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Should I Niche Down? I Built the Funnel, Then Quit It November 1, 2026 · J.D. ForrestI ran the niche-down, funnel and lead magnet playbook the way the gurus said. It made money. Here's why I walked away and what I'd tell you now.
Niche Down or Not? What to Do When You Have Too Many Interests November 1, 2026 · J.D. ForrestTold to niche down but you care about ten things? Here is what narrow-focus advice gets right, where it fails, and how to build around a lens instead.
What Comes After Search Is What Came Before It August 18, 2026 · Marlon GreavesCondé Nast and USA Today are planning as though Google sends them nothing. Marlon works out which pre-search discovery tools a one-person site can still run.
The Niche-Down Racket Is Live July 10, 2026Should you niche down? Mostly no. The advice pays the people selling it more reliably than the people taking it. I tore down the aisle and kept one honest argument.
How to Validate a Product Idea Before You Build It (The Pre-Sell Test) June 21, 2026Stop building products nobody buys. Validate demand with money first using a one-page pre-sell test you can run this weekend. Real method, no surveys.
Best Writing Niches in 2026: Where Buyers Actually Spend June 18, 2026The old 100-niches list is dead. In 2026 the niche that earns isn't a topic, it's a buyer with a wallet plus an angle AI can't fake. Here's how to find yours.
The Whole Road Led Here June 7, 2026Every job, the service, the strange degree, the things I made under other names. All of it was me loading the truck to run one network alone.
A Niche of One: Niche Down to Yourself, Not a Topic June 1, 2026 · J.D. ForrestA niche of one is a category with one occupant. Stack your obsessions until no one else does your exact thing, and you become the only option, not the best option.
The Three-Problem Method September 3, 2025Passion does not scale. Finding your niche is an operational problem. Document three problems you have actually solved and your niche identifies itself.
What it Means to be a Niche of One August 10, 2025Being a niche of one means building from your lived experience and your own way of seeing instead of chasing market categories. What that looks like day to day.
How I Became a Niche of One August 5, 20251,500 job rejections and a Fortune 100 career in the rearview. How one piece of advice pushed J.D. Forrest to stop hiding and build his own category.
Six names, one engine May 20, 2025I publish under six names that never guess they share an author. Six times the work? No. Same engine, swapped faces. Here's how one person runs a studio.
Give the best one away January 15, 2025My most-downloaded products are free, on purpose. The giveaway is the salesperson that works while I sleep and earns the next sale.
Simple. Repeatable. Human. September 3, 2024More platforms, more funnels, more burnout by Tuesday. I run on three words instead: simple, repeatable, human. The whole operating system, in one breath.