You may already have started your own service-based business and be up and running, but for those of you still doing your research, this article should help you work out who are your ideal customers and how to market to them.Don’t be under the impression that everyone will be your customer, as it’s very difficult to be ‘all things to all people‘ this is just too broad. You’ll need to narrow down your focus and understand how to offer the right goods and services to the right people to make a profit in your service based business.Age: Babies, toddlers, teenagers, young adults, middle aged, elderly
Gender: Male or female (or both)
Education/earnings: Lower or middle class, high earners, very wealthy
Marital status: Singles, married, divorced, living together as partners, widow/widowers
Locality: Local, national, or worldwide
Ethnicity: Asian, Afro-American or all groups
Religious background: One specific group or all groups
Family Life: Newly married, married with children, married no children, single parents, grandparents
After narrowing down your specific ideal market, you will have to spend some time researching the different ways you need to market to them. This can vary on their ages, gender, income and buying habits.
You may need to try several different types of marketing before you get it right.
I have found the 20 Ways to Make $100 Per Day Online report to be very useful in exploring different ways to market to different groups – I hope you find it useful too.

