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Can my niche abroad be my native English?

by j77
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Like many of us, 2023 was a really rough calendar year for my content writing / copywriting business that I've been doing full-time and with success since 2016. To the point where I'm not even getting inquiries on my site as I used to on a weekly basis. Now months will go by without an inquiry.

Some are blaming the AI / ChatGPT reality, which I'm also inclined to blame right now but I'm trying to be more proactive and changing this.

I've started upping my pitching and being more active on LinkedIn, but I'm also wondering about my niche.

While the majority of my clients have been in the B2B space, it's always been in a wide range of industries, from traditional industrial global brands to global tech brands to small-time SaaS startups to the HR industry and so much more. I've never drilled down to a certain specific topic/niche and it's never hurt me. I do have some B2C clients too.

My differentiator and I feel that my niche is my location and native English, in addition to my rich background with global brands. I'm abroad in a non-English speaking market, with a lot of global brands here. I've worked both internally and as a freelancer for global B2B and B2C brands also so I never felt a need to niche as far as topic.

Is this niche enough? Or should I rethink this? Because right now it's just not working even though from 2016-22 it was working perfectly fine
#abroad #copywriting #english #native #niche
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  • Profile picture of the author Monetize
    Originally Posted by j77 View Post

    Like many of us, 2023 was a really rough calendar year for my content writing / copywriting business that I've been doing full-time and with success since 2016. To the point where I'm not even getting inquiries on my site as I used to on a weekly basis. Now months will go by without an inquiry.

    Some are blaming the AI / ChatGPT reality, which I'm also inclined to blame right now but I'm trying to be more proactive and changing this.

    I've started upping my pitching and being more active on LinkedIn, but I'm also wondering about my niche.

    While the majority of my clients have been in the B2B space, it's always been in a wide range of industries, from traditional industrial global brands to global tech brands to small-time SaaS startups to the HR industry and so much more. I've never drilled down to a certain specific topic/niche and it's never hurt me. I do have some B2C clients too.

    My differentiator and I feel that my niche is my location and native English, in addition to my rich background with global brands. I'm abroad in a non-English speaking market, with a lot of global brands here. I've worked both internally and as a freelancer for global B2B and B2C brands also so I never felt a need to niche as far as topic.

    Is this niche enough? Or should I rethink this? Because right now it's just not working even though from 2016-22 it was working perfectly fine

    Your niche can be whatever you want it to be, as long as
    it is profitable, but the days of having one income source
    are over.

    You should probably diversify and develop at least three
    separate income streams, you definitely need something
    passive so that you aren't relying on clients and working
    yourself to death.

    As to AI and ChatGPT, take my advice and make that
    work for you.

    It helps me develop content in a few minutes that would
    have taken me weeks to create, and I have developed
    multiple products with ease.

    ChatGPT can answer your questions, help you with new
    ideas, write all sorts of content, and the possibilities are
    endless, only limited by the user.

    Keep at it, keep going, and don't get discouraged.
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    • Profile picture of the author j77
      Originally Posted by Monetize View Post

      Your niche can be whatever you want it to be, as long as
      it is profitable, but the days of having one income source
      are over.

      You should probably diversify and develop at least three
      separate income streams, you definitely need something
      passive so that you aren't relying on clients and working
      yourself to death.

      As to AI and ChatGPT, take my advice and make that
      work for you.

      It helps me develop content in a few minutes that would
      have taken me weeks to create, and I have developed
      multiple products with ease.

      ChatGPT can answer your questions, help you with new
      ideas, write all sorts of content, and the possibilities are
      endless, only limited by the user.

      Keep at it, keep going, and don't get discouraged.


      Thanks for that. When you say diversify to 3 separate income streams, do you mean in the writing world? Some offset of that? Or completely different environments?

      Yes, I'm not fighting ChatGPT/AI and am looking for ways to make it work for me. I have used it to help with things like headers and sub-headers in stories, meta descriptions, etc. so I'm open to leveraging it.
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      • Profile picture of the author Monetize
        Originally Posted by j77 View Post

        Thanks for that. When you say diversify to 3 separate income streams, do you mean in the writing world? Some offset of that? Or completely different environments?

        Yes, I'm not fighting ChatGPT/AI and am looking for ways to make it work for me. I have used it to help with things like headers and sub-headers in stories, meta descriptions, etc. so I'm open to leveraging it.

        I'm so glad that I could help.

        You could definitely come up with different income streams
        with writing/content development, but it can be whatever
        works for you.

        Some examples are:

        Continuing/expanding what you are already doing

        Publishing

        Developing and selling PLR or other done-for-you content

        Subscription memberships delivering various content


        As I stated in my previous post, this very question could be
        asked of ChatGPT, and it will list ways to diversify.

        You tell it something like: I do such and such, what can
        I do to create additional income.

        Not only that, it will give you instructions on exactly how to
        go about doing things.

        I started a new thing, it is something I have been wanting
        to do for years, but I never had the time or a clear vision
        on how to do it, and there are literally ten closely related
        income streams that are all passive, once I do the initial
        work of setting them up.

        Anyway, the point of having other sources is for protection
        so that you aren't relying on one thing, in case something
        happens, because you never know.
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  • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
    Your dream niche is always the slot you perfectly fit.

    An' I should know -- bcs I quotin' a BF here I latah dumped.

    It is troo NOW is kinda flooid in ways we nevah kinda touched on before -- but that is the miracyool of now.

    An' it will'n always be so.

    Stoopidest evah thing is, despite NOW's perpetyool flooidity, we all eternally confined to the immediate moment.

    I nevah gone back or forward in time -- whaddabout YOU?

    I write an' you read in the same eternal now far'n as anythin' transformative or of zero significance goes.

    Such is the blessing/curse of all mortal stuffs -- incloodin' the swankily glitsy inhabitants of Plannit Cool Frickin' Techstuffs.

    Alla whom now prolly figurin' 2 things:

    1) How do we deal with downhomesy tech kickback in a world increasingly dominated by rullijwaahs zealots?

    2) If'n we so NOO NOO NOO NOO NOO NOO NOO Venturesboldsy, what happens when 3yos speakin' our language bcs cultural-evolooshwaahn-asya-crap?

    Between these immodest nooses will the success or failyah of any techsy schwangocraft be slung.

    So why naht say that to the fkrs?

    Tech platform popularity is bombin' rn 'longside perpetyool desiah for smartah slooshins to stuff.

    My view?

    SAAS worked as an acronym back in the day, but it is too high-falutin' an' tech-centric for tamara.

    A trickle down smart pissin' on the actschwl desiahs of'n yr avridge Jodies.

    They should call it sumthin' else ... sumthin' more immediately desirabyool an' practically/evidently FRICKIN' USEFUL from a user POV.

    You native Hingerlish with XP here ... so why dontchya reniche the whole niche?

    If'n we stuck with S.A.A.S. for all eternity, how'n the tech dial movin', zackly?
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    Lightin' fuses is for blowin' stuff togethah.

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