Comments on: 7 Ways To Research Your Freelancing Target Markets http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/ Freelance Advice and Freelance Jobs - FreelanceSwitch Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:19:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: 60 Helpful Blog Posts for Freelance Writers and Bloggers | Freelance Writing Jobs and Other Stuff http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-30824 60 Helpful Blog Posts for Freelance Writers and Bloggers | Freelance Writing Jobs and Other Stuff Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:58:53 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-30824 [...] 7 Ways to Research Your Freelancing Target Markets at Freelance Switch [...] […] 7 Ways to Research Your Freelancing Target Markets at Freelance Switch […]

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]]> By: MUCKING OUT THE BLOGPILE… http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-17480 MUCKING OUT THE BLOGPILE… Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:01:16 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-17480 [...] the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is 7 Ways To Research Your Freelancing Target Markets. digg_url="http://havecoffeewillwrite.com/?p=6797"; digg_skin = [...] […] the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is 7 Ways To Research Your Freelancing Target Markets. digg_url=”http://havecoffeewillwrite.com/?p=6797″; digg_skin = […]

]]> By: Aaron Cruikshank http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-15229 Aaron Cruikshank Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:51:30 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-15229 Ps. @ Michael You need to lighten up, man. This site is a community, not a BNI meeting. We're all friends here. Ps. @ Michael

You need to lighten up, man. This site is a community, not a BNI meeting. We’re all friends here.

]]> By: Aaron Cruikshank http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-15228 Aaron Cruikshank Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:50:24 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-15228 Here's a trick for marketing your business: 1. Identify your 3-5 best clients and your 3 worst clients. 2. Interview them to find out why they did business with you in the first place. You'll learn alot about how your brand is positioned in this way and might come up with some ideas that you wouldn't have naturally come up with on your own. You could even ask your clients how they would market your business if it was their business. A theme will emerge. Here’s a trick for marketing your business:

1. Identify your 3-5 best clients and your 3 worst clients.
2. Interview them to find out why they did business with you in the first place.

You’ll learn alot about how your brand is positioned in this way and might come up with some ideas that you wouldn’t have naturally come up with on your own. You could even ask your clients how they would market your business if it was their business. A theme will emerge.

]]> By: White Paper Pundit » Blog Archive » Understanding Your Target Market via White Papers http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-15208 White Paper Pundit » Blog Archive » Understanding Your Target Market via White Papers Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:32:23 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-15208 [...] know. Reading white papers from your target market is a great way to understand that market. The Freelance Switch blog had this to say on the subject of using white papers as a way to achieve this [...] […] know. Reading white papers from your target market is a great way to understand that market. The Freelance Switch blog had this to say on the subject of using white papers as a way to achieve this […]

]]> By: susan http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-15190 susan Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:50:51 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-15190 I had a comment all prepared, and it vanished when I read Michael's comment. I had a comment all prepared, and it vanished when I read Michael’s comment.

]]> By: Sean Hodge http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-15184 Sean Hodge Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:57:45 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-15184 Yet another reason for me to start getting involved in online social networking. Some good ideas about joining relevant groups in popular places online. I think I should have put this one on my new years resolution. Thanks. Yet another reason for me to start getting involved in online social networking. Some good ideas about joining relevant groups in popular places online. I think I should have put this one on my new years resolution. Thanks.

]]> By: Thomas Allen http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-15144 Thomas Allen Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:16:36 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-15144 Hi Michael. Yes, drinking (on a Friday night, nonetheless) and making a goofy post on a blog that scarcely targets my industry certainly should disqualify me from consideration for a job. If those are your standards for hiring, well, you're not doing a good job. My company would suffer without a doubt if I applied that criterion to selecting sub-contractors, etc. A lapse in judgment? Hell yea. Grounds for not hiring someone? Don't know who peed in your Wheaties™. I think your sanctimonious, critical attitude would make you a far less attractive job candidate. Hi Michael. Yes, drinking (on a Friday night, nonetheless) and making a goofy post on a blog that scarcely targets my industry certainly should disqualify me from consideration for a job. If those are your standards for hiring, well, you’re not doing a good job. My company would suffer without a doubt if I applied that criterion to selecting sub-contractors, etc.

A lapse in judgment? Hell yea. Grounds for not hiring someone? Don’t know who peed in your Wheaties™. I think your sanctimonious, critical attitude would make you a far less attractive job candidate.

]]> By: Mark H. Abucayon http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-15134 Mark H. Abucayon Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:12:10 +0000 http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-of-freelancing/7-ways-to-research-your-freelancing-target-markets/#comment-15134 wow that was nice- I like it. keep posting nice articles and well surely keep coming back. Thanks wow that was nice- I like it. keep posting nice articles and well surely keep coming back. Thanks

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