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How To Get Right Audience For Your Online Business?

Find out how to plan and prepare better with these 11 tips and strategies.

By Madhu Kumar CPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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How To Get Right Audience For Your Online Business?
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You might explore getting the right audience for your online business by following the below 11 tips or strategies or ways that will help you plan and prepare better:

  1. Be an active user of social media platforms. Master in using at least 2 platforms for business reasons to get audience attention and to build business branding. Example: If your business is a B2C model, explore using the Facebook and Instagram platforms. If your business is a B2B model, explore using the Facebook and LinkedIn platforms. Use social media platforms (groups/communities/forums) productively.
  2. Make people aware of what your business can help them with and mention the web address to make them access your site. Make this your cover page photo on your social media platforms. Let people know who you are or what is your business is all about and how they can benefit when they visit your profile. Optimize your profile to drive traffic to your site. You can use design tools like Canva for the creation, which is beginner-friendly.
  3. You might also explore other social media platforms like Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok based on your interest and specifically where your business target audiences are spending their time or located. Local ad networks are an alternative too.
  4. Use events/seminars/conferences. Be a speaker or host to educate the audience about you or your business in order to increase focus based on the business niche you are operating in. Start building a tribe around you or your business. If you operate at a solo level, focus on building your personal branding and if your business is an entity, then focus on growing your business branding.
  5. Using paid ads marketing campaigns. This is an excellent approach to speed up the process of identifying a target audience. A good budget helps you to explore more opportunities in such marketing campaigns. In the initial phase of your business, keep doing trials with several marketing campaigns and study analytics to gauge the response and engagement to focus on or to strengthen further. B2C business models generally use Facebook/Instagram Ads Marketing and Native Ad Networks. Whereas, B2B business models use LinkedIn Ads and Facebook Ads marketing campaigns to drive traffic, leads and sales.
  6. Begin blogging about your field of expertise (niche). This aids in the growth of organic traffic as well as for lead generation. Pro-Tip: Use SEO strategies to boost the visibility of your blog on Google and other search engines, resulting in more views and clicks.
  7. Being a constant user of Facebook Groups is the best way to build a target audience. Gaining traction and increasing interaction can be as simple as developing personal branding or becoming a value giver in group discussions. A similar approach can be used in any other group or forum. Let people know on what topic you can be helpful to them by reaching out to you.
  8. To attract more attention, use social media live features occasionally to let them see you in action or organize webinars focused on your business's specialized subjects. People will value two-way interactions since they increase trust and authority.
  9. Adopt an affiliate program or referral program if possible in your online business model. Let affiliates do the job for you and you will compensate them for their efforts by offering commissions per lead or sale as per the product or service matrix. Due to the pandemic and the digital revolution, the majority of online businesses are adopting this method in their business and marketing planning to minimize ad costs, which is actually a win-win situation for affiliates and business owners.
  10. If your business is in e-commerce (fashion, beauty, or skincare, for example), you might want to look into using micro or nano social media influencers, which is a growing trend, because these influencers, bloggers, or content creators have a large audience in their niche and can help your business to explore prospects to generate sales by discussing your campaign goals with them. Extending prospecting using e-mail marketing will boost conversions based on your marketing goals. From all future perspectives, I advise you to build an e-mail list and focus on SEO strategies that will help you tide over any future algorithm updates. Email lists have an industry value of $1 in the internet marketing and business world and industry experts have vetted the ROI of $36 through this method. Hence, this cannot be ignored in any online business.
  11. Participate in group conversations about your business specialization whenever possible to demonstrate your experience and draw attention by adding value to the topic. By word of mouth in the network, this will progressively increase to develop the perfect audience for you and also strengthen your network who might inspire you over the period.

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Madhu Kumar C

Self Employed/Internet Marketer/Affiliate Marketer/Blogger/Ex-Engineer.

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