Segmenting Your Target Audience Through Your Copywriting

Ask any copywriter what the first commandment of copywriting is and they’ll quickly tell you “Know Thy Target Audience.” In order to write effectively you have to know this one group of people and know them well. I guess that’s why many people get so frustrated when it seems they have more than one preferred customer base. One of the most frequent questions I get asked is, “What if I have more than one target audience?” In all actuality, you probably don’t. You just have different segments of the same audience.

Ranking Well In Non-US Searches

Yes, we supposedly work on the World Wide Web, but localization and micromarketing (a term I learned from a Stuart Elliot column describing a marketing pitch by Sharper Image to one area of Soho in New York) increasingly segment and complicate results, especially across foreign search portals. So here are some suggestions – from the Search Engine Watch forums – for reaching potential clients who live in countries other than yours.

Do You Buy Into The Hype?

“You could make 1 million dollars in the next 30 seconds”! Or “Quit Your Day job and become the internets next millionaire”. If you have surfed the internet for any length of time you have undoubtedly come across a few websites with the sales copy mentioned above. The fact of the matter is the world wide web is filled with “get rich quick” claims.

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