📢 Audience, Offers and Channels

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Sorry for the delay, I had too much on my plate this week that's why sending this email a day late.

Today I want to talk about the 3 fundamental elements of every business - Audience, Offers and Channels.

This framework applies to every business model - SaaS, Content, Services, anything. And is much simpler than the complex Product Market Fit framework. I think you will find it really cool.

But before we get into it, let's look at the finds of the week -

📢 Finds, recommendations and shout outs of the week

• This week I found the "Send and Grow" newsletter by Sparkloop. They are making waves in the newsletter ecosystem right now with multiple useful products. (ICYMI: I've been using their reactions tool at the bottom of this newsletter to gather feedback) I'm looking to grow my newsletters as well. So this daily 5 minute email is very useful for me right now. If you're looking to start and grow your newsletter then make sure to signup to Send and Grow. 

• This week's shoutout is for "Your DM Toolkit" by Shruthi Sundaram. If you want to up your Twitter game, and actually do useful stuff on Twitter then you will have to send a bunch of cold DMs to interesting people there. That's when Shruthi's advice will be very useful. There's no better packaged advice around DMs. Check it out.

• Important Note: If you want a shoutout for your product/newsletter/Twitter account in this section then just hit reply or DM me on Twitter. It's completely free, but you do need to be shipping cool shit. 😅

I only recommend stuff that adds genuine value.

Now, onto today's topic -

I've started to think of every business as a combination of 3 elements -

1. Who you serve - Audience

2. How you serve them - Offers

3. How you reach them - Channels

SaaS, Content, Service - every kind of business can fit into this framework.

Let's break this down -

Audience

This is the most important piece of your business

Who you serve Why them, why not someone else?

You need to have a clear user persona in your mind (or in a document)

Even better - do the work to know at least 5 people personally who fit this persona.

The narrower you are able to niche down, the more obvious value you will be able to provide to that person.

The other 2 elements in this framework also become simpler if you know your audience well.

Let's look at them -

Offers

What can you offer to your audience?

• A tool to help them automate tweet posting

• A list of topics to help them come up with better Tweet ideas

• A service where you write tweets and threads for them

Whichever method you choose, your offer needs to solve a pain.

The better you know your audience, the better you know their painful problems.

The better offers you will be able to make to them.

Here's where the P*in Killer vs Vitamin model also comes into picture.

Our goal is to make offers that are "must haves" instead of "nice to haves".

Channels

This is how you reach your audience and tell them about your offer.

If you know your audience well, then you know where they hang out online.

You have to find ways to go to these channels every day and talk about your offer to your audience.

You can do this for free by asking permission from your audience.

Permission means -

• Following you on social media

• Signing up to your newsletter

• Joining your community

You can also pay for access to the channel through ads and sponsorships.

Free vs Paid is a matter of preference/budget/time.

If you don't have money, go after free channels.

If you don't have time, go after paid channels.

Most business go with a hybrid approach - Paid + Free.

Paid is good because that's how you scale your marketing.

Take a look around...

Every business is essentially made up of these 3 elements - Audience, Offers and Channels.

Tell me what you think of this framework?

Thank you for reading.

Inspired by -

• Jakob Greenfeld's essay - Chanel Offer Fit vs Product Market Fit

Read the Twitter thread version of this post here.

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👋 Bottomline

Time to go, these were my best performing tweets from last week -

• A question about which formats do you like to read books in?

• Launch of my 14 Day Product Launch Challenge

• A tweet about how easy it is to start selling a digital product these days

Whenever you're ready, there are 3 ways I can help you:

🦉 21 simple tips to get your first 1000 Twitter followers without losing your mind here

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