The Niche Beat

Here are some of our articles and blog posts related to back-stories and inspiration when searching for the right niche.

Uncovering Creative Niches: 3 Great Examples

When you are the first and must figure things out….

Absolutely fascinating interview with Haben Girma, a disability rights attorney, author, and the first woman to graduate from Harvard Law School despite being born deaf and blind. Insightful takeaways during the 45-minute talk for any student or anyone else attempting to navigate a challenging path.
Book TV (C-Span.org): https://www.c-span.org/video/?463715-1/haben&start=75

How a small town saved itself from economic ruin after big business left
In the 1980s, Colorado townspeople in a small town devised a unique idea to improve their devastated economy. Highlights in the 27-minute PBS segment include an illustration of what happens to a town when the industry leaves. But the focus is why and how the town developed an idea that worked.

Rmbs.org/Colorado experience: http://www.rmpbs.org/coloradoexperience/culture/meeker-classic

A cake like no other
If you think there couldn’t possibly be a new idea for a baked cake, the Flour Shop bakery found it and landed in Forbes Magazine. Part of the under 30 series by Alexandra Sternlicht.

Forbes.com
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2019/08/21/how-the-flour-shop-is-turning-150-exploding-birthday-cakes-into-a-lifestyle/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=forbes&utm_campaign=forbes&sh=73e69b05518f#26970634518f%20find

Book Revision Update 2016 for Finding Your Niche

New content will include…

Nifty work-life balance tips article
reprinted from the San Francisco Chronicle
Top 10 web articles and go-to resources
Popular posts from the Niche Creativity blog via links.

And with the arrival of new software last week, revisions
on existing content will be completed
within two weeks.

Book Excerpt

Free Finding Your Niche chapter samples
Save time, effort, and expense with this resource guide of tips on how to avoid the pitfalls of choosing an idea

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Table of contents & two sample chapters.
Click on the link to view or download, 628 KB PDF.

Free Class Quiz

: Class Notes

Test Your Critical Thinking & Research Skills
Read the previous blog post for Nathaniel Hawthorne. What other factor might explain his lack of financial success during his lifetime?

What do River Dance, Del’s Lemonade in Rhode Island, and the franchise Mongolian Barbecue have in common? Beside’s being well known in their respective fields.

True or False?: If you are a working partner in a small business and the company is sold, your social networking account and contacts could become the sole property of the new owner.

Answers
Although there is a lot of circumstances to suggest that Hawthrone’s family history played a role in determining his lack of success, Hawthorne didn’t want to or didn’t have the skills to study the marketplace and produce material that the public wanted to read at that time. Also, his values weren’t in sync with, for example, those who were interested in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. And ironically, his friend, Herman Melville, also wrote manuscripts that the public was not interested in reading.

What do River Dance, Del’s Lemonade in Rhode Island, and the franchise Mongolian Barbecue have in common? Beside’s being well known in their respective fields. The businesses were all inspired by historic practices. For instance, Riverdance is a modern-day version of ancient Celtic dancing. Del’s lemonade got its start in Italy in the 1840s. And Mongolian barbecue is based on ancient cooking methods.

True or False?: If you are a working partner in a small business and the company is sold, your social networking account and contacts could become the sole property of the new owner.

True. A speaker author and trainer in the financial education field found herself barred from her LinkedIn account when the company she worked with was sold.
The case is now in court.

References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Flatley
http://fdlfeatures.com/DINING/Dels/dels.htm
http://www.dwsgrill.com/mongolianbbqhistory.html
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-paed-2_11-cv-04303/pdf/USCOURTS-paed-2_11-cv-04303-0.pdf

Production Drama

Book Production
After many, many, many, delays, and replacement of personnel, the interior design for Finding your Niche was completed yesterday along with manuscript proofing, which lasted into the wee hours.

The ebook will be available through several online retailers once uploading procedures are completed. This entire process will take several more weeks. Overall, I don’t believe it took as long to build Rome.

Comment
02/01/2010
Hey Dee, glad to see your sense of humor has survived! Congratulations on the progress. I look forward to seeing more of the book. Lory Poulson

Spark of Inspiration

Finding Clues

Georgette Heyer had her first novel published at 19 years of age in 1921. She’s considered a pioneer in historical and Regency Romance.

And more than eight decades later, Salman Khan started an Internet tutoring service. The Kahn Academy was available free of charge to users in 2006.

Test your fact-gathering skills by answering the following question:
Heyer and Khan both found their niches in the same way. Can you figure out what that way was?

Answer

The information on Heyer is not as easy to find, depending upon which websites you go to, as is the information on how the Khan Academy got its start.

Heyer made up a bedtime story one night to read to her little brother, and that’s how she discovered her talent for writing.

Khan and Hager were both inspired to pursue their particular talents because they were problem-solving or tending to children and their needs.

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