{"id":20788,"date":"2020-10-19T09:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T06:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/?p=20788"},"modified":"2021-06-28T12:10:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T09:10:30","slug":"define-target-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reliablesoft.net\/define-target-market\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Accurately Define Your Target Market"},"content":{"rendered":"
Knowing how to define your target market is critical to the success of your business.<\/p>\n
In this guide, you’ll learn how to define your target market to create more efficient marketing campaigns to increase conversions and drive better results.<\/p>\n
A target market is a specific group of consumers within an available market that you want to reach with your marketing campaigns. This group of people is highly-interested in your products or services and is more likely to make a purchase than an average consumer.<\/p>\n
Members of your target market will have characteristics in common, such as their age, where they live, what they\u2019re interested in, and more.<\/p>\n
Knowing how to define your target market is one of the most important components to the success of your business. If you don\u2019t know who your ideal customers are, you can\u2019t be sure your products or services are meeting their needs.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, running efficient marketing campaigns will be next to impossible if you don\u2019t have a clear idea of who your efforts should be focused on.<\/p>\n
As Seth Godin once said, \u201ceveryone is not your customer\u201d. When you market to everyone you are essentially marketing to no one.<\/em><\/p>\n If you target people who are in no way interested in what you’re selling you’ll be wasting your resources to yield little results. This will lead to low conversion rates and higher cost per conversions.<\/p>\n By clearly defining your target audience, your marketing budget will be much more cost-effective as your efforts will be directly focused on the people more likely to purchase from your business.<\/p>\n Your campaigns will be laser-targeted to meet the needs and desires of a specific group resulting in targeted website traffic<\/strong><\/a>, more conversions, and overall better results.<\/p>\n Knowing your target audience will allow you to further improve your products or services as you understand the pain points of your customers and what they are looking to solve.<\/p>\n The best tactics to find your target market are:<\/p>\n If you already have a customer base, the first step you’ll want to take to define your target audience is to analyze your existing customers.<\/p>\n As these people have already converted into sales, you can gain valuable insights into the type of people that your business is having success with.<\/p>\n Take a close look to see if you can identify any patterns in their characteristics. Some important attributes to evaluate include:<\/p>\n You can gain great insight into the profile of your customers, website visitors, and social media followers by thoroughly reviewing the data on your analytic platforms.<\/p>\n For your website, you likely already use Google Analytics to track your visitors. The free platform from Google provides incredible detail of your website users and all the actions taken on your site.<\/p>\n To be able to collect information about the people visiting your website, you’ll need to enable demographics and interest reports in your Google Analytics settings.<\/p>\n To enable the report:<\/p>\n Once enabled you can navigate to different reports in the audience tab to get a more detailed look at your users.<\/p>\n From the demographics report<\/em>, you\u2019ll be able to see the age and gender of your website visitors along with key metrics for each group including:<\/p>\n The Interest Repor<\/em>t in Google Analytics will tell you what your users are interested in around the internet. You can find the report under Interests in the Audience tab.<\/p>\n The report is broken into three primary sub-reports:<\/p>\n Social media platforms also provide useful analytics you can use to understand your audience better.<\/p>\n One such tool is Instagram which provides detailed information about the age, gender, location of your followers. It also lets you know the best time of the day for engaging with your followers.<\/p>\n Another useful social media tool you can use to learn more about your target audience is Facebook Audience Insights<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n You can search by different demographics such as age, gender, and location as well as other attributes such as interests and behaviors. This will help you discover any patterns in demographics or behaviors that you can use to define your target audience.<\/p>\n For example, let’s say you want to open a running apparel store in New York. You can select “New York for location, and for “Interests” select “Running.<\/p>\n Audience Insights will automatically populate the data for Facebook users in New York who are interested in running.<\/p>\n You’ll see that they are predominantly women, at 59%. Most tend to be between 25 and 34 in age. 44% are married and 64% went to college. You can also see an estimate for the total audience size of around 2 million people.<\/p>\n When you’re defining your target audience it is very important to understand the unique value of your products or services and who can benefit from them the most.<\/p>\n To start, you need to distinguish between your product\u2019s features and its benefits.<\/p>\n Rather than focusing solely on what you do and how you do it, closely analyze your products and services to see how they are of value to customers.<\/p>\n Ask yourself:<\/strong> What problem are you trying to solve? What desires do you want to fulfill? How does your product or service meet these needs?<\/p>\n Customers who will benefit from your business the most will share similar characteristics. When evaluating who has the most to gain from your products or services, consider the following traits:<\/p>\n Knowing this information will allow you to create detailed customer profiles for the different groups of people that can benefit from what your business offers.<\/p>\n You can segment your target audience even more by defining primary and secondary targets.<\/p>\n Your primary target audience is the main focus of your business and represents the group of customers with the greatest value to your business. This value can be the result of them having the greatest possibility of converting or having a higher average order value.<\/p>\n Many products and services will fulfill the needs of a variety of different groups of people. What makes your primary target audience distinct is that this group has the greatest need for your products or service, the ability to pay for them, and gains the most benefits.<\/p>\n They will live in the same geographic region as your business and will likely make up the bulk of your sales.<\/p>\n The primary target audience won\u2019t necessarily be the largest group in your market but it is vital to the success of your business.<\/p>\n Secondary target audiences work as a complement to your primary targets. They are other groups of people with a strong interest in your products or services.<\/p>\n Secondary target audiences can share characteristics with your primary audience while having unique attributes of their own.<\/p>\n These groups are less valuable to your business as they often have:<\/p>\n Checking your competition is an effective way to understand your target customer.<\/p>\n Identify your main competitors and take a look at their website, social media profiles, and search ads and try to discern who their target audience is.<\/p>\n You can get a true idea of their customer experience by signing up for their newsletter, following their social media pages, or even buying their products.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There are two more ways to effectively spy on your competitors and find their target market.<\/p>\n The first way is to use a digital marketing platform like SEMRush<\/strong><\/a>. These platforms have dedicated tools for analyzing your competitor’s audience.<\/p>\n For example with SEMRush Traffic Analysis tool<\/em>, you can find out in detail from where your competitors get traffic, what are the main characteristics of its audience, which social networks do they use, and a lot of other information that will help you build your audience personas.<\/p>\n You can also automatically compare the characteristics of your audience with their own and identify audience gaps to add to your primary and secondary targets.<\/p>\nHow to define your target market<\/h2>\n
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1. Analyze the profile of your existing customers<\/h3>\n
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2. Analyze the profile of your website visitors and social media audience<\/h3>\n
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3. Identify who can benefit from your product\/service<\/h3>\n
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4. Create primary and secondary targets<\/h3>\n
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5. Spy on your competition<\/h3>\n