Understand your customers
Defining your ideal customer
Know exactly who you're for (and who you're not).
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What's the difference between an ICP, a buyer persona, and a target market?
Target market is the pool, ICP is the best-fit company/account you go after, and a persona is the individual human inside it who feels the pain and...
How do I know if I'm targeting the wrong customer?
Watch your best customers, not your loudest. If the people who onboard fastest, churn least, and refer most look nothing like who you're marketing ...
Should I focus on one customer segment or serve everyone who'll pay?
One, ruthlessly. Serving everyone means your product, messaging, and support get pulled in ten directions and you win nobody's heart. Dominate a si...
How do I build customer personas that are actually useful and not fiction?
Base every persona on real interviews, not your imagination, real quotes, real jobs, real objections. A useful persona changes a decision you'd oth...
Should my ideal customer be the person who pays or the person who uses the product?
Separate the two early because they often aren't the same person, and your whole go-to-market shifts depending on who you center. Whoever holds the...
How do I keep my whole team aligned on who our ideal customer is once we start hiring?
An ICP that lives only in your head fractures the moment sales, marketing, and product each imagine a different customer. Write one short, shared d...
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