14 day Email Marketing Roadmap: Day 3: Understanding Your Target Audience

Mark Thompson
3 min readJun 11, 2023
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Miss Day 2? : Setting Your Email Marketing Goals

Welcome back!

Today is Day 3 of our comprehensive journey into the world of email marketing. After discussing the importance of an email list and setting email marketing goals, it’s now time to dive into another crucial topic: understanding your target audience.

The success of your email marketing campaign hinges significantly on how well you know your target audience.

When you understand who you’re communicating with, you can tailor your messages to meet their specific needs, interests, and pain points. This, in turn, leads to more effective communication, higher engagement, and increased conversions.

Here’s how you can gain a better understanding of your target audience:

Create Subscriber Personas:

Subscriber personas are fictional representations of your ideal subscribers, based on real data about customer demographics and online behavior, along with educated speculation about their personal histories, motivations, and concerns.

Creating these personas can help you understand your audience better and segment them more effectively.

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Mark Thompson

Veteran Content Marketer, Keeping it Simple and Sharing What Works in my regular newsletter: https://substack.com/@simpleisprofit