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Competitive Analysis
 Finding a Market Fit From The Start
Your Market


• Your market are your customers
• Your market is not your community
• Your customers are your audience
• Your market is your audience
Where a Business
      Comes From
• Find a Good Audience
• Get to Know Their Needs
• Learn to Understand their worldview
• Define their - and your - constraints
• Use it all to craft a compelling offer
Where a Business
      Comes From
• Find a Good Audience
• Get to Know Their Needs
• Learn to Understand their worldview
• Define their - and your - constraints
• Use it all to craft a compelling offer
Notice something?
No Ideas Yet
Businesses don’t start
     with ideas
What happens when you
  start with an idea?
• Verify

• Explain

• Find people who will pay

• Revise based on feedback (if there’s even customers)

• Guess and check the price

• Always wonder about other similar ideas
Are you serving
   an idea?
Are you serving
  customers?
hint: your idea keeps asking to borrow money
Exchange
don’t you want somebody to love
Problems with Problems
• No idea who wants a problem solved
• You lack the ability to sell it to people.
• They don’t know they have a problem.
• They don’t care.
• They don’t see it as a problem.
Your Audience

• Will you enjoy working with them?
• Do they pay for things?
• Do you understand the audience?
• Do they understand you?
Good Ideas Come From
   Good Audiences
• What problems do they     • How do they look at
  have and want to solve?    their problems?

• What are they missing? • Can you solve it and
                              solve it well?
• What do they need?
                            • How do they think
• How do they want to         about and quantify
  hear about it?              value?
And that’s where
ideas come from.
Learn Quick from
  Levi Strauss
Learn Quick from Levi
        Strauss

• Look for gold rushes, not gold
• Serve the prospectors
• Seek the gold in what you already
  have and know
DFCR
DFCR

• Demand               • Cost
 How badly they want     How much does each
 it                      sale require to acquire

• Frequency            • Revenue
 How often do they       How much money
 want it                 each sale generates
DFCR for Indy Hall 1.0

• $4000/month Target
• 25 x $160/per member
   •   Demand - Low


   •   Frequency - Monthly (membership)


   •   Cost - Moderate to high


   •   Revenue - $160 (moderate to high)
DFCR for Indy Hall 1.0

• $4000/month Target
• 160 x $25/per member
   •   Demand - Moderate to High


   •   Frequency - Monthly (membership)


   •   Cost - Low


   •   Revenue - $25 (Low)
Reality?
3 levels of Membership

• Basic $25 = 50+
• Lite $175 = 15+
• Full $275 = 30+


• Bonus points - membership presales
Where to find a
        Good Audience
• Signs of life.
• Signal-to-noise ratio.
• Do people talk to each other?
• Are there regulars?
• Themes & topic patterns.
• Helpers.
The Marla Singer
     Effect
Where to find an
  Audience?
Use
  Keywords
in the Google
 your audience
    name +
Listen & Lean
Now is not the time to
        pitch
Things you need to learn



• Do these people try new things
• Do these people pay for things
No? Move on.
Yes? Learn more
Having trouble?
You’re not special
Excuse #1:
         It seems hard



• No shit. Put in the time, it’s worth it.
Excuse #2:
    It’s taking forever

• What’s your hurry?
  It’s not any more fun to stand around
  all day with a product nobody wants
  or you can’t sell?
Excuse #3:
    My Audience Isn’t
       Profitable

• Is there a business counterpart to
  your audience? Think creatively.
Excuse #4:
 My Audience Doesn’t
 Seem To Buy Things
• Remember, you don’t need your
  ENTIRE audience to buy things. Just
  some of them.

• Turn the audience around.
Excuse #5:
I don’t Like My Audience

• They probably don’t like you, either
• Turn your audience around
Excuse #6:
I Can’t Find My Audience

• Look for more specific versions of the
  same name

• Look for in-industry terminology
Questions?
Thank You!
@alexknowshtml - alex@indyhall.org

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Competitive analysis - Finding A Market Fit From The Start

  • 1. Competitive Analysis Finding a Market Fit From The Start
  • 2. Your Market • Your market are your customers • Your market is not your community • Your customers are your audience • Your market is your audience
  • 3. Where a Business Comes From • Find a Good Audience • Get to Know Their Needs • Learn to Understand their worldview • Define their - and your - constraints • Use it all to craft a compelling offer
  • 4. Where a Business Comes From • Find a Good Audience • Get to Know Their Needs • Learn to Understand their worldview • Define their - and your - constraints • Use it all to craft a compelling offer
  • 8. What happens when you start with an idea? • Verify • Explain • Find people who will pay • Revise based on feedback (if there’s even customers) • Guess and check the price • Always wonder about other similar ideas
  • 9. Are you serving an idea?
  • 10. Are you serving customers?
  • 11. hint: your idea keeps asking to borrow money
  • 12. Exchange don’t you want somebody to love
  • 13. Problems with Problems • No idea who wants a problem solved • You lack the ability to sell it to people. • They don’t know they have a problem. • They don’t care. • They don’t see it as a problem.
  • 14. Your Audience • Will you enjoy working with them? • Do they pay for things? • Do you understand the audience? • Do they understand you?
  • 15. Good Ideas Come From Good Audiences • What problems do they • How do they look at have and want to solve? their problems? • What are they missing? • Can you solve it and solve it well? • What do they need? • How do they think • How do they want to about and quantify hear about it? value?
  • 17. Learn Quick from Levi Strauss
  • 18. Learn Quick from Levi Strauss • Look for gold rushes, not gold • Serve the prospectors • Seek the gold in what you already have and know
  • 19. DFCR
  • 20. DFCR • Demand • Cost How badly they want How much does each it sale require to acquire • Frequency • Revenue How often do they How much money want it each sale generates
  • 21. DFCR for Indy Hall 1.0 • $4000/month Target • 25 x $160/per member • Demand - Low • Frequency - Monthly (membership) • Cost - Moderate to high • Revenue - $160 (moderate to high)
  • 22. DFCR for Indy Hall 1.0 • $4000/month Target • 160 x $25/per member • Demand - Moderate to High • Frequency - Monthly (membership) • Cost - Low • Revenue - $25 (Low)
  • 24. 3 levels of Membership • Basic $25 = 50+ • Lite $175 = 15+ • Full $275 = 30+ • Bonus points - membership presales
  • 25. Where to find a Good Audience • Signs of life. • Signal-to-noise ratio. • Do people talk to each other? • Are there regulars? • Themes & topic patterns. • Helpers.
  • 27. Where to find an Audience?
  • 28. Use Keywords in the Google your audience name +
  • 30. Now is not the time to pitch
  • 31. Things you need to learn • Do these people try new things • Do these people pay for things
  • 36. Excuse #1: It seems hard • No shit. Put in the time, it’s worth it.
  • 37. Excuse #2: It’s taking forever • What’s your hurry? It’s not any more fun to stand around all day with a product nobody wants or you can’t sell?
  • 38. Excuse #3: My Audience Isn’t Profitable • Is there a business counterpart to your audience? Think creatively.
  • 39. Excuse #4: My Audience Doesn’t Seem To Buy Things • Remember, you don’t need your ENTIRE audience to buy things. Just some of them. • Turn the audience around.
  • 40. Excuse #5: I don’t Like My Audience • They probably don’t like you, either • Turn your audience around
  • 41. Excuse #6: I Can’t Find My Audience • Look for more specific versions of the same name • Look for in-industry terminology
  • 43. Thank You! @alexknowshtml - alex@indyhall.org

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