Monday, March 16, 2015

Adjusting Ad Hoc Personas



          Research is king – so now it’s time to set aside our presumptions and get down to who is really our product / or cause’s audience really is.  Well, for me this was a very revealing experience, upon conducting my research I found that Under Armour’s audience is more women that male, and is most likely to be in school or associated with college sports.  

               
I will be spending some time adjusting my current persona, Mike, and I am thinking about adding a female persona, Michelle, to capture what I am finding is to be necessary to expand the scope of the personas I am using to better segment and identify UA’ s target audience.  

Keyword searches show that people who search the brand frequently use the keyword “new,” in conjunction with their search more often than any other keyword (KewordSpy, n.d.).  This shows me that my initial conclusions about UA buyers wanting what “new,” or trendy was accurate.  

Also, the second most used keyword in conjunction with the brand show that colleges and universities and their branded sports equipment is very highly searched.  It seems there is a very large niche market that is specific to collegiate sports – a sector known for having young people with disposable incomes.  My initial ad hoc persona had the age group as 18-25 – so it seems that is very accurate to the age of college students, so this was correct as well.  

In addition to that I found that while I had initially presumes that the main audience was male, careful analysis of .com traffic and search words indicate that under armour is actually more followed by women and adjusting or adding a persona that is female would be highly advantageous. 

References:

Actionable Analytics for the Web. (n.d.). Retrieved March 16, 2015, from http://www.alexa.com
Digital Marketing Optimization Solutions | Compete. (n.d.). Retrieved March 16, 2015, from http://www.compete.com

Social Media Search Tool | WhosTalkin? (n.d.). Retrieved March 16, 2015, from http://www.whostalkin.com/search?q=under armour&x=0&y=0

KeywordSpy. (n.d.). Retrieved March 16, 2015, from http://labs.keywordspy.com/plugin/?n=

Keyword Research & Keyword Tracking Categories. (n.d.). Retrieved March 16, 2015, from http://www.keywordspy.com

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