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Lumifer comments on We Should Introduce Ourselves Differently - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 19 May 2015 05:32:25AM 3 points [-]

A mass market written message would almost immediately turn off this site's core audience...

Maybe, but we don't have to stick to extremes and go from "math geek" directly to "used car salesman" :-)

Comment author: [deleted] 21 May 2015 05:41:34PM 0 points [-]

Then who exactly is your target audience?

One of the core ideas of effective marketing is that you craft a message that excites your target - and as a result, that that message will necessarily turn away others who are not in that target audience.

If we wanted to go mass market, then we should craft a landing page for that market.

If we wanted to go for math geeks, we should keep the site as it is.

If we wanted to attract neither, we could go to a middle ground.

Comment author: Lumifer 21 May 2015 05:58:20PM 0 points [-]

I like JMIV's suggestions here.