Tutorial: How To Identify Your Ideal Target Audience (Part 1)
When you are launching your blog or when you are restructuring your blog with the intent of developing a pay for access community then you will need to make sure of two things, first – you will have to be clear on what your information service offer is and second- you will have to know exactly who will be reading your blog because you have to have a specific information offer, for a specific audience, with a specific information need in order to sell the benefits of a pay for access community.
What Is Target Market?
It is segment of web surfers that you would helping with your blogs information. You need to have a target audience of readers so that your readers can recognize the value of your marketing and information messages. If you have a general blog topic without a target focus then the information you produce will be too general to ignite feeling in your blog readers. Your blog readers must be people that you can communicate very personally with about a subject. A target audience is the most important aspect of building a profitable blog that it designed to eventually generate profit with a pay for access community.
How to Identify Your Target Market?
You need to choose one particular group of people whom you can woo with your infomation. You have to choose ONLY ONE social group per blog that you own.
The process of identifying your perfect target group depends upon your perception of how your information would match the needs of a social group. For example, your topic is affiliate marketing then you will have to a think of a social group that you can teach about affiliate marketing, like baby sitters for example. Instead of having a blog about simply affiliate marketing. Your blog will be a service that teaches baby sitters how to generate additional income by promoting affiliate products. Yah dig?
In order to identify the perfect target audience you will need to find the link between your blogs topic and some form of personal empowerment and then you will need to identify a group that will benefit from your brand of information empowerment ideas.
Write Your About Page
Once you have identified the perfect social group to target with your personal brand of empowering ideas then your will be ready to write your About Page.You About Page is supposed to provide a clear description of your information offer and how it can be used by a social group to overcome a personal problem.
It is forbidden to put something like: “Hi my name is KissytheCutie and we will explore….”. instead you must identify right away how your blog will be used to help a reader. Don’t try to sell the benefits of your community just yet because you first have to get people to recognize the value of your information.
Conclusion
In the preparation of building you pay for access community, you must identify a specific social group. You must identify a social group and then link your blogs topic to the empowerment of that social group.
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