HOW TO FIND YOUR CREATIVE NICHE???
When it comes to achieving success in any creative pursuit, it’s important to understand your skill set, what you do well, and where you can add value. This process can be called finding a niche or defining your specialism, and it’s a crucial step in terms of working out your goals and progressing towards them. The phrase ‘find your niche’ has, however, become overused and cliched in regard to creativity, business and general skills. While it’s important to have a clear idea of what your expertise is and how you can maximize its potential both professionally and personally, there is a danger of ‘specialism’ becoming ‘restriction’. So how can we strike the balance between being a jack-of-all-trades and limiting opportunities by specialising to the extreme? Here are some tips to help you think differently about your skills, and focus on developing them in the right way to find your creative niche. Work out what a niche means to you How you define a specialism can vary depen...