6. ONLINE ORDERS
•Orders. How and when.
•Why did you buy? What keywords did you
use? How did you find us?
•Who are you?
7. WARRANTY CARD
•Why did you buy from us. Why not our
competitor? How did you find us. What kind
of google words did you use? Who are
you? Age, income, suburb, kids.
8. HOW TO FIND THEM
•Post up 140 character description on social
media and ask?
9. WEBSITE SURVEY
•Embed a short survey on your website
•Promote through social media
• Survey tools:
• Wufoo
• Zoomerang
11. EXISTING CUSTOMERS
•Do a survey with your existing customer
base or a customer base similar to yours.
•SurveyMonkey, Polldaddy, Google Docs
•Incentive
13. BLOG GIVEAWAY
• Sponsor a giveaway from a small to medium
blogger who hits this profile audience. The
entrants have to answer a couple of
questions to enter. You can collect
information including their profile. Also, they
can answer what they liked on your website.
14. MAGAZINE
•Identify a magazine that fits your target
market. Ask them, or find a
colleague, who'll let you know the
statistics and demographics on their
subscribers.
•Get advertiser packet.
15. RESEARCH
•Set up Google Alerts under your topic and
see where it leads
•Alexa
•Use Google or Bing. Once you have some
demographics, a tried and true search
should turn up more.
22. Brainstorm questions to ask on survey form
Different types of surveys
Questions to ask in person
Which method you will choose to verify
What blogs you will choose to align with
Editor's Notes
Answering one, two or three questions is quick. Take me beyond that and I’m bailing. If I have to “page next”, then you’ve lost me. There exceptions to this but they’re pretty rare for me.The first survey example below asks me three questions and the second example just one…
Look for the people that are different to your profile.You might see 80% of sales coming from 1 demographic. You want to see who is buying who is unlike everyone else. Then he was getting massage therapists – he emailed them and asked why they subscribed – then wrote an article about massage therapists – then he wrote to editor of massage magazine – then got shared in their online community. Look for the weird people – don’t create a new product, look for new people.