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Weekend Project: Research Your Existing Audience

ProBlogger

In fact, the following strategies will allow you to determine exactly who your best customers are so that you can optimize your marketing to speak directly to their fears and fantasies, and push their “hot buttons,” allowing you to attract more of the same (high-value) customers. Putting it all together: creating your customer avatar.

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Weekend Project: Research the Audience You Want … but Don’t Have

ProBlogger

The so-called “gurus” relentlessly preach a gospel of Customer Avatars and Empathy Maps, telling you that you must know the hopes, fears, and dreams of your readership in order to effectively position your offer. Mining Facebook: a treasure trove of marketing goodness. Facebook is a goldmine for the blogger or online marketer.

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$100,000 in One Week, a Viral Nova Follow-Up

Viper Chill

I don’t really doubt Daniel’s claim, partly because his comment actually had an avatar and partly because his site actually looked good. Here’s the fact I see in Quantcast: They’re coming back. Daniel confirmed that this is Australian dollars so at the current exchange rate that’s about $90,000 USD.

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