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6. Social Media and Target Audience
What is target audience?
Target audience represents the group of potential consumers you want to reach, in this case via
social media. It refers to those who are most likely to become your customers in the future, and
that is why your goal is to establish a connection with them.
When being active on social media in the purpose of marketing, you are not interested in
simply increasing the number of social followers. Yes, this can help you with popularity, but the
followers who are not genuinely interested in your business and products or services you
provide, will not interact on your social media accounts, they are unlikely to recommend you or
eventually buy from you.
This is why defining your target audience is one of the essential tasks, when defining a social
media marketing strategy.
You should start by asking yourself the following questions:
• What is my product (service)?
• Who is it for?
• Who will find it useful?
• Who will buy from me?
• Who will be interested in my business?
• Who were my clients in the past?
All of these questions will help you determine the type of consumer you want to reach. Be as
specific as possible when answering these questions as the answer is very important for the
future success of your social media marketing.
Have in mind that if you are trying to reach everyone, your strategy will be too general and you
might seem less focused on the group of people you want to target. On the other hand, if you
have specific group in mind, such as teenagers, male adults over forty, etc. you will be able to
use the suitable language and attitudefor your approach. In this way, your target group is more
likely to pay
attention, as its members will be able to identify with you.
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For example, if you sell beauty products for women over 30, you should have in mind this group
when posting status updates, images, publishing content on your blog. Posting a status update
about football or car repair will be absolutely useless in this case. It could have negative effect
on your current followers, who might change their mind about following you. Having in mind
that your target group is, in this case, the group of women over 30, you will create content to
which these women can relate. At the same time, you want to make a correlation between this
group and your business. This means that even though it seems that you might be talking about
cooking, as women over 30 can relate to that, it actually has nothing to do with it. Instead, try
talking about beauty tips and tricks, pampering, skin care, etc.
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