How To: Creating A Buyer Persona For Your Small Business

Knowing how to market to your ideal client is the fastest and best way to get your company off to a great start.

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Owning, operating, and creating a small business is difficult enough without the right information to make it successful. Creating a buyer persona is one way to get in touch with the right type of buyer for your business. There are a few steps to creating a buyer persona and following these steps can help create a successful business. A business persona is essentially a profile of the ideal client that you or your products would serve over time.

  1. Determine the basic characteristics of your ideal buyer- this means things like age, race, sex, and basic income. Determining what basic characteristics your ideal customer will have is the first and foremost way to get your business off to a great start. Knowing how to market to your specific ideal client is the easiest and fastest way to get your business off to a great start.
  2. Determine Specifics- this means things like education level, income level, demographics like neighborhood and more. Determining these factors can help you figure out how to price your product as well. By knowing how much your buyer can afford, you can then tailor your products to the people you are selling to.
  3. Find Out How To Market- the last thing you need to do to create a viable buyer profile is to determine how market to your ideal client. If you ideal client is a teenager for instance, you may want to use Facebook marketing or television ads, for a middle age business person you may want to work with magazine or print ads, and so on.

Knowing how to market to your ideal client is the fastest and best way to get your company off to a great and prosperous start. By being able to know how to market to your client is the fastest way to get your business up off the ground.

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Though his chief ambition is to one day control the entire Internet, Jim busies himself in the meantime running our little web development and marketing agency. He's a certified super nerd who ranks coding in old, outdated languages and watching Star Trek reruns just a bit too high on his list of fun things to do. Outside of work, Jim enjoys Hockey (Tampa Bay Lighning, to be specific), more genres of music than most people realize exist, riding his Harley (he calls it "two wheel therapy") and exploring the world through travel.