A Free-Reprint Article Written by: Marty Bradfield
Article Title:
Marketing Tip: Connecting With Your Target Market
See TERMS OF REPRINT to the end of the article.
Article Description:
I am forever amazed at the responses I get, when I ask
online marketers who is in their target market... Everyone?
Really? In this article, I use a touch of humor to open your
eyes to the real answer behind that question, and later in
the article, I show you how to quickly and easily reveal
your true target audience...
Additional Article Information:
===============================
1127 Words; formatted to 65 Characters per Line
Distribution Date and Time: 2010-11-02 10:00:00
Written By: Marty Bradfield
Copyright: 2010
Contact Email: mailto:marty.bradfield@thephantomwriters.com
For more free-reprint articles by Marty Bradfield, please visit:
http://www.thePhantomWriters.com/recent/author/marty-bradfield.html
=============================================
Special Notice For Publishers and Webmasters:
=============================================
HTML Copy-and-Paste and TEXT Copy-and-Paste
Versions Of Article Are Available at:
http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/db/b/marketing-tip-target-market.shtml#get_code
----------------------------------------------------------
Marketing Tip: Connecting With Your Target Market
Copyright (c) 2010 Marty Bradfield
Multiple Traffic Streams Report
http://thephantomwriters.com/ebooks/multiple-traffic-streams.html
There are four types of people in the world... There are dog
people and cat people... And, there are people who would own
neither and people who own both...
My wife and I have always been dog people... Our neighbor is a
cat person...
My wife is fond of saying that the only good cat is a dead cat...
My neighbor has threatened on dozens of occasions to kill our
dog, if our dog did not stop barking at his cat... Our neighbor
despises our dog, because our dog barks at his cat, and his cat
walks by our yard as in fear for his life...
All you have to do is to holler real loud, when you see the cat
trying to sneak by our house... If you do it just right, the cat
will jump out of its skin, before setting the new land speed
record for a feline... LOL... My wife is so mean...
Putting my child-like amusement to the side, there is actually a
business lesson in this story...
Who Is The Real Target Market For Your Business?
I am forever amazed at the responses I get, when I ask online
marketers who is in their target market...
Everyone? Really?
You would be wasting your breath trying to get my wife to like
cats, and you would be equally frustrated trying to convince my
neighbor of the value of dogs in this world... Both are dead-set
in their ways, and you will not change their minds...
Try selling your kitty scratch pad to my wife...
Try selling your dog bones to my neighbor...
You could spend ten million dollars and a lifetime trying to
convince my wife that cats are awesome and she should buy your
cat toys, OR you could call my neighbor and get his business for
the price of a phone call...
Honestly, which approach makes more sense?
We Must Advertise To The Right People
If you have been trying to operate a business online for any
length of time, you will have realized by now that you must
advertise and there is always a cost for adverising -- a cost
that can be measured in either time or money...
We all have to spend time or money to attract an audience to our
website, so that we can make the pitch for our products or
services...
Given the high cost of advertising -- free or paid, it makes
sense that we should try to talk directly to those people who are
most likely to buy what we are selling, doesn't it?
This is why it is so important for us to properly identify our
real target market...
If you deliver your pet-product advertising to people who refuse
to own a dog or cat, then you are wasting your limited time or
financial resources trying to sell your stuff to people who would
never buy your goods...
Think about selling ice water to an Eskimo... Then realize that
the guy in the desert is parched for a drink, and he might pay
ten times the going rate to buy your ice water...
If you are talking to the wrong people, your advertising will
produce few sales, and therefore, your advertising will be very
expensive...
On the other hand, if you are talking to the right people with
your advertising, you will be able to sell more stuff to more
people, thereby reducing your overall cost of advertising...
When your advertising consistently pays for itself, you will find
it a no-brainer option to keep advertising...
You will find that by taking your advertising resources and
messages to the right audience, you will be able to consistently
produce profitable results for your business...
Tracking Down Your Target Audience
I have often found that forums are an excellent tool for finding
new ways to reach my target audiences...
Contrary to what you may have taught by other marketers, I don't
seek out niche consumer forums so that I can drop links in my
signature file... That could be a real waste of time, since most
consumer-oriented forums do not allow signature files...
Whatever the product or service, I seek out consumer forums for
the niche to do research... I want to learn about the people who
are in my target market...
I have found that the consumer forums in any niche can teach me
three important lessons about reaching my target audiences:
1. I can find forums where I might be able to advertise on-site;
2. I find other websites that my target audience finds useful,
where I might be able to buy advertising; and
3. I find the questions that people in my target audience are
asking -- questions that I could possibly answer in the form of
an article for my website or a syndicated article.
I know you have heard it before, but I will reiterate the point
here... Google is your best friend...
Since I have been talking about dogs and cats in this article, I
wanted to emphasize the usefulness of forums with examples...
