ClarityCharter Glass Mountains

Worksheet

Your Audience

Glass Mountains

Who are you writing for?

When you are writing consider a new starter to your business, or a new external partner. Keep language as jargon free as possible. Feel free to share only the business information you feel appropriate - with external partners, you can always ask them to sign an NDA.

Who are your key audiences?

This worksheet captures your organisation’s key audiences in detail.

Think about each audience at the point they are deciding whether to take the next useful step with you. They may be a prospective customer, existing customer, partner, funder, stakeholder, member, or another group you need to serve well.

Clear audience definition is essential because it underpins decisions around messaging, content, campaigns, and how your organisation presents itself.

These definitions are reused. An offering or a website points at the audience you describe here rather than repeating it, so a change made once shows up everywhere.

You can connect audiences to offerings later

For now, describe the people or groups clearly. Once Your Offering has been started, you can link each offering to the audiences it serves, and those links will appear here.

Start with the audience you know best

Three questions make an audience useful to a reader: who they are, what they are trying to achieve, and what they weigh up when deciding. Two more add depth when you have it.

Needed Who are they?
Needed Goals and outcomes
Needed What matters most to them?
Optional Concerns or hesitations
Optional How do they initially engage with you?

Initials are used where space is tight. Priority controls ordering only.

Who are they?

Describe this audience in plain terms. You might include their role, type of organisation, level of knowledge, situation, or relationship to you. Keep this focused on who they are, not what they need from your website.

Goals and outcomes

What are they trying to achieve? This might be a practical task, a decision they need to make, a problem they need to solve, or an outcome they are responsible for.

What matters most to them?

What does this audience care about when they are deciding whether to trust, contact, buy from, work with, recommend, or continue with you? Think about priorities such as confidence, credibility, speed, price, expertise, convenience, compliance, evidence, relationship, or reduced risk.

Concerns or hesitations

What might make this audience pause, worry, delay, compare you with others, or decide not to act? This could include practical barriers, unanswered questions, risk, budget, timing, trust, internal approval, or previous experience.

How do they initially engage with you?

How do they usually first become aware of you or make contact? For example: search, referral, recommendation, tender, social media, event, phone call, email, enquiry form, or an existing relationship.

Add as many as you have. There is no limit, and you can stop whenever you like.

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