<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/jimcathcart.gif" width="132" height="156" alt="Jim Cathcart" class="alignleft size-medium" />I think everybody needs to know &#8220;who is the best customer for me?&#8221; Here&#8217;s how you can generate a description of that individual.</p>
<p>List five of your best current customers. After you have them listed, describe as many characteristics of each one as you can. How do they do business; how do they think; where did they go to school; what information sources do they turn to; what level of financial success are they experiencing; how many different locations are they operating from?</p>
<p>Also note what resource they came from. Were they a referral? Did they come from a response to advertising or direct mail, or what? <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2019/08/identifying-ideal-customers-jim-cathcart/" title="Permanent Link: Identifying Ideal Customers By Jim Cathcart" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":3450,"date":"2019-08-17T08:35:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T13:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2020-12-17T17:46:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:46:20","slug":"identifying-ideal-customers-jim-cathcart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2019\/08\/identifying-ideal-customers-jim-cathcart\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying Ideal Customers By Jim Cathcart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/jimcathcart.gif\" width=\"132\" height=\"156\" alt=\"Jim Cathcart\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/>I think everybody needs to know &#8220;who is the best customer for me?&#8221; Here&#8217;s how you can generate a description of that individual.<\/p>\n<p>List five of your best current customers. After you have them listed, describe as many characteristics of each one as you can. How do they do business; how do they think; where did they go to school; what information sources do they turn to; what level of financial success are they experiencing; how many different locations are they operating from?<\/p>\n<p>Also note what resource they came from. Were they a referral? Did they come from a response to advertising or direct mail, or what? <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2019\/08\/identifying-ideal-customers-jim-cathcart\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Identifying Ideal Customers By Jim Cathcart\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}