Identify Your Ideal Audience

Watch the following video for instructions on how to take this course.

Ultimate Goal

When you complete this training you will understand yourself and your music “brand” better. You will also know how to identify the right fans and the right opportunities. Finally, you will develop the habit of identifying and finding fans and opportunities.

[please note: this is an updated version of my “Find The Right Fans” course on 30minutefanfinders.com]

Course Action Plan

Here is a step by step action plan for this course. Each action step should take you 30 minutes or less to complete. Do at least one action step every day until you complete each one.

Day 0 Action Plan – Watch “Start Here” Video (above) and Print Action Plan Checklist (below).

Day 1 Action Plan – Watch video 1: Get to Know Yourself and Your Music.

Day 2 Action Plan – Send Fan Survey Email Script to at least 3 friends and fans.

Day 3 Action Plan – Complete Unique Message Action Sheet.

Day 4 Action Plan – Watch Video 2:  Define The Perfect Fan.

Day 5 Action Plan – Complete the Perfect Fan Action Sheet.

Day 6 Action Plan – Watch Video 3: Putting It All Together.

Day 7 Action Plan – Complete Unique Message / Fan Biography Cheat Sheet.

Action Sheet

Action Plan Checklist

Video 1: Get to Know Yourself and Your Music

Action Steps

Watch the video, do the action steps listed below and kick some ass. If you have any questions or comments, enter them under “Questions?” at the bottom of the page.
Each action step should take you 30 minutes or less to complete.
  1. Send Fan Survey Email Script to at least 3 friends and fans
  2. Complete Unique Message action sheet

Action Sheets

Links

Links labeled extra credit are not required but check them out if you get a chance. They will give you a much deeper understanding of everything I discussed in this module.
Extra Credit: Interview with Sally Hogshead on Social Media Examiner

Go Back To The Lesson Dashboard

Video 2: Define The Perfect Fan

Action Steps

Watch the video, do the action steps listed below and, as always, kick some ass. If you have any questions or comments, enter them under “Questions?” at the bottom of the page.
Each action step should take you 30 minutes or less to complete.
  1. Complete the Perfect Fan action sheet

Action Sheets

Links

Links labeled extra credit are not required but check them out if you get a chance. They will give you a much deeper understanding of everything I discussed in this module.
Extra Credit: Alexa.com
About this link: The link above will take you to a site called Alexa. They rank and compile demographic information for nearly every website online. Once you have a link to a website that you know your fan may frequent, copy and paste it into the enter a site box. You get a bunch of information about visitors to that site. Stuff like male to female ratio, education level, keywords they are ranking for, sites that are linking to this site (to help you find even more sites), and more. Use this information to both see how close you are and to find more data you might have missed.Note: Since this train was created. Amazon bought them and they recently changed their format from always free to 7 trial. Still useful and you can get cancel before paying. Also, check out Facebook Insights, Quantcast and SimilarWeb to get info on your audience.

Video 3: Putting It All Together

Action Steps

Watch the video, do the action steps listed below and, as always, kick some ass. If you have any questions or comments, enter them under “Questions?” at the bottom of the page.
Each action step should take you 30 minutes or less to complete.
  1. Complete the Perfect Fan action sheet

Action Sheets

Links

Links labeled extra credit are not required but check them out if you get a chance. They will give you a much deeper understanding of everything I discussed in this module.
Advanced Marketing Institute Headline Tester
About this link: When you come up with your “Band/Artist Identity Statement”, copy and paste it into the headline tester, select “Art & Entertainment” under category and hit submit.Try to shoot for something higher than at least 30% to start. You can always improve on it and try different taglines in the future but this will get you started. You can refine as you learn more about your audience and what they respond to.

Bonus: How To Keep Your Fans Around

Now that you know how to find finds, you'll want to make sure you are able to capture their info. That way you'll be able to keep in touch with them to tell them about new releases, performances, and whatever else.

Click here to get the “Email Jumpstart Checklist”

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