Marketing to Millennials For Dummies. Padveen Corey

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      ❯❯ Age: The first definition of Millennial consumers has to do with age range. Use this definition when discussing data about the consumers. Demographers, sociologists, social anthropologists, and marketers use age to conduct studies and collect data. (Most hard data collected applies age restrictions to this group.)

      ❯❯ Interests and behaviors: The second definition for the Millennial consumer is much more broad. Instead of focusing on age range data, you need to turn your attention to interests and behaviors. In these audience segments, the definition of Millennial extends far beyond age restrictions. Here, you look at like-minded consumers that fit a series of behavioral criteria. You can broadly define this category of Millennials as being tech-savvy, price-sensitive consumers who place their trust in peers and experts over brands. They digest information at a rapid rate and look for tailored, personalized brand experiences. Brand familiarity is less important to these consumers than relationships. When they form these relationships, they’re fiercely loyal.

      ❯❯ Start with Facebook. The majority of online Millennials say they are active on Facebook. This means that you’re almost certain to find some of your Millennial audience on Facebook. Despite what marketers and news outlets have said, Facebook is far from being irrelevant to Millennials. In fact, Facebook and its products have become so commonplace that Millennