How to target ideal buyers instead of sole traders
The best way to reach your target audience is to filter potential buyers by company size before reaching out. Otherwise, sellers waste effort trying to sell services to sole traders rather than the larger teams that actually make up their ideal customers.
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“whats the best way to target audience and potential buyers?”source ↗
“I'm try to sell my service to appliance repair companies but finding most of them are sole traders which isn't my ideal customer”source ↗
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