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How to Find and Convince Early Adopters for Your Product
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Nothing can entirely give your new product or service a boost as early adopters . However, the influence they carry over into your launch is vital, especially if you are only just establishing yourself in your industry. Most early adopters are social leaders that act as influencers and can get friends and family to buy your product when it is starting to take off. To have early adopters ready at the start of your sales cycle, you need to find them and win them over with your product. We’ll discuss how you can identify early adopters and get them to buy into your brand in this post.
How to Find Early Adopters There are three key ways through which you can find and pick up early adopters:
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Be Active on Social Media Customers love to interact with brands on social media. Particularly on Facebook, there are plenty of opportunities for finding early adopters without allocating a large budget on surveys. Instead, you can simply interact with your target market on this channel and see which of your potential customers engage particularly well.
Become One with Your Market Another crucial strategy for finding early adopters is to engage with them as a salesperson and as a peer. One great way to do this is to physically go where your target market likes to hang out, both offline and online. By being a part of their groups and events, you can identify who the leaders in those groups are, and therefore who would influence other future customers.
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Whilst you are making friends with your potential early adopters, it’s also crucial to establish yourself as an authority in your field. Ensure that you share content that your target audience finds valuable. Respond to questions on forms and groups, and provide helpful advice. Customers want to know that they can trust you as an expert before opening up. Don’t worry that giving them answers to their problems might defeat the purpose of your product. Not everyone wants do-it-yourself solutions, and DIYers will eventually reach their limit. That is where they’ll think of you and your services and turn to your professional help.
Formulate a Strategy for Acquisition When you have found your target customer, it’s time to think of their buying process. Map out the journey early adopters would follow on their way to buying your product or service. If you don’t understand their buying process yet, you need to do more research. This shouldn't be difficult if you are a part of their
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groups! You should be able to non-intrusively learn how they do their research, what sort of products they recommend, and what services they rely on. How your early adopters buy products will also depend on their demographic. For example, young audiences under the age of 25 will require a responsive website to browse on their phones. You’ll also need to complete all online transactions on mobile. Suppose your target audience is of an ethnic minority, for example. In that case, you should ascertain that your website is available in their native language.
Use Analytics on Your Chosen Channels to Find Early Adopters And finally, keep in mind that each channel through which you might be interacting with early adopters comes with its own metrics and analytics. Knowing how to make the most of the data can help you find the right target audience and get accepted into their community as a new expert.
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