{"product_id":"2940015506082","title":"How to Position Yourself as an Expert in any Niche and Conquer it: Do What You Do Best and be the Best","description":"Becoming an Expert – What Does It Actually Mean?\u003cbr\u003eWikipedia, the world’s largest free online dictionary, has this to say about who an expert is…\u003cbr\u003e“An expert is someone that is widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by their peers or the public in a specific well-distinguished domain.”\u003cbr\u003eJudging by this definition, we could say that an expert is someone who has an extensive amount of knowledge in their own niche. Because of their knowledge of the subject, people who have any queries relating to the subject go to them for clarifications. For example, your friend might know a lot about cars. When you plan to get a new car, you might want his opinion on which car to buy and might even take him along for the purchase. Why are you doing that? It is not just because you want his company. It is because you trust his opinion and sense of judgment when it comes to cars. He may not be an expert in something else, but when it comes to cars, he is the expert.\u003cbr\u003eThis shows us the most important aspect of experts. They must have a great deal of knowledge on a particular subject, and their knowledge should be so much accurate and essential that people ask them for their opinion on various aspects under that domain. The trust factor is important here; a person becomes an expert not through his or her knowledge alone, but through the application of that knowledge. In the above example, if your friend’s choice of car for you has been quite appropriate, his position as an expert in your view has been consolidated.\u003cbr\u003eSo, if you just know something about something, you are not an expert at it. You might have even pursued that subject in your academic education, but that doesn’t make you an expert at it, despite the mortarboard and the university degree that proclaims that fact. What really makes you an expert is if you are able to analyze something in that niche using your knowledge and if you can use that knowledge to help other people make suitable decisions.\u003cbr\u003eAlso, it is important that you are very convinced about what you say. You should have a strong – even headstrong sometimes – opinion. You must very convincingly say, “No, this is the right car for you; I am telling you. Get something else and you will repent later.” And you must say that with the right knowledge and the right confidence.\u003cbr\u003eExperience keeps reinforcing expertise. You start with nothing but knowledge in your mind, but slowly as you use that knowledge, you gain experience. This makes your knowledge more powerful. And you become able to see beyond that knowledge. You are able to apply it. That’s an important feature of an expert – they are able to apply their knowledge in the right way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Prerequisite to Being an Expert – Having the Knowledge\u003cbr\u003eThe first thing that you need when you try to become an expert at something is knowledge. You cannot become an expert at something that you know nothing about. Well, even if you know a lot of things about something, you cannot be an expert at it. That is the reason why you have to constantly keep learning. Keep on adding to your knowledge all through your life – there is no end to that.\u003cbr\u003eBut, what improves things a lot is that you have to only learn about your chosen niche. For example, if your niche is baking cakes, you have to learn only about that. When you stamp your credentials as an expert at baking cakes, no one is going to ask you about barbecuing. However, if there is something they ask you about your subject of expertise, i.e. baking cakes, and you don’t know the answer, then you come across looking like a non-expert and that too, big-time!\u003cbr\u003eDon’t think that the Internet is the fount of all knowledge. Information, yes, but knowledge, no. To get more and more knowledge on your subject, you have to use both online and offline sources. Online sources are good for clearing your concepts about something, but that’s not enough for an expert. For that, you will need to go into the depth of things. That is where you will need to visit places like bookstores and get books and CDs on the subject. Probably, you may also have to join a course. In fact, that’s a very good idea. Even if you think you are an expert at something, attending a course on it could help you update your existing knowledge and show you a very interesting thing – how another expert tackles the subject.\u003cbr\u003eYou have to remember that an expert should not be proud or closeted about their knowledge. In fact, they must always be open to gaining more and more information on their subject and try things out. They must observe how others are going about the thing that interests them. You can become an expert at something only if you absolutely love it. 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