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Share of Ideal Market

How much of our ideal market do we already serve?

What it looks like on the Dashboard
The normal firm. It rose from 3.2% to 4.4%, inside its 2% to 15% range, and is forecast near 4.8% by October 2027.

The normal firm. It rose from 3.2% to 4.4%, inside its 2% to 15% range, and is forecast near 4.8% by October 2027.

Illustrative. Juniper Ridge Advisory is a fictional firm with a full year of modeled data, analyzed the way we analyze yours. The green band is the healthy range; the dotted line is where the Growth Plan is expected to take it.

How to calculate it

Ideal-profile clients you serve divided by the ideal-profile organizations you can realistically reach, in the regions and industries you sell to.

For example

44 ideal-profile clients out of about 1,000 reachable organizations is 4.4%.

Healthy range

2% to 15%.

If it's too low

Positioning may be unclear or reach weak: the right prospects haven't heard of you, or can't tell you apart.

If it's too high

You're nearing your market's ceiling, and growth will need a new region, industry or offering.

What moves it

Ideal Client Share and Profit by Channel.

Watch out for

A market defined too broadly. Count only organizations that fit your ideal profile and that you can actually reach, or the number looks small and tells you nothing.

Vital Signs

You can't pull a Vital Sign.

It moves because the levers do. Your Dashboard shows each Vital Sign against its healthy range, with the line your Growth Plan is expected to follow. Before you pull a lever, check the Vital Signs it could push out of range.

See where you are. Know where to go.

Start with the Growth Benchmark to see how you compare. Or get the free guide to the 15 Growth Levers and the 7 Vital Signs.