December 14, 2019
Knowing Your Audience
Sent by Jonathan Stark on December 16th, 2019
This week on TBOA, Rochelle and I ask the question:
“How well do you know your audience”
Talking Points
- Translating what you do into the language of your audience
- Knowing your goal
- Picking an audience
- Learning what your audience is talking about
- Speaking to your audience in a way that gets your message across
- Where to find audiences who are talking about the problems you want to solve
- Locally focusing
- Conversations in service of a mission
- Using the vocabulary that your audience understands
- Thinking about clients as an audience
Quotable Quotes
“A lot of people just think about their skills, they think about what their capabilities are, they’re very much thinking about themselves in sort of an employee/resume type mindset and not what they can do for their clients. And when I say do, I mean transform.” –JS
“You want to start with this idea, this picture in your head of who your audience is.” –RM
“If you want to know what your clients are thinking or you’re trying to pick a niche or whatever, go online and find where they’re talking.” –JS
“It may strike fear in your heart, but you have to do it anyway. If you can’t bring yourself to do it anyway, yeah, rethink leaving the salaried job.” –RM
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Yours,
—J