SparkVox started broad and retention suffered. Narrowing to podcast hosts and expert guests made every feature feel necessary instead of optional.
Sean Weisbrot- Founder, SparkVox
Targeting everyone is a product strategy that sells to no one. The logic feels safe when you are building: bigger audience, bigger opportunity. What actually happens is your product does not feel essential to anyone. It feels fine. And fine does not convert.
We were building something that could work for basically any creator, any brand, any use case. That sounded like scale. It was noise. Every feature was optional because no feature was clearly for someone specific. Retention suffered because users could not point to the one job we did better than alternatives.
The answer was in front of us. Podcast hosts and expert guests already had the raw material: long-form conversations packed with post ideas. They were our users before we named them. We went back to the question we should have asked first: who is this actually for?
Not "content creators broadly" with a vague gesture toward podcasting. Actual podcast hosts creating content for their show and personal brand, and podcast guests doing the same. Two personas. One problem: turn recordings into LinkedIn posts in your voice without a writing habit you do not have.
Niching down is not about limiting growth. It is about deciding who you are willing to disappoint so you can genuinely serve someone else. The version before we narrowed had more features and worse retention. Specificity made every feature feel necessary instead of optional.
For how that plays out on LinkedIn channels, see one recording, two channels and repurposing a podcast episode into LinkedIn posts.
If you are pre-product-market fit and your landing page could describe ten different industries, you are not positioning. You are postponing a decision. Pick the user who hurts most, build for them obsessively, and let everyone else wait. SparkVox chose podcasters and guests because they already had the recordings. That specificity is the product.
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