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6 Effective Ways To Become A Well Known Authority In Any Niche

Published

11 years ago

Apr 13, 2014

Joel Brown (Founder of Addicted2Success.com)

Brian Horn How To Become An Authority Expert In Any Niche

Best-selling author and Authority Expert “Brian Horn” helps entrepreneurs and celebrities leverage their knowledge to gain authority status in their industry. Brian is a pro at amplifying his clients message and shows them how to convert their new audience into high paying customers.

Brian has been profiled and featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Forbes, Advertising Age and Inc Magazine named Brian an “emerging business leader to watch.”

The Wall Street Journal said:

“Horn’s ability to make a client into the Google Authority of their niche is simply remarkable.”

I was fortunate enough to have the chance to interview the main man “Brian Horn” to discuss the many different ways that people can better position themselves to become a force to be reckoned with and an Authority in their niche’.

So let’s read on, as Brian shares his 6 Ways to become a well-known Authority in any field.

6 Ways To Become An Authority

1. Position yourself

Don’t just focus on getting more traffic, or getting more sales. Take it back a few steps. Instead, start positioning yourself as the educator and advocate for the success of your prospects and customers. So now and then, go back to that one statement and ask yourself “Am I educating my prospects and customers? Am I advocating for their successes?”

A great example of an authority would be “Richard Simmons“, he’s been active since the 70’s as a health and fitness personality. You see him online and on TV Infomercials, and sure he is funny and sometimes over the top but let’s look at 2 things that he does to position himself as the authority in his field:

– He is an educator: He puts out daily content in the form of e-mails and messages on his site, videos on a regular basis and he’s always cranking out new DVD’s.

– He is also an advocate: Unlike all the other fitness products that are usually showing fit people working out, Richard will spend a lot of his time sitting at the bed side of people who are so morbidly obese that they can’t get out of bed and he’s crying with them, showing them he understands what they are going through. He tells them that he was also a heavy guy before and he shows them he really cares about them by putting himself in their position.

2. Micro-specialize

You really need to refine what you’re offering. Get super specific about what you are offering, and who you are offering it to. That way you will also have less competition. Instead of offering, let’s say “Marketing Services” where you will be competing against the likes of Seth Godin and everybody else that is really well-known and big in that field, you specify that you, for example, will just help Small Businesses in the Health Care industry with their Facebook promotion. With something that specific, you have very little competition. You can become really good at it, you learn more and more about Facebook, how people in the Health Care industry talk, how they think, what their pains are and what makes them successful.

You have micro specialized yourself to be the expert for their needs.

3. Know that people don’t care how smart you are

A lot of people think they have to be smart to be an authority. People will try to impress others with their knowledge, when most people couldn’t care less about how smart you are. I do a lot of authority building with Dentists and Dr’s and one of the things I tell them is that “people do not care about the diploma on your wall, you need to get that completely out of your head.” Nobody calls the dentist’s office and says “Well…. what does his diploma say?“.

If people have paid a lot of money for education, events and info products, I’m all for that, that’s great but at the end of the day people just want to know whether or not you can help them.

4. Know your type

There are 4 different Authority types that we use to help people position themselves:

1. The Mr. Joe Every Man Type: The “I can do it, you can do it!” type of person.

2. The Cowboy: Someone like Gary Vaynerchuk. A little over the top, calls out, is controversial and likes to curse a lot.

3. The Soldier: A protector type of person. This works great within Financial industries and is represented through a Dave Ramsey or a Suze Orman personality. They appeal to people who have been beaten down by a situation and they are there to protect them. So a Suze Orman or Dave Ramsey type of person would say “The credit card industries are evil, they have ben praying on you but follow this simple advice and you will be protected from those bad guys“.

4. The Wizard: Someone who has a very specific type of knowledge that doesn’t try to push-off on other people or make them just like they are, they try to help others to become a little more like them.

Tony Robbins is like a wizard. Tony doesn’t say “Hey come to my events and you will be just like me“, there’s no way you are going to be like Tony, but you can use his teachings to be a little bit more like him, and a little bit of that rubs off on you to want to be better.

5. Quit buying lots of products

I see people all the time that say “Ok, I’m just going to read one more book, I am going to one more seminar“, just because they get that hit of Dopamine, they think they are doing something better.

It is much more effective to focus on your mindset, focus on getting a good strategy down that is repeatable and that you can expand with instead of buying all the products ‘YOU THINK YOU NEED’ before you can start.

6. Know that people love people with flaws

So we do this in two ways. 1. Is with back stories. So if you are a Mr.Joe Every Man Authority, you would be someone who has lost a lot of weight and is now a fitness advice person who says “Hey, I lost 300 pounds, now I’m fit and you can do it too“, or “Hey I was broke, living in my truck so I learned how to invest in Real Estate and now I’m a millionaire“. Those back stories work great because they show that they were a failure before and it resonates with a lot of people.

The 2nd way is by poking fun at your self and showing a little self-deprecation. Someone who is a great example of this is Oprah Winfrey, with her weight struggles. Oprah does a really good job at this, she talks very openly and honestly about it. She doesn’t try and hide it or tell people not to talk about it. People love that about her.

