How To Make Sure Your Business Is Hitting The Right Audience
June 9, 2016
Finding the audience that’s right for you is a huge part of business nowadays. Without doing so, you could be wasting resources like money and time on people who are primarily dead ends. You could also easily find yourself getting in trouble. That’s why we’re going to look at how make sure you’re getting the audience you need.
Defining your target audience
The most important part of making sure you have the audience you need is by defining who exactly that should be. Having the will and the ability to provide a service is great. But if you can’t answer these questions right, then you have to wonder what it’s worth. Questions like: what value does your product have? What lifestyle does it fit? Who wants it? These are the important questions to defining your target audience.
Content for them, not you
Content marketing plays a big role, nowadays, in connecting you to your audience. Businesses of all kinds develop and deliver content to shared space with their audience. But you need to think about what kind of content it is that you’re delivering. It doesn’t necessarily have to be about what you do. It should be about the world you inhabit. The place you share with the audience. Find the content that’s relevant to that world, not just your services.
Doing some recon
Getting informed is an important part of making any step in business. One of the best ways to get informed is to look at how others are doing it. In terms of that audience you want, it’s your competition you should be looking at. Their marketing and social media campaigns are publicly available and can give you all the info you need on the audience you want to hunt down.
Keeping the others out
It’s not just about getting the audience you want and need. It’s also about keeping the others out. Mostly, this goes for businesses that can’t and shouldn’t be marketing to young audiences. Moralising aside, it can get you into some serious trouble. So if you’re offering an adult service, whatever it is, you need to protect its access. You need to incorporate age verification at the very least.
Talking to them
Do you want to find out more about your target audience? More about what they specifically want from you? Then start incorporating them into the process. Get in touch with them. Put a focus on providing customer service to those already with you. Send a thank you and get in touch to see if they’re willing to share feedback. Not all of it is going to be truly relevant or usable, but it can help you understand the people you’re dealing with a lot better.
Finding that all important target market is about understanding what value your business has to who. It’s about finding out what they want and what they need. Then building whole marketing and content building strategies around it. Just keep learning as you go and define your knowledge of your audience until you can even predict what will work best for them.