How to Reach a Wider TAM with Your Content šÆš
Turning niche skills into mass-appeal: content that actually moves the needle

When you spend an hour editing a video that gets 200 views, but your 1-minute edit gets 20M views
Itās been a minute, Iāve been living life pretty hard. Weāre back.
There are two main ways creators win at content:
Share a hyper-niche, Olympic-level skill with a tiny audience of equally elite nerds.
Make content that connects with as many people as humanly possible.
Thereās merit in both, but the second is a winning strategy.
Letās talk about TAM (Total Addressable Market)āaka the number of eyeballs that might actually care about your content. If youāre trying to grow, your TAM should be big enough to reach any demographic.
Why Playing to a Bigger TAM Works (and Pays) šøš
Letās use my favorite example: tennis. (This is where I subtly flex that I was a hitting partner with the pros at Indian Wells this year. It was basically tennis Coachella.š¾)
Now, I could post content exclusively for D1-level athletes, pro warm-up drills, or break down why Alcarazās forehand looks like black magic. And sure, it would crush elite tennis players.
But you know what performs even better?
Why? Because it hits the full spectrum of tennis players. Guess what John Smith, the 3.5 lefty with a bum knee in your Saturday morning tennis league and Carlos Alcaraz have in commonāthey both had tennis rackets strung this week.
Big TAM = Big results.
How to Think in TAM Mode šš§
This is how I reverse engineer nearly everything I post:
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Can anyone in this space relate to this?
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Is it hyper-niche, or just niche enough to still go wide?
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Would it hit on For You pages from Milwaukee to Madrid?
Iām not saying water your content down. Iām saying pour that same sauce over a bigger bowl of pasta. Youāre still a specialistājust one with range.
Stop posting like youāre giving a TED Talk and start creating for the masses. Ironicallyā¦if youāre reading this, then this is my TED Talk. Your personality, your perspective, and your weird little skills? Keep those. Just make them make sense to more people.
Big TAM energy only.
Stay creative,
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