Get to know who you’re selling to

Build more effective marketing with a deep understanding of who you're talking to.

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Why audience profiling matters.

Great marketing starts with knowing who you are talking to. What motivates your audience, what puts them off, how they make decisions and where they spend their time.

01 It makes your messaging more effective

When you understand your audience properly, you can speak to them in a way that actually resonates.

02 It helps you allocate budget smarter

Audience profiling shows you where your highest value customers are and how to reach them.

03 Not all your customers are the same

Different segments behave differently. Profiling helps you understand those differences so you can tailor your approach and speak to each group in a way that works for them.

How we build your audience profile.

We ask a lot of questions. It is one of the things we are most known for. We use a wide range of research tools and data analysis techniques to get right under the skin of your customers. We are not satisfied with a surface-level picture. We want to know what makes them tick.

Data gathering

We bring together everything we can find about your current and potential customers. Quantitative and qualitative. First and third party.

What we do:

  • Analytics data and customer records

  • Market research reports

  • Social listening and digital behaviour

  • Third party data tools

Research

We go beyond the data to understand the human beings behind the numbers. Using proven research techniques to dig into motivations, attitudes and behaviours.

What we do:

  • Customer surveys and polls

  • Focus groups and interviews

  • Segmentation analysis

  • Customer journey mapping

Profile development

We take everything we have learned and build detailed, rounded profiles of each key audience segment. Not just demographics. Real, actionable insight.

What we do:

  • Audience personas and profiles

  • Segment definitions and sizing

  • Behaviour and motivation mapping

  • Channel and media preferences

Strategic application

We translate your audience profiles into a clear strategy for how to reach and engage each group, with the messages, channels and formats that will work best.

What we do:

  • Audience strategy and channel plan

  • Messaging framework by segment

  • Content and creative recommendations

  • Media targeting recommendations

Why partner with M3 for audience profiling?

We dig deeper than most

Surface-level data only tells you so much. We go further, combining data analysis with real human research to build audience profiles that actually change the way you market.

We turn insight into action

Knowing your audience is one thing. Knowing what to do with that knowledge is another. We take your profiles and turn them into a concrete strategy that drives results.

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We connect profiling to your wider work

Your audience insight feeds into everything we do, creative, media, strategy and content. It is the foundation that makes all of it more effective.

We have done this across many sectors

Our team brings experience from a wide range of industries and audience types. That means we know the right questions to ask and the right tools to use.

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FAQs

Audience profiling FAQs

We’ve answered the most common questions we get asked about audience profiling.

What is audience profiling?

Audience profiling is the process of building a detailed picture of your target customers. It covers who they are, what they value, how they behave and where they engage with brands like yours.

How is audience profiling different from market research?

They are closely related but different in focus. Market research gives you a broad view of the market. Audience profiling goes deeper into the specific people you are trying to reach and how to connect with them.

How do you use audience profiles?

We use them to shape everything from your messaging and creative to your channel selection and media planning. They make sure every part of your marketing is aimed at the right people in the right way.

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