This is niche critical [open now]

As much as you might resist this, the success of your health business rides on your ability to nail your niche.

If reading that makes you tense up, shut down, and want to run for the hills, I get it.

I resisted niching too, but what you resist persists!

When you resist niching…

Your consultations don’t lead to enrollments
You get more no-shows that show-ups
Your clients are frustrating and don’t follow through
You don’t get engagement on social media posts
Your challenges, courses, and group programs flop

I floundered like this at first in my own health consulting business. The doubt crept in and I started to question if I was going to make it as a functional health practitioner.

That was until I figured out who my ideal client was, which helped me:

Create a core marketing message that spoke directly to my niche
Design 1:1 and group programs people wanted
Easily enroll clients during consultations
Make marketing efforts more effective

And that’s when my business really started to take off!

What most functional health practitioners don’t realize is that nailing a niche is critical to developing every other aspect of your business including your website, packages, programs, social media content, and so much more!

Similar to how test results guide health improvement recommendations, your niche does the same thing for all components of your business.

As a heart-centered healer, it’s hard to think about narrowing into a niche because we want to help everyone. But the truth is, by trying to help everyone, you actually end up helping no one. When you try to help everyone, you end up exhausting your energy and time for people who are misaligned, disabling your ability to show up 100% for the people who are aligned.

As a mentor once told me, “how you do one thing is how you do everything.”

Catering to everyone else’s needs is also a common trait that contributes to poor health. I’m sure you’ve seen this in your clients or yourself. I’ve been guilty of it, and my clients have too.

So just as we would encourage our clients to set healthy boundaries around helping others to protect their health, we need to do the same for our business by niching.

Your experiences in life and education have uniquely designed you to help a specific type of person, but typical training sessions on niching don’t teach you how to identify or harness this.

I really struggled with traditional niching practices. I had a hard time fitting my niche into a specific box related to their gender, age, and health condition; I wanted to work with all ages, genders, and health issues.

That’s when I created a non-traditional approach to niching that felt more authentic, aligned, and produced the business results I was looking for.

When I take other functional health practitioners through this non-traditional approach to niching, they bust through their blocks and have light bulb moments!