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• Who do these types of people associate with?
• Are they smiling, are they outgoing, are th
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  1. You Must Find Your Ideal Target Market

  When someone visits your website or reads your marketing materials, one of the very first things they think is: "Is this service or product for me?" They want to know if your business or your services are designed for people like them and they want to know if you understand them, if you’ve worked with people like them before, and if you appreciate their situation and problems. This is huge!

  To define your ideal target market, here are some questions that you can ask yourself--it's kind of a fun way to do it and what I find is that a lot of business owners in the start-up phase don't think about who they love being around. They think about who they're going to sell to, who is going to want this, instead of thinking more about who they would actually serve well.

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      • You Must Create a Community

      You have to create a reason for your ideal clients to visit your website and purchase your products and services over and over again. That reason is a community. Solid businesses are built on relationships. Creating a community in your business (through blogs, forums, e-zine interviews and Q & A, physical events, and so on) allows you to build long-term relationships with your customers and it helps them to get to know you. This is especially important on the Internet.

      Online communities also encourage your customers to get to know each other. Many times they will form beneficial partnerships and support each other too. A community gives your customers a place to communicate with one another and to refer others to. And membership-based communities can generate substantial revenues for your business as well. Membership-based communities will also encourage customers to plug back in to your business year after year as long as you are still focusing on their needs/problems.

      • You Must Create a Database

      You must have a mechanism in place to store all your potential customers' contact information. Intimid