Who do you intend to serve in your business? Please don’t say – “everyone” or “anybody with a pulse.” That’s a sure recipe for disaster! — It’s essential to learn how to market to a target audience.
This article highlights five best practices for target audience marketing. The practices we share here build on each other and interact together to help you attract the right people.
To begin, you must choose your target. But don’t worry! The beauty of marketing to target audiences is that the audience can change. The audience you are serving today doesn’t have to be the same tomorrow.
For example: You may start out marketing to young moms with children under 5, and then realize that your anti-aging products are better for moms with kids in high school. Or, you may have two different products or services and one serves married men and the other serves retired couples. The key is knowing how to market to a target audience.
It seems like every attraction marketing course we invest in starts with this basic principle. It’s that important.
We teach on target audience marketing in Day 2 of our 5-day Recruiting Workshop. It’s just that important.
So, if you have not narrowed down your target audience yet, don’t delay another moment. It could be the very reason that you are not seeing any success or lasting results in your business yet.
You’re probably saying, “but everyone needs my products, I don’t want to leave anyone out.” We have made that mistake. Don’t worry, when you are finally crystal clear on your target audience, you will not exclude the people who really want your product. When you look at your clients or customers, most will be in your target market, but not all. Some people will see the great product you have regardless of how you have been marketing target audiences.
Let’s take a look at the 5 Best Practices we have determined will help you not only be clear on your target market but help with target audience marketing strategies as well.
Target Audience Marketing Practice #1: Define Your Target Audience
Defining your target audience
is a step that should be done once and then reviewed repeatedly to tweak and improve your definition. Your goal here is to describe your perfect customer or avatar as specifically as you can.
Who will want your product or service? Ask yourself questions like: Are they male or female, single or married, how old, any children, what kind of job do they have, where do they live, did they go to college, do they have pets, do they like to travel, what are their hobbies, and what do they do on weekends? Get creative. The more attention to take on defining your target audience the better. We have even named our avatar.
You may find that this target audience marketing practice gives you an avatar that looks very much like you. That is brilliant, isn’t it? Who better to market to “people like you” than you?
Target Audience Marketing Practice #2: Know Your Target Audience
When you have completed practice #1 appropriately, you have begun to know your target audience. Now, think empathy. Focus on knowing and understanding their pains and struggles, as well as their joys and dreams.
Make a list of everything you can think of. Ask yourself:
What pains or struggles keep them up at night? What makes them happy and content? Do they dream of traveling the world or being able to stay home with their kids (or grandkids)? Do they want to get out of debt because they want to be able to retire someday? Try to understand what particular emotions motivate them to action.
This target audience marketing practice will open for you many opportunities for providing solutions. Look at each of these struggles and figure out how your product or service can solve that problem. As an attraction marketer, you provide solutions. People will buy a solution much sooner than they will buy some product you are selling.
Target Audience Marketing Practice #3: Find Your Target Audience
Next, in order to market to a target audience, you need to know where to find them. Once you are clear on practices #1 and #2, you’ve got the “who” down. Now ask yourself, “Where would these people hang out?”
If you are marketing online,
there are niche groups in Facebook and LinkedIn. For Instagram and Twitter, people use hashtags to group together and be visible. We have details on how you can utilize Facebook groups for recruiting the perfect audience in our 5-day Facebook Recruiting Workshop.
If you are marketing offline, you can find people in malls, coffee shops, etc. Depending on your niche and the avatar you’ve created, you might find fitness buffs at a gym or health conscious people at the health food store. Again, be creative. Keep in mind who you are looking for and where they hang out.
Be careful with this practice. Once you find your target audience, marketing to them should begin only after you’ve worked into practice #4 and #5 … so you don’t scare away any perfect customers.
Target Audience Marketing Practice #4: Engage with Your Target Audience
This is a step that many people want to rush through, hungry for the sale. Be careful not to let your hunger get out of control. You will stand out from the crowd of marketers out there ready to devour the market if you take time to build rapport with your target audience.
Think relationships.
You build relationships by providing value. You do this by showing you care. It may take a conversation or providing a tool or resource that gives them a result. It may be sending them a sample.
People are usually not going to buy from you the very first time you contact them. You need to be a welcoming person. Imagine walking into a store. Someone greets you and generally asks how they can help you. Target audience marketing works just the same.
Someone has come to check you out (walked into your store). So, you welcome them and ask how you can help. You are trying to determine their need or interest so you can provide a solution. Will they be ready for your solution? Maybe not right away, so you want to soften them up and lead them into a place of trust.
Remember people can buy the same thing from a million different people (maybe an exaggeration), but you want them to choose you. Standing out from the crowd is how you market to a target audience. We’ll give you more tips and hacks on this in the 5-day Facebook Recruiting Workshop. Even though it’s formulated for Facebook, most of the teachings apply to any social media platform.
Target Audience Marketing Practice #5: Sell to Your Target Audience
This is the last and final step in your target audience marketing practice, but it’s what pays the bills.
You must have already succeeded by finding your audience and engaging with your audience. Now it’s time to solve their problems and sell to them. If you solve their problems, they will love you forever. Being a good attraction marketer is having people come to you because you have been attractive and not been sleazy or salesy. They see you as an authority and someone who has helped them. They trust you. Sometimes they will even sell themselves. For this target audience marketing practice be sure you know your product and what solution it provides. Share the solution by focusing on the benefits, and when possible the benefit of the benefit.
For instance, using a weight loss example, your product will help young moms lose weight, so they can fit into their skinny jeans again. The benefit is losing weight; the benefit of the benefit is wearing the sexy pants again. When you are marketing to target audiences in this way – to provide solutions, your sales should go up accordingly.
Target Audience Marketing: Next Steps
Defining your target audience is clearly your first step to a successful home business. Learning how to market to a target audience is made easier when you break it down into these 5 practices. To learn more about each of these steps, we challenge you to join our free 5-day Facebook Recruiting Workshop where you’ll
also learn how to have an improved image on social media, and how to find, engage, and sell to your audience.
As a bonus, you will receive a target market worksheet to complete. This can become a living and breathing document because everything you do to market your business will be easier when you’ve done the work defining your audience with clarity.
When you sign up for the 5-day Facebook Recruiting workshop, you are offered an opportunity to join a free coaching group for everyone that has gone through the workshop. This group includes a wealth of resources, and we continue to add bonus trainings to help in your recruiting and lead generation.
Start today becoming a more attractive marketer to your perfect target audience. Join the 5-day Facebook Recruiting Workshop here.
God's blessings to you!
David & Dana
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