’s say there’s blogs on the following topics:

Organizing
Life ~ in general
Spiritual life
simple living/mom blog type thing

Now let’s look at some of our blog topics and see how we might be relevant to those niches.

Let’s first look at my blog ~ internet marketing niche:

Organizing: I could write a post on how to organize your day, your business, your time and then link  back to my squeeze page on how to build your blog in 2 hours a day or less.

Life: I could write a post about getting motivated,  staying motivated, fitting business into life, getting your family on board, dealing with friends who want to hang out in the middle of the day etc. Then link to the blog and also to a relevant category of posts on my blog.

Spiritual life: (I’m thinking about a site like tiny buddha here) I can talk about the changes I’ve been through personally to make this business work, I could write about the law of attraction, self esteem, etc. I would link back to the blog and again to one of the relevant categories on my site (if I can have 2 links).

Simple living/mom blog: How to create a balance between business and work, how to deal with distractions during your work day, how to get your family on board with working from home, how to get the kids on board with helping with housework. I would probably link to the 2 hour blog report squeeze page for that as well.

So you see, not one of these is an internet marketing blog, but I could easily write relevant posts for the blog owner and get people to come back to my site. When you do this you open yourself up to a whole new stream of readers. You tap into people who may or may not have ever heard of you or your blog ~ you also open yourself up to THEIR network. It can be exponentially beneficial to provide content to sites that are outside of your direct niche.

Let’s look at another niche ~ how about Ride on toys ~ these tighter niches can seem a little tougher.

Ride on toys

Organizing: how to organize toys, steps for keeping toys out from under foot, toy organizing system

Life: the joys of playing outside, spending quality time with your kids, whole family activities

Spiritual Life: You can talk about how simple gifts can mean more than having all the toys/best toys, how to teach our kids about gratitude, teaching kids to give  (maybe giving to charity etc).

Simple living/mom blog: choosing an age appropriate ride on for your kids, the developmental benefits of ride on toys ~ or different kinds of toys, how to get kids to pick up their toys

So you can see someone even with a tight niche like ride on toys can still find ways to enter a variety of different niches for high profile content syndication.

Let’s do one more just for fun. Let’s take a look at Todd’s niche/lifestyle ~ he’s doing Primal Lifestyle. Let’s see if we can find a way for him to fit these categories as well.

Primal Living

Organizing: He could talk about how to organize a menu, planning a menu, how to manage different eating styles within a family, how to organize your budget when eating primal.

Life: he could talk about health benefits, exercise that goes with this lifestyle, he could talk about the mental shift it takes to live this lifestyle, he could give tips to getting started

Spiritual life: He could talk about mindset, living more naturally, will power, self esteem, self love, discipline

Simple living/mom ~ he could give some easy paleo/primal recipes, how to get kids to eat primal, benefits of starting primal lifestyle early in life, tips for shopping for primal eating, budgeting ideas for primal lifestyle.

There are tons of things!

You can see that you don’t have to box yourself in to looking for sites that are exactly a match for your niche. You just have to give it a twist, and make your site and what you have to say more relevant to a wider range of people.

I’d love to brainstorm this out with you ~ if you’re wondering how you can do this for your niche ~ let’s brainstorm! You can do it in the comments section, at the facebook fanpage or if you want some one on one private time together I’ve got some new brainstorming options available!

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9 comments

  1. Jackie /

    Russell,

    The issue may be that they have recently changed/updated the google kw tool. You’ll want to use the “word or phrase” box now.

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  2. Hi Jackie
    This query is not really relevant to this post – didn’t know where else to put it!
    I’ve been doing some K/W research. In Google K/W Tool, in the left box it it says ….
    How would you like to generate keyword ideas?
    ( ) Descriptive words or phrases
    (e.g. green tea)
    I understood it was also supposed to say …
    ( ) Website content
    (e..g. http://www.example …..
    Am I correct? I can’t get the latter up and that’s what I want.
    Can you help me on this?
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  3. What a great post! It all seems so easy once you see some examples. Really opened my eyes, thanks.
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  4. Dennis Edell from Direct Sales Marketing /

    Excellent examples Jackie, and true. Just about any blog can fit themselves into those 4. After that it really gets fun, when people are confident enough to try and tackle those “way outside.”

    Excellent starting point. :)
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  5. Wow! Thanks Jackie! It is an absolute honor to be used as an example!!

    I have an open mind… but… I think it just exploded with a zillion possibilities! Talk about putting a unique twist on it all. ;)

    I am sending this to the printer immediately, lol.

    P.S. I am updating my name and e-mail to what I now use for this niche.
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  6. Thanks for this – when you gave the specific examples, it got my mind racing. Great way to think of relevancy in different terms.

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  7. Fabulous info as always! Such a simple concept, but every now and then I need a little push to help be see the bigger picture, especially when I’m caught up in “task mode.” Thank you Jackie. :-)
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  8. Jackie /

    Awesome Kelly~ That was my hope was to get people thinking with a twist. ;) (to avoid the cliche lol)

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  9. I hate to use a cliche, but these are great ways of thinking ‘outside the box’. Just reading the post gave me a couple of good ideas. Thanks!

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