One of the reasons why content providers fail to build their audience is because they strive to create content for everyone. However, when it is unclear whether or not they are the target audience, individuals have a hard time connecting with material and, ultimately, with the producer of that content. I’ll lead you through four stages to help you figure out who your target audience for your online courses is, so you can create content that will resonate with them and help you to sell your online courses.
1- Analyze your current customers
Examine the features of your best existing consumers and develop a list of common traits into at least one profile. Those with the largest transaction sizes, the highest retention, and the finest clients to work with are just a few examples of successful statistics.
Break down the consumers into various segments if feasible. Find the ones that offer the most gross revenue for the least amount of effort. Also, look for customers that aren’t the most profitable, but who are reliable and will help you maintain your regular operations. Knowing who you’re interacting with right now allows you to broaden your horizons and reach out to a larger portion of your target market.
2- Study the audiences of other creators in your niche
While the preceding phase provides some insight into who our target audience is, it does not provide a complete picture. To learn more, we’ll look into who makes up the audiences of artists that publish comparable material to ours.
Look for a creative person in your field who has some of your own attributes. Examine some of their most popular postings and go through to the profiles of those who have left comments, making notes on what you see. Are there any trends or commonalities that you see when you see more of that creator’s audience?
You may see, for example, that the majority of the commentators are in the same stage of life or live in the same region of the world.
Do this for a few different creators’ audiences to determine if there are any connections between them.
Now we’re going to apply the same method to additional online locations where these audience members could congregate.
3 – Look at forums and communities within your niche
An online forum or community is another wonderful location to identify genuine individuals that represent an audience that could connect with your material. While some forums and communities are run by other artists, many are run by the audience members themselves, giving them a unique insight into who they are.
Reddit and Quora are excellent sites to find out what’s going on in your industry. Let’s imagine you want to provide material about cake decorating, for example. With over 130,000 members, there is a subreddit dedicated to cake decorating.
You may do something similar by clicking through posts with a lot of engagement on this page. Then, in the comments, click on the people’s profiles. This will allow you to see their postings as well as other sorts of material they engage with, which can provide you with some insight into the general features of individuals that frequent that forum.
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In the final phase, we’ll compile all of the information we’ve gathered into a persona.
4- Build a persona
Based on your study and genuine facts about who is in your existing audience, a persona is a fictitious portrayal of your ideal audience member.
This video is geared for new producers, but if you already have a following and your platform gives data on who they are, you may include that information into this exercise.
We’ll conceive a hypothetical audience member and try to characterise them in this phase. Choose responses for the following questions that best suit who you feel is your ideal audience member based on what you’ve learned so far, using your notes from the previous phases as a guide.
- What is their age range or what stage of life are they in?
- What kind of interests or hobbies do they have?
- What kind of buying power do they have?
- What language do they speak?
- What part of the world are they from?
- What kind of challenges or struggles do they have?
It’s tempting to be ambiguous while addressing these questions. You don’t want to leave anyone out, after all. However, try to be as specific as possible. The goal of this exercise is to help you communicate more effectively with the sort of individual who would make a wonderful audience member, not to prevent you from interacting with a wide range of people.
Having a well-defined character may help you be more explicit about the language, style, and storylines you use in your content, which can help you grow an audience more effectively.
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