{"id":22715,"date":"2016-10-03T17:31:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/?p=22715"},"modified":"2016-10-03T17:31:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:31:29","slug":"decide-on-your-marketing-target-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/decide-on-your-marketing-target-market","title":{"rendered":"Decide on Your Marketing Target Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decide on Your Marketing Target Market<\/p>\n<p>One of the first and biggest lessons people learn in marketing is how important it is to have a target market. Having a target market will allow you to target your marketing much better. It&#8217;ll allow you to save money on marketing by not selling to people who won&#8217;t buy. To find your perfect target market, the first step is to identify a need in a pre-existing market.  Then you check it against certain criteria to make sure you&#8217;ll be profitable. Read on to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>Find a Need<\/p>\n<p>Which market do you think will be more likely to buy a product: How to Prevent Divorce or How to Improve Your Cooking?<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the former is much more likely to purchase a solution. The reason is because they have a strong need for a solution.<\/p>\n<p>In general, the stronger the need for a solution the more people are willing to spend money. When you&#8217;re choosing a marketing target market, try and find people who have the most need.<\/p>\n<p>Find a Pre-Existing Market<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people make the mistake of trying to create a market. For example, an inventor might try and create a market for people who want to train their cats to bark like dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Although the idea is original, the reality is that there is nobody who&#8217;s already seeking out that product or solution.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s much, much more expensive to try and create a market than it is to find an existing one. It&#8217;s also far more risky because you don&#8217;t know if your product has a chance of &#8220;taking off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Criteria for a Good Target Market<\/p>\n<p>First, you want to look for people you can sell to repeatedly. If the product you&#8217;re selling is a &#8220;one shot&#8221; deal, you&#8217;ll make far less money than if you had a product that could be sold repeatedly. <\/p>\n<p>You should also look for a target market that&#8217;s ready to buy. For example, if your target market is people who cook, chances are they&#8217;re not very likely to buy. On the other hand, if you&#8217;re targeting people who desperately want to cure Acne, then you have a much higher chance of getting them to buy.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, believe it or not you want competitors in your market. Although it&#8217;s possible to find profitable markets with no competitors, it&#8217;s generally very unlikely. More often than not, other people have already tried whatever it is you&#8217;re doing and failed.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, when you&#8217;re considering a target market you want to actually look for competitors and make sure other people are already making money doing what you&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p>If you follow these criteria, you&#8217;ll have a very good chance of identifying a marketing target market that will be profitable for your business. Do your research carefully. Remember, time spent in this area could make a big impact on your business over the long run. That&#8217;s why big companies are willing to spend so much money on market research. 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