DWC Conversations 28: Where Are My Customers?
DWC Conversations 28: Where Are My Customers?
Most small businesses don't struggle to find customers because they aren't working hard enough. They struggle because the work is going into the wrong channel — one chosen from advice that assumed everybody sells the same thing to the same person. Local Facebook groups work brilliantly for a treatment room and waste a month for a business selling software. That one mismatch costs more customers than any amount of daily posting ever recovers — and it's the first thing this tool settles, before you spend another week.
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What's Inside
Twelve channels. You get the three that fit.
- Local markets, fairs and stalls — where the buyer handles the thing before deciding
- Local community networks — neighbourhood groups, school and club circles, parish magazines
- Online marketplaces — the platform brings the traffic and takes a cut for it
- Discovery social — Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, where nobody is searching for you yet
- Search — the profile, the map listing and the pages that answer what buyers type
- Referral, asked for properly — a structured ask rather than hoping
- Partnerships and stockists — businesses that already hold your buyer's attention
- Direct approach — small numbers, named people, high specificity
- Professional networks — trade associations, chambers, sector communities
- Speaking and events — credibility with a room rather than one person at a time
- Your own list — the only channel no platform can take away from you
- Service directories — the ones where buyers arrive having already decided to spend
No lectures about consistency and showing up. Just the decisions — which three channels, in what order, and what to do on Monday morning — that separate a business people can find from one still posting into a room nobody is standing in.
Type one line about what you sell. Read your three. Start on Monday.
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