In my first search, I plugged in the words "dog forum" into
Google... The first result was http://www.dogforums.com/
With more than 68,000 threads and 800,000 posts related to dogs,
I am certain I would have no problem finding other dog-related
websites and topics for articles that would be of interest to
readers in that niche...
In my second search, I queried Google for "cats forum" and
found http://www.catforum.com/
It contains 67,000 threads and nearly 700,000 posts... Once
again, it will not be hard to find related websites where I might
be able to advertise, and I will have no problem uncovering
questions that my target audience is already asking, so that I
can construct articles for my website or syndicated articles that
will directly address the needs of the people in my target
audience...
In Conclusion...
I have come to realize that for as long as my wife and I continue
to live where we do and my neighbor continues to live where he
does, my wife and my neighbor will always be tweaking each other
over our dog and his cat...
The only way for that battle to end is for one of us to move out
of the neighborhood... LOL
As a business owner, you must understand that your target market
can never be described as everyone on the planet... It is
important for you to do your research, to better understand who
your real target audience is, so that you can more easily
understand how to get your advertising message to them
directly...
Once you understand who is in your target market and how you can
reach them with your advertising, you will find yourself on the
road to real success...
----------------------------------------------------------
Marty Bradfield teaches the Basics of online marketing and
Cutting Edge Techniques used by online marketers, to develop lead
generation systems for new businesses. He recommends the 80-page
report that outlines 35 Proven Traffic Generation Techniques used
by professional marketers to build their online businesses:
http://thephantomwriters.com/ebooks/multiple-traffic-streams.html
--- END ARTICLE ---
Get HTML or TEXT Copy-and-Paste Versions Of This Article at:
http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/db/b/marketing-tip-target-market.shtml#get_code
.....................................
TERMS OF REPRINT - Publication Rules
(Last Updated: May 11, 2006)
Our TERMS OF REPRINT are fully enforcable under the terms of:
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281.ENR:
.....................................
*** Digital Reprint Rights ***
* If you publish this article in a website/forum/blog,
You Must Set All URL's or Mailto Addresses in the body
of the article AND in the Author's Resource Box as
Hyperlinks (clickable links).
* Links must remain in the form that we published them.
Clean links should point to the Author's links without
redirects having been inserted into the copy.
* You are not allowed to Change or Delete any Words or
Links in the Article or Resource Box. Paragraph breaks
must be retained with articles. You can change where
the paragraph breaks fall, but you cannot eliminate all
paragraph breaks as some have chosen to do.
* Email Distribution of this article Must be done through
Opt-in Email Only. No Unsolicited Commercial Email.
* You Are Allowed to format the layout of the article for
proper display of the article in your website or in your
ezine, so long as you can maintain the author's interests
within the article.
* You may not use sentences from this article as an input
for any software that steals sentences from others in
order to build an article with software. The copyright on
this article applies to the "WHOLE" article.
*** Author Notification ***
We ask that you notify the author of publication of his
or her work. Marty Bradfield can be reached at:
marty.bradfield@thephantomwriters.com
*** Print Publication Reprint Rights ***
If you desire to publish this article in a PRINT
publication, you must contact the author directly
for Print Permission at:
mailto:marty.bradfield@thephantomwriters.com
.....................................
If you need help converting this text article for proper
hyperlinked placement in your webpage, please use this
free tool: http://thephantomwriters.com/link-builder.pl
Would you like to learn how to improve the performance of your
article marketing campaigns? Download our F.R.E.E. 108-page
Article Marketing Ebook at:
http://thephantomwriters.com/ebooks/advanced-article-marketing.html
*****************************************************************
*
* This email is being delivered directly to members of the group:
*
* aabusiness@yahoogroups.com
*
*****************************************************************
=====================================================================
ABOUT THIS ARTICLE SUBMISSION
http://thePhantomWriters.com/ is a paid article distribution
service. thePhantomWriters.com and Article-Distribution.com
are owned and operated by:
Bill Platt
3010 E Raintree
Stillwater, Oklahoma USA 74074
Learn more about our article distribution services by visiting:
http://thephantomwriters.com/x.pl/tpw/info/article-distribution/index.html
The content of this article is solely the property
and opinion of its author, Marty Bradfield
http://thephantomwriters.com/ebooks/multiple-traffic-streams.html
----------------------------------------------------------
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
----------------------------------------------------------
Looking For Quality Content?
The Syndicator provides free, quality syndicated articles
for your website that are automatically updated each week.
Syndication feeds include:
Business/Sales
Internet Marketing/Promotion
Web Design/Development
Biz Tips
Web Design Tips
Home & Family Matters
Dinner Ideas
Health & Fitness
Horoscopes
AngelVoice
Headlines
and more...
http://www.web-source.net/syndicator.htm
########################################################
Post Articles: mailto:aabusiness@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe: mailto:aabusiness-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Unsubscribe: mailto:aabusiness-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
Change subscription: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aabusiness
List owner: mailto:aabusiness-owner@yahoogroups.com
0 comments:
Post a Comment