Coaching Niches: 3 Considerations

When, as a coach, coaching niche marketing after you have made the effort to get trained and focus your coaching where you have the expertise to empower clients, the next step in finalizing your niche areas is marketing possibilities.

What are niche marketing considerations?
1. Market demand
Is your niche something on which people are willing to spend the time and money for a coach? Is there an identifiable benefit to coaching within your niche?
2. Opportunities to connect with target market
Given your niche area, how would you connect with potential clients? Are there professional development groups, membership organizations, or networking clubs with people in your target market? Does your niche area get discussed online?

3. Perception of target market

When you target market knows your niche, what do they think? Are they comfortable having a coach with that area of specialization? Do they feel it meets their needs?

When identifying your niche, a natural extension is how you will market to your ideal coaching client. As a new coach, natural possibilities include networking locally and networking online, giving presentations or workshops, developing relationships with the people in businesses that hire coaches, and connecting with people you know now. How does your coaching niche fit with your marketing plan, or how will you plan to market your niche?

Now that you have considered your client, your experience, and your marketing opportunities, what niche areas are you focusing on in your coaching practice?

Cathy Liska

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Most blog posts here are written or curated by Cathy Liska, Guide from the Side®, CDP, MCC.

Cathy is CEO/Founder of the Center for Coaching Certification, CCC. As Guide from the Side®, she is a sought-after trainer and coach with over 30 years of experience in business management and ownership. Cathy built her diverse team at CCC that includes trainers, customer service, and coaches. She was Co-Leader for ICF’s Ethics Community of Practice, on the Leadership Team for the review and updating of the Code of Ethics in 2024, and active in the Ethics Water Cooler. To ensure she stays current in related areas of expertise, Cathy has earned the following: ICF’s Master Certified Coach (MCC), Certified Coach Trainer, Certified Consumer Credit Counselor, Certificate of Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Grief Support Group Facilitator, Certified in the Drucker Self-Assessment Tool, Certified Apartment Manager, Certified Civil and Family Mediator, and Certified in DISC.

Cathy’s clients range from attorneys to corporate executives, government to nonprofit, entrepreneurs to children, under or unemployed to newly retired. She specializes in communication, management, conflict, and leadership. Her personal mission statement is “People.” Cathy is known for her passion to serve others so they achieve the results they want.

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