Developing Powerful Audience Personas: Sprint Feverbee 2016

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Developing Powerful Audience Personas

For Successful Online Engagement

lauralhampton impressiontalk

uk.linkedin.com/in/lauralhampton

laura.hampton@impression.co.uk

Influence

The capacity to have an effect on the behaviour of someone or something, leading to a desired outcome.

The use of psychological principles is powerful in

marketing & communications

Mirroring

Social validation

Similarity

Familiarity

Notice a common theme in these?

In order to properly engage, you need to know your audience

Who are you trying to speak to?

What are their interests?

What challenges face them/their industry?

How does your service/product/offer

help them?

Some people use audience segments

They consider things like age, gender,

location, education

They might consider roles such as business manager

or homeowner

This where most businesses start, looking at mass segments such as

‘manager’ or ‘homeowner’

Broad audience segments

Motivations

Personas

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Broad audience segments

Motivations

Personas

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This is as far as most businesses go. We seek to understand what

motivates our audience.

Broad audience segments

Motivations

Personas

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This is where we reach that really deep understanding of who the

audience is and can much better meet their needs.

Broad audience segments

Motivations

Personas

impression.co.uk

This where most businesses start, looking at mass segments such as

‘manager’ or ‘homeowner’

This is as far as most businesses go. We seek to understand what

motivates our audience.

This is where we reach that really deep understanding of who the

audience is and can much better meet their needs.

These can only tell us so much….

Persona

A fictional person that represents the intricacies of an entire audience segment.

Why?

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How

1) Start with your typical audience segments

Workshops

WorkshopsSales people

Customer service

ProductMarketing

Sales Data/CRM

Competitor Analysis

Surveys

2) Focus on what motivates them

Workshops

Surveys

Focus Groups

Social Media Analysis

Influencers

3) Build out a fictional person to represent all these elements

Techniques to build out your personas

Trade/Interest Publications

Conference Agendas

Social Media Engagement

News Stories

Surveys/Questions

Tools to build persona understanding

Google Alerts

Hootsuite for Twitter

Google Trends

Google Keyword Planner

Google Analytics

Use Your Personas.

Display

Discuss

“Is this right for….”

Content Grids

– Influencing customers is one of our biggest challenges

– We can only influence successfully when we know our audience

– Personas are representations of audience groups based on needs and motivations

– Don’t make personas and forget about them - use them!

Summary

Developing Powerful Audience PersonasFor Successful Online Engagement

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