“Build it and they will come”. This is totally False! Unless you are a 90s movie star, your name is big or you have a big-sized budget, this is not the way to get the attention of your target audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“oh, but I just built a website and I have listed my services and products for sale” That’s super! It surely is! We are not here to ruin moods or stamp out optimism, all we want to do is help you gain more business now that you have the correct<\/a> domain name<\/a> and your website is live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get the attention of more clients and drum up more revenue for your business, you have to get your target audience (clients and customers) interested in what you have to sell. The pertinent question is – how? Let us explore three different approaches you can use to find and get the attention of your target audience, so you can convert them to paying customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The number of users on social media is ever increasing, chances are everyone you know or could possibly know has a social media account – well, maybe not that guy who went ghost after college. This doesn’t mean you have to join every social media channel out there. In as much as your ideal customers are on social media, they are not on every single channel, your business doesn’t have to be either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you just launched an e-commerce site or a marketing blog<\/a>, why not try using Pinterest? On Pinterest you can share and create things that are linked to your website like a product or a post blog post. The more the pins you’ve created are shared, the more your following will grow. Pinterest basically serves as a visual road map for the discovery of great ideas, strive to ensure your pins are done well. Not a professional graphics designer? Not to worry, there are a lot of free tools like Unspalsh or Canva that can help you create amazing looking pins easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For lifestyle brands, Instagram is a great social media channel. Be square and be there -seriously, square images of 1080 x 1080 pixel is best on this platform, although there is an option for horizontal and vertical images. To locate your audience on Instagram, research the right hashtags and include them in your post when applicable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pro tip: Share your story and describe the image using captions but try publishing hashtags as a comment. This will help increase your posts visibility, through post engagement (comment on a post with hashtags perform better).<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you haven’t contacted your local Chamber of Commerce, now’s a good time to do so. Your business should not exist as an island – your local Chamber of Commerce can help open up networking opportunities for you to foster connections with similar but non-competing businesses in your industry. Talk with other Chambers members and find out what has and what hasn’t worked for their business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When you talk to other local business owner, you gain an advantage that isn’t easy to come by social media – word-of-mouth. A <\/a>Convince <\/a>and <\/a>Convert<\/a> research<\/a> states that the average American values word of mouth recommendation from family and friends 41% more than they value social media recommendations. When you build a relationship with other local businesses, you can tap into their network, thereby getting you business in front of new audiences – which means more business for your brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s your go-to search engine – Bing? Google? For us, Twitter is best. If you are looking for an engaging audience, twitter is the place to go. You can search for your target audience on Twitter using keywords, username or hashtags, location and much more. For example, if you are a friendly local microbrewery, searching for customers in your location – you can search on Twitter using advanced search for individuals having conversation about beer in your geographical location via Boolean operators . Individuals who are currently having conversations about your value offering, are more likely to talk about your store and site, when they hear about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What are Boolean operators? Boolean operators are symbols and words which improve your search results. For example, if your search for beer drinkers locally is returning a lot of local root beer drinkers, you could try searching “beer – root” as “Beer Minus Root” to help you get better curated results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s a cheat that often comes in handy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spend only the amount of time necessary on each social media channel to ascertain if your target audience uses it – do not spend all your time running wild on every social media network. Once you know which social network you target audience is, start to engage with them via these platforms. Where did people find customers before the advent of social media? Is it still possible? Yes, it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finding your audience doesn’t have to be done alone, make use of community health. Set up your business on social media channels, use it to locate your target audience and grow your following by getting in front of new audiences( via partnership with other similar businesses).<\/p>\n\n\n\n What are the tricks or hacks you have\u00a0 used to find your\u00a0 customers and audience on social media? We will\u00a0 love to know and other\u00a0 readers would too. Please let us know in the comments section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n1.Choose the relevant social media channel for your business<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
2. Build your off-line network<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
3.Use social media search to the find customers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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