Hi, kevin, that is really motivating.. What is obvious to you may be amazing to others.. Thank you for sharing that. I love your new profile.. I will share my Tylenol bottle with you...♥ Oh, I thought chunking was a hair stylist technique... ??

Hi Kevin, until we try something out or give it our best shot how do we know how anything will work out for us a bit like West Ham moving to the Olympic Park in Stratford.

Smart ideas came up from the purple hair man, I keep my eye on this I will learn a lot for sure :)

You make some really good points here. I'd also like to say that sometimes you have no idea how what you have learned in the past will be useful in getting your business online. Things pop up all the time.

Good post Kevin and Jim Phelps has some very valid points. This whole subject of "authority" is very wide reaching.

And this is why using the principle of niche marketing is so good for everyone. We just can't expect to be experts at everything.

But we can be very good in specific subjects.

And it's also a lot easier to educate oneself in a smaller, more targeted niche than to try and cover the whole spectrum.

Great post, Kevin. There's an old axiom, "Write about what you know." One doesn't have to have letters after their name to be an expert. Personal experience counts. When I was a full-time writer-for-hire, I specialized in working with professionals in a specific industry. I did a lot of ghostwriting for them, and in that process I did copious amounts of research into my subject matter. Even though my personal experience involved writing for someone else, I gained significant knowledge. One way a writer can overcome the "credibility question" is to quote other experts in their work. Citing opinions or the findings of others while wrapping one's own content around the quotes definitely leads the writer down the credibility road. After building a foundation of content, the writer is organically transformed into an expert.

Thanks for this blog Kevin. It has really given me a boost, as I fit in so well with what you are saying. Now I have more confidence to get bolder with what I have to say in my niche. Experience is a valuable education and how often have we all met someone with a lot of book learning but no real understanding?
Keep sharing, please,
Kari

Kevin, thank you for sharing this post. I feel I have specialized knowledge in a few areas, yet feel just like you mentioned here.

Kevin, this is so true. I have felt the same. Your points are making me reconsider a few ideas that I had. Thanks again!

This is really an interesting posting. I absolutely agree with you. One very obvious example opposite to your topic is radio frequency (RF). I have a friend who has no recognized qualification in RF at all, but his RF experiece is recognized by even the most respected PhD in the industry. His expertise is mainly his instinct and extensive experience in the field. RF is different from other thesis, result obtained from theoretic deduction in many cases are different from the actual results in the field. Hence, a person's practical experience is sometimes more valuable than his/her professional qualifcation deriving from academic studies.