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Masterclass: Getting to know your audience

Getting to Know Your Audience

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Masterclass:Getting to know your audience

Overview

• Introduction• What is an audience?• How to question• Internal research• External research• Toolkit• Creating personas• Starting a strategy• Recap & final questions

Introduction

John BrownHead of Engagement, [email protected]

What is an audience?

“The assembled spectators or listeners at a public event such as a play, film, concert, or meeting”

- Wikipedia

What is an audience?

“The assembled spectators or listeners at a public event such as a play, film, concert, or meeting”

- Wikipedia“My customers”

- -Grumpy CEO

People you want to talk or listen to- Hotwire Labs

Where can we listen to an audience?

So, what’s missing here?

YOU!

How to question

Questions to ask

What channels do you use?

Why do you love/hate us?

Who do you think our competition is?

What do you do before you like a brand?

What marketing activity really annoys you?

Who’s a figurehead in the business?

What is the experience like?

How do you ‘discover’ the business?

What emotions do you get from the brand?

What do you want to talk about?

What have you read about us?

Who influences you?

What does ‘new’ mean to you?

What’s our purpose?

What do you think customers think we stand for?What do you think we stand for?

Internal research

Internal research

Reports Staff interviews Customer interviews

Internal research

Reports Staff interviews Customer interviews

Internal research

Website and owned social channel data

Internal research

Website and owned social channel data

External research

External research

Med

ia tr

ends

Surv

eys

Search trendsSocial data

External research

Med

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ends

Surv

eys

Search trendsSocial data

Can identify

• Who has covered them before• Who is organically interested• Who is writing similar articles• Who is interested but not

aware• Who the competitors are• How the competitors fare• When coverage appears• Which journalists are most

interested• Which publications to target• The angle to take • Content ideas • Direction for messaging• Events to have a presence at

External research

Med

ia tr

ends

Surv

eys

Search trendsSocial data

Can identify

• How people find the client’s site

• What search terms they use• What search terms are being

used generally• How the client ranks against

these terms • Who is performing best in

search• Where the client ranks against

competitors• How search changes across

the year• Which topics to use on site • Keywords to be using in online

content

External research

Med

ia tr

ends

Surv

eys

Search trendsSocial data

Can identify

• Volume of online discussion• Sentiment of conversations• Social channels people use• Keyword clouds• Top topics among the online

community • How keywords are connected

to each other• Performance of client online• Benchmarking against

competitors • Who the influencers are• What influencers talk about• When to post content• What content to post and

where

External research

Med

ia tr

ends

Surv

eys

Search trendsSocial data

Can identify

• Answers to question you have• Statistically sound results• High volume of results at low

cost (from $0.10 per response)• Ability to slice and dice results

• Region• Age• Gender• Phone OS• Parent / non-parent• Etc.

Toolkit

Toolkit

answerthepublic.com

boardreader.com

echosec.net

google.com/analytics

adwords.google.com

consumerbarometer.com

analytics. or /analytics

followerwonk.com

iconosquare.com

yougov.com/profileslite

notey.com

topsy.com

Toolkit

radian6.com

pulsarplatform.com

lp.hotwirepr.com

searchmetrics.com

trendkite.com

Creating personas

Use your data

What channels do they have?

Who do they want as their audience?

What audience do they currently have?

What channels are their audience on?

What are their competitors doing?

Who are their competitors?

What are their business goals?

What other marketing activity are they doing?

Who are the spokespeople?

What is their website like?

How are they ranking on Google?

What does their audience think of them?

What does their audience talk about?

What coverage are they getting?

Who are their influencers?

What are their influencers talking about?

What do their influencers think of them?

What negatives surround them? Are their specific job roles or demographics that matter to them?

Personas, you’re doing it wrongSamantha is 30, married with 2 kids, has a dog called Colin and likes to drink white wine on Saturdays while watching the X Factor.

The right way to create personasCharactersNeeds

InterestsExperienceObjectives

CharactersNeedsInterests

ExperienceObjectives

Starting a strategy

Put your learning at the centre

Personas

Channels

Topics

Journeys

Goals

Generate new leads by creating meaningful relationships with potential customers online,

through content on Twitter and LinkedIn. Measured with link tracking and Salesforce.

Summarise

Generate new leads by creating meaningful relationships with potential customers online,

through content on Twitter and LinkedIn. Measured with link tracking and Salesforce.

Roll with it

Recap & questions

Recap & questions

• What is an audience?• How to question• Internal research• External research• Toolkit• Creating personas• Starting a strategy

[email protected]

Thank you.