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Are you getting your point across?

Audience identification and target marketing:  Making the acquaintance of your audience and understanding its general mindset can be priceless.

Creating the world’s snazziest website and filling it with impeccable copy is a great start for sure, but if nobody visits for a read, why bother at all?

Keep your readers at the helm of your work, so as to shape a more customised and attractive piece.  In/exclusion of particular information and its presentation can prove to be vitally important, so try to consider who might read your writing and what they’ll value most.

Outside of the usual applicable concerns such as net surfing habits or spending patterns, your readers vary in age, race and gender, occupation, class, location and religion and numerous other aspects.   What do they want from you, why are they interested?  What have you got to hold their attention and what goals do they have?

It’s never easy and it’s certainly no exact science, but focus is vital to the realisation of your goals, be it selling, create a readership, attract newcomers or simply to acquire feedback.  Your game plan is every bit as important as the needs of your audience and without it; you could be relying on luck.

If your work is diverse, follow the same path into different, separate websites of your making.  A website that strays from its main topic is bound to lose readers who visit, hoping for a constant feed on their chosen topic of interest.

Simplistic phrases and terminology, absorbable content and neat layout are great attributes for a website, but it always helps to have a FAQ/help section too.

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