The Handcrafted Podcast: The Business of making things

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Don't Niche Too Soon: Let Your Customers Build Your Business

Don't Niche Too Soon: Let Your Customers Build Your Business6 Jul14 min

Free Trial In this episode, Paul challenges one of the most common pieces of business advice: "Find your niche." While niching down is important eventually, he argues that many makers do it far too early—before they've collected enough real-world data about what customers actually want. Drawing from his own experience building Philadelphia Table Company, Paul explains how saying "yes" to a wide variety of projects in the early years allowed the business to discover its true specialty naturall...