Nailing Your Niche

Nailing Your Niche

April 7, 2026 · 24 min · Season 4 · Episode 315

About this episode

Colin Boyd discusses the importance of niching down in business and introduces the Niche Making Model to help coaches and experts clarify their target audience.

I was terrified to niche down. Genuinely terrified. I thought if I narrowed my focus, I'd miss out on helping so many people. So I stayed broad. "I help people with leadership and career advancement and life coaching and business coaching and high performance and..." You know what happened? Nothing. Crickets. Then I niched down on teaching coaches how to sell from stage. One specific thing. One specific person. One specific problem. My business tripled. In this episode of The Expert Edge, I break down the Niche Making Model - the exact framework I teach inside our Sell From Stage Elite program to help coaches, course creators, and experts finally get clear on who they serve and what they do. I walk through the four biggest misbeliefs keeping you stuck in "I help everyone" land, why generic messaging attracts zero interest, and how to squeeze your niche tight without accidentally strangling your business. What you'll learn: → The Niche Making Model: Person, Problem, Promise, Mechanism (the four parts of a strong niche) → Misbelief 1: "If I narrow my niche, I'll miss out on potential clients" (this is backwards - here's why) → Misbelief 2: "I can solve so many problems, I don't…

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