The music industry today looks to be full of artists that seem to come from nowhere. All of a sudden they have a viral hit, whether it's from a video, or a trending tweet.
The DIY musician needs to realise that this kind of thing doesn't happen purely because they have have written an amazing tune. There are thousand of undiscovered brilliant tracks out there. More often than not, it has become succesful because of their canny use of Social Media. And probably even more so because they understand what their niche is.
So what is a Niche?
Cyber PR's Jon Ostrow puts it like this,
a niche is simply a specific or ‘specialized’ market. In other words, it is not ‘the whole world’ or ‘rock fans’. A niche is a very detailed, smaller sub-section of a bigger market, but most importantly those who are characterized within the niche are far more likely to be loyalists than fans of a more generalized market. Not to get too ‘marketing-jargen’ on you all, but typically speaking, the more specific a niche, the more dedicated those within it will be, and visa versa, the more broad a market becomes, the less dedicated the fans will be.
So clearly, all music genres fall into niches, the trick is, How do you conquer that niche to get your message/brand across? Well, you need to define and locate the fans of your niche, Jon suggests collating the following information to help you determine that.
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- Demographic (age, gender location)
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- Similar / influential artists (remember to start locally, then branch out to the regional, national and global scale)
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- What are the influential promotional outlets?
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- Where do the fans exist online?
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- What blogs do they read?
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- How do they find out about new music?
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- Are they into fashion? If so, what brands?
Check out the Jons Full article for cool tips on how to understand and conquer your niche, you can read his full post here.
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