FROM CROWDS TO A COMMUNITY
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CUSTOMER
GOALS
• Understand crowd psychology
• Analyse your current crowd
• Define your ideal customer
• Expand your crowd
• Turn them into a community
• Prepare them to become customers
WHY IS YOUR CROWD IMPORTANT?
• Belief Economy
• Credibility
• Trust
• Multiply your voice
CROWD PSYCHOLOGY IS...
CROWD PSYCHOLOGY IS...
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6 DEGREES OF SEPARATION
The idea that everyone in the world is six or fewer steps away from each
other
WHO IS IN YOUR CROWD?
WHO IS IN YOUR CROWD
• Age
• Gender
• Country
• City
• Timing
• Habits
• Challenges
• Aspirations
YOUR CROWD
• More women
• 25-54
• UK
• London/Brighton
YOUR CROWD
• 456/497 active members
• Fridays/Tuesdays
• Lunch-late
• Top posts 25 comments/282
views
• Top posts are engagement
posts/crowdsourced/opinions
YOUR IDEAL CUSTOMER
• Not everyone will be your customer
• Who do you want to interact with
• Where do they interact
• What content do they respond to
• What motivates them
WHO
• Who are you the target audience of?
• Use existing data
• Similarities/differences between current/ideal crowd
• As much detail as possible
• Personas:
Who
What
Why
WHO
WHAT
WHY
WHERE
• Where do you spend your time and why?
• Facebook vs Linkedin
• Twitter vs Instagram
• Radio vs Pinterest
• Quora vs Youtube
• Newspapers vs Reddit
• Meetup vs newsletter
• Hashtags vs word of mouth
WHAT CONTENT
• What content do you consume most?
• Video
• Photo
• Infographics
• Blogging
• Whitepapers
• Case studies
• Testimonials/Reviews
• Memes
• Related content
• Ebooks
• Printed material
• Newsletters
WHAT MOTIVATES
• Need
• Convenience
• Value
• Price
• Emotion
• Fear
• Power/status
• FOMO/exclusivity
• Community
• Curiosity
SNEAKY TIP TO HELP
CHECK COMPETITORS
• Who do they interact with
• Where do they interact
• What content do their crowd respond to
• What motivates their crowd
HOW TO EXPAND YOUR CROWD
ORGANICALLY
EXPAND ORGANICALLY
• the networks of your current crowd
• social media groups
• Google alerts
• landing pages
• guest blogs
• meetups
• forums
• hashtags
• PR
OBSERVE TRENDS
EVENTBRITE
MEETUP
SOCIAL MEDIA GROUPS
GUEST BLOGS
LANDING PAGE
GOOGLE ALERTS
GOOGLE ALERTS
GOOGLE ALERTS
GOALS
• S - specific
• M - measurable
• A - attainable
• R - realistic
• T - timebound
ONCE YOUR CROWD IS DEFINED
CREATE, ENGAGE, MONITOR
EXPERIMENT
Give your audience:
• The content they want
• On the channel they want
• In the format they want
• At the time they want
• Monitor the results
WHAT NOW
If it works?
• Keep going
If it doesn’t?
• Tweek and pivot
ADD VALUE
• What are your audiences challenges right now?
• How can you provide assistance to them?
• What can you offer them that’s different?
• How can you get them to engage with you and each other?
ADD VALUE
NEXT
• Analyse existing crowd
• Create personas
• Find target customers
• Create content
• Engage with audience
• Monitor results
• Repeat
TOP TIP
• Don’t rush it!
• Experiment
• Embrace this opportunity
THANK YOU
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From crowds to a community