If you want to hear more great advice by Brian Horn on how to master the art of Authority then tune in to his podcast shows with Jack Mize, an Online Media Marketing Strategists for small business owners and local marketing consultants.

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Tired of Wasting Money on the Wrong Marketers? Here’s How Smart Entrepreneurs Are Finally Hiring Right

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2 days ago

May 24, 2025

Addicted2Success Editor

If you’ve ever Googled how to hire a Facebook marketer or best TikTok marketing agency only to spend thousands on someone who couldn’t deliver…congrats, you’ve joined a very expensive club! For many entrepreneurs, hiring a digital marketer feels like more like visiting a casino and gambling with your runway, than it feels like securing a partner who’ll help build your business. Often, it feels like you’re betting on a stranger to grow the dream you’ve poured your savings into.

And way too often, you lose that bet.

You don’t need another list of the “Top 10 Agencies” with five-star testimonials and polished logos. You need to know which marketer can actually drive results for your business. Not in theory. In practice.

This is where entrepreneurs are learning to pivot. And it’s why a new platform called TruthMetric.com is turning heads across the startup world.

Why Most Startups Burn Through 3–6 Marketers Before Finding the Right One

Here’s the hard truth: most startups don’t fail because of their product, they fail because they can’t get sales or sell it fast enough. And in trying to fix that, founders usually go through five or six marketers, burning tens of thousands before finding someone who truly knows how to convert.

You build your product, get your website live, maybe even launch an ad campaign. But when you search for help and look up how to “hire a YouTube ads agency” or “top Facebook ad expert for Shopify”, you get hit with a sea of shiny portfolios, “ninja” titles, and endless promises.

Three months later, you’re still waiting on your first profitable campaign, and you’re most likely out tens of thousands, feeling utterly defeated…and maybe grinning with an affinity for that upcoming boxing class with a picture of that marketer’s fac……nevermind.

If this sounds like you, it’s time for what one entrepreneur called a strategic shift to scale smarter, not harder.

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TruthMetric.com isn’t just another freelancer platform or agency directory. It’s the first hiring solution where you can see three years of real, verified marketing performance before spending a dime.

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This level of clarity is something you won’t find on platforms like Upwork or Fiverr. And it solves what many founders know too well as the New York Pizza Problem: where every marketer claims they’re “the best,” just like every pizzeria in Manhattan says they’re #1. Often without showing you results, you get sucked into this dream of collaboration, until the nightmare commences the moment you fork that first invoice payment. Hence the deception that leads to many business owners losing their hard earned savings and budget to launch their grand idea.

With TruthMetric, you finally get the data to decide for yourself, BEFORE you hire. Now if only New York Pizza shops had the same transparency then maybe you’d finally find the best pizza in New York, perhaps the perfect post work out after a boxing sesh? I think so!

Why Founders Are Shifting to Results-First Hiring

Most entrepreneurs think they need to do it all themselves, until they burn out or burn through their budget. That’s exactly why this founder had to drop the Superman complex and hire a marketing genius.

What makes TruthMetric so powerful is that it turns hiring into a confident move, not a hopeful one. You’re no longer guessing. You’re choosing from proven performers. You know what vertical they dominate. You know their past client performance. You see the monthly results from the campaigns they ran, and the outcomes they achieved.

It’s not just efficient. It’s empowering.

Scaling Quickly Requires Automation and Eliminating the Noise

Founders who scale quickly understand one thing: growth isn’t just about hustle, it’s about systems. TruthMetric is the system for finding great marketers at speed. No more DM’ing ten freelancers or interviewing agencies feeling like you are asking the world of them to just see some prior results. Instead you get to see the information you need to make an informed decision and plug into verified talent, all ready to perform.

This difference allows for you to match perfectly with the right talent quickly. If you’re building your business to run lean and fast, this convenience plugged in with automation can help you scale your small business right alongside your new marketing hires.

Why TruthMetric Is Also a Boon for Marketers, Not Just Founders

This isn’t just a win for founders, it is a gift for great marketers, too.

If you’re a freelance marketer who’s been quietly pulling 10x ROAS for clients while being passed over for flashy agencies, you now have a stage where your results speak louder than your brand.

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The Secret Weapon for Investors and M&A Operators

There’s another angle here that some of our readers might miss.

Investors, private equity firms, and M&A advisors should be drooling at the thought of having a proven talent pool they can plug and play and the ability to use TruthMetric to revive underperforming companies. Imagine acquiring a business or becoming an active investor, then dropping in a verified operator with a history of explosive growth in that niche.

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That kind of insight has never been available before. You couldn’t do this on Upwork. You certainly can’t do it through a friend-of-a-friend referral.

And when it comes to attracting high-performing talent, here’s how to hire top talent and keep them around.

Let’s Really Drive This Home…

If you’ve wasted money on agencies or freelancers who couldn’t deliver, it’s not because you’re bad at hiring, it’s because the game was stacked against you. Trusting dreamy charismatic sales pitches over data was a doomed approach from the start.

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It’s time to stop guessing and start hiring based on data.
Visit TruthMetric.com and make your next marketing hire the one that actually works.

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