Target Audience: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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Business Definition for: Target Audience

  • a group of people considered likely to buy a product or service

Additional Resources

On Target
A target market consists of a group of most lucrative prospects for a particular product or service. It is essential for an organization to gauge the ‘mood’ of its target audience using market research techniques. However, these techniques do not seem to fit into the budget of many organizations. The...
Tags: Technique, Audience, Productivity
White papers 2004-08-01
How To Reach An Audience
To reach an audience, you have to know how to choose the right target audience, the right medium, and the right message. You can't communicate with everyone in the world. Great communicators know how to direct their messages toward an audience they can realistically expect to reach, whether that audience...
Tags: Audience
White papers 2007-01-17
Public Relations Productivity?
Should it be measured in "publicity by the pound," or by how well external audience behaviors help achieve the organization's key objectives? As your public relations program takes hold, you will notice that key points in your message have been internalized, and are now being played back to you by...
Tags: Corporate Communications, Public Relations, Marketing
White papers 2003-08-04
Target Audience Profiling Plan
This template helps you create a plan to determine the target audience for your product or service. You can use this template to help you identify the audience for your product or service and how you want those consumers to perceive your company.
Tags: Audience
Tools & templates
Speech Presenting - Seven Ways to Tailor Your Speech to the Audience
Every speech has an audience and every audience is different. Tailoring one's next speech to its audience is as important as the content in the speech. So how does a person connect with an audience so his message matches their expectations, wants and needs and he gets his message across...
Tags: Strategy, Management, Audience, Speech, EzineArticles.com
White papers 2005-09-05
Target Audience Profiling Questionnaire
This template helps marketing professionals define the target market audience that is most appropriate for a given product or service. This template walks through the development of a strong marketing questionnaire that can give insight into the motivations of the customers.
Tags: Marketing Research, Marketing
Tools & templates 2005-02-22
Using Integrated Marketing To Build Your Brand
Product promotion is the process of informing, persuading, and reminding the target audience about the product on offer. A successful brand is the result of a painstaking promotional effort over substantial amount of time. The organization conveys a particular message about the product to the target audience. The target audience...
Tags: Target Audience, Integrated Marketing, Branding, Marketing, Message, Product Promotion, Organization, Brand
Presentations 2003-01-01
Public Speaking - Learning To Say, "I Don't Care!"
Sometimes as a presenter you have to learn to accept that as long as you are performing by the rules, you can't necessarily care about how you are being received by every member of the audience. When you complete your thought with a listener, and you pause and move to...
Tags: Public Speaking, Audience, Target, DiscoveryArticles.com
White papers 2008-07-30
Category And Brand Management, Product Identification, And New-Product Planning
Product promotion is the process of informing, persuading, and reminding the target audience about the product on offer. A successful promotional strategy, with time, gives rise to a brand wherein some specific attributes of the product are institutionalized in the market. The product then becomes synonymous with the attributes. A...
Tags: Organization, Brand Management, Brand, Marketing, Marketing Research, Branding, Target Audience, Product Promotion
Presentations 2003-01-01
ABC special hits the target. ('We're Expecting' delivers target audience of women 18-49) (Brief Article)
P&G show may indicate new trend: advertiser-furnished programs that are not movies; |We're Expecting' delivered target audience of women 18-49 It would probably be hard to come up with a television program better suited to selling diapers P&G...
Tags: ABC Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., women
Research articles 1993-05-10
Standing out in a crowd: Creating max buzz for new BMW Mini; Automaker takes offbeat road for offbeat car.(Brief Article)
Like its target audience, the Mini Cooper is motoring down the road not taken. Like its target audience, the Mini Cooper is motoring down the road not taken.
Tags: BMW AG
Research articles 2002-06-17
Which are the best Marketing Vehicles to use?
This article explains some factors, which is best for marketing vehicles to use like reaching your target audience etc. The good news is that there are many low-cost as well as no-cost ways to communicate with your target prospects and customers. If your target is a skier, then an ad...
Tags: Marketing, Marketing Research, News
White papers 2003-01-01
Synchronizing the Brand
Synchronization at every level of contact between the target audience and the brand ensures that the brand that resides in the minds of consumers is the same what management intends is essential. The conceptual framework of brand synchronization reasons that a brand is inherently more powerful when its message and...
Tags: Brand, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
TAP For End Users
The Target Audience Profile for End Users template makes it easy to create a Target Audience Profile TAP for the end users because the basic information fields and questions are already set up. The information gathered in the TAPs of the current or prospective end users can be used to...
Tags: Information, Microsoft Corp., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
Tools & templates 2004-07-16
Target Market Worksheet
Use this template to identify where and who your target market is. This gives you an audience to aim for and hone in on rather than using the time- and money-wasting shotgun approach.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur.com Inc., Management
Tools & templates 2004-09-16
Advertising Strategy and Other Lies
In an academic sense, advertising strategy encompasses the target audience and the key message, but does not dictate the tactics used to deliver that key message to the target audience. Here in the real world, however, what is practical and sustainable must affect strategic planning. The need for a strategy...
Tags: Strategy, Advertising Strategy, Advertisement, Management
White papers
Staying basic; IBM's recipe for success: Marketing principles, and message that clicks with audience.(Brief Article)
The key to building and marketing a strong brand is no longer tied to just hard-sell advertising but to a subtle message that resonates with the target audience. The key to building and marketing a strong brand is no longer tied to just hard-sell...
Tags: IBM Corp., marketing
Research articles 2001-10-08
How To Captivate Your Audience
Many people say that the audience determines your quality as a speaker. A good public speaker does not only know what s/he can deliver to his/her audience, s/he also knows what the audience needs. A good public speaker knows the importance of establishing a connection with the audience. Sure, you...
Tags: Speaker, Audience, ArticlesCopy.com
White papers 2008-02-07
Winning Bids
This article focuses upon online auctions, which can be termed as one of the methods of marketing. An established auction becomes a conduit between partners and a target audience. Auctions also can be a cheap, targeted channel of distribution for older items or niche products. Marketers do not want to...
Tags: Auction, Primedia Inc.
White papers 2003-01-01
Effective Marketing for Small Businesses
If a person does not know who his customers are, how on earth is the person going to reach them? The most effective small business marketing strategies are the most highly targeted ones: the ones which are based on a clear understanding of who their target audience is. What's the...
Tags: Small Business, EzineArticles.com, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2005-05-10
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