How to Grow Your Audience in a Niche

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When you start a niche at the beginning, it's actually very scrappy to start growing your audience. To be an anneas, you have to have expertise in the niche to get gain trust. We didn't even have money to like print t-shirts so we printed like socks,. And I was just telling people about barbed at whatever events that I could just go to. It actually worked because people started paying attention.

Should you be concerned if your content doesn’t appeal to everyone?

According to BarBend’s Head of Brand, David Tao, you should embrace it because it’s actually one of your greatest strengths as a marketer. David and Daniel discuss the ways in which niche content gives you a competitive advantage and how to use it to gain a broader audience.

David also unveils his three biggest tips for scaling a company organically, including optimizing SEO strategy, using good design principles, and being consistent in your work, and explains the one marketing hill he would die on.

0:00 Intro/Background

4:07 Scaling Niche Companies

11:39 Scaling Organically

21:00 Growth Levers for Scaling BarBend

29:14 A Hill to Die On

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