Successfully reaching your target audience should be the main goal of your digital marketing strategy.

With over 2 billion digital consumers worldwide, it’s important to direct your business’ resources towards reaching your target market. Finding and connecting with your target audience will not only help you solidify your brand identity, but it will also drive up brand awareness and convert leads into paying customers.

Here are some tips on how you can reach your target audience: 

Identify who they are
The first step in reaching your target audience is finding out who they are. Developing a clear understanding of your target market can be tricky and time-consuming, but it’s the most important step in creating an effective digital marketing strategy.

1. Compile and analyze data on your existing customer and social media audience.
Compile and analyze data on your existing customers and social media audience. Check out the people who are already buying from you, visiting your website, following you, and engaging with your posts and take note of their age, gender, location, interests, and spending habits.

2. Use social listening to find conversations about your industry, your business, or your products. By monitoring relevant keywords and hashtags, you can uncover what people are saying about you and your competitors. Once you understand the general mood of your online audience, you can take steps to engage with them and transform them into new sales leads.

3. Create a buyer persona based on the data you’ve collected. A buyer persona is a generalized representation of the characteristics/demographics that make up your customers. This includes information such as their buying preferences, household income, age range, gender, etc.

Know where they spend their time
It’s easier to reach your consumer base if you go to them rather than wait for them come to find you. Identifying where your target audience spends most of their time and engaging with them on those platforms will greatly increase your exposure to the people who will support your business. For example, joining relevant groups on Facebook and participating in the conversations by asking questions and offering advice will give you opportunities to expose yourself to new clients and highlight your products and expertise. 

Create content that is relevant and useful
Once you have identified and located your target audience, creating relevant content is the next step. It is important to understand what your buyers are interested in. Understanding their preferences allows you to plan your marketing strategy to best align with their preferences and needs.

Creating interesting content is a major component in helping you generate leads and converting your audience into customers. Here are a few ways you can get your audience’s attention:

• Blog posts – written content allows you to engage with the consumer in a more in-depth way than pictures alone. Make sure you write about topics that are of interest to your target audience.
• Social media content – depending on the platform, social media allows you to use a combination of text, pictures and videos. This is a great way to reach and engage a wide portion of your audience.
• Videos – using video marketing is an excellent way to engage and interact with your customers. The key is to ensure the video is good quality and properly edited.

Consistency is key
Content consistency is key in your marketing strategy. When it comes to social media and blogging, your content needs to maintain a consistent voice, tone, style and schedule. When your content quality, quantity or schedule aren’t consistent, you can confuse your customers and lose their interest. Staying consistent not only helps create a better customer experience but it also helps build credibility, reputation, and trust.

Remember: Once you get to know who your customers are, it’s up to you to engage with them, build trust, and keep them interested.

If you need help determining who your target audience is and how to reach them, InMarket can help, just contact us here!