{"id":2813,"date":"2013-07-22T10:08:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2013-07-22T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T14:08:33","slug":"strategic-business-success-includes-going-places-they-aren%e2%80%99t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/strategic-business-success-includes-going-places-they-aren%e2%80%99t","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Business Success Includes Going Places They Aren\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/fish-pond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2814\" title=\"fish pond\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/fish-pond-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/fish-pond-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/fish-pond-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/fish-pond.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One of the problems with business in general, Information marketing, and some niche businesses, is that everybody\u2019s fishing in the same pond. \u00a0So, what\u2019s the best way to grow your business even with heavy competition?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say your business universe has 100,000 people in it, and everybody\u2019s going after that same 100,000 people, because everybody\u2019s going in the same direction.\u00a0 When you\u2019re competing in the pool of 100,000 everybody\u2019s already heard it and you have to work harder to get their attention.<\/p>\n<p>Challenge yourself to go the other way.\u00a0 Go where people aren\u2019t, look in new areas, in new niches and in different groups.\u00a0 Find people who aren\u2019t even familiar with whatever your area is and with things people have never heard of before.<\/p>\n<p>Go where the masses aren\u2019t, into very small groups, very specific, targeted niche areas.\u00a0 By doing this you might only talk to 25 people instead of 100 or 200 people, but what if you sold to 90% of them instead of only 20% of them?\u00a0 That becomes possible when you\u2019re \u201cThe One\u201d instead of many.<\/p>\n<p>But, how do you do that?\u00a0 You set yourself apart as the authority in your area, and focus on not being one of many, by striking out on your own path instead of following what everyone else is doing.\u00a0 When you get to a fork in the road, don\u2019t take the path that everyone else is taking, veer off in the other direction and make your own path.\u00a0 Go where other people aren\u2019t going.\u00a0 Think in a different way than the average person.<\/p>\n<p>When you do that you\u2019ll be amazed at the things that will happen, the people who are drawn to you and the people who will come into your life\u2026new clients and new opportunities.\u00a0 Again, because you\u2019re not one of many, instead you\u2019re \u201cThe One,\u201d the expert in your niche or area.<\/p>\n<p>So, think about what things you can do to be \u201cThe One\u201d.\u00a0 Think about the ways you can really look at going where others aren\u2019t going, look where they\u2019re not looking\u2026fish where they\u2019re not fishing.<\/p>\n<p>Fish in a different pond, a very select pond, where the exact fish you want are swimming.\u00a0 There may be fewer fish in that pond, but when you\u2019re the only one fishing in that pond they will all come flocking to you \u2013 your perfect, ideal client.\u00a0 That client who is willing to pay for your service or product&#8230;no matter what you charge! That\u2019s success!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems with business in general, Information marketing, and some niche businesses, is that everybody\u2019s fishing in the same pond. \u00a0So, what\u2019s the best way to grow your business even with heavy competition? Let\u2019s say your business universe has 100,000 people in it, and everybody\u2019s going after that same 100,000 people, because everybody\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic; text-align:right; font-family:Georgia;\" class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/strategic-business-success-includes-going-places-they-aren%e2%80%99t\"class=\"readmore red-clr underline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-strategy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2816,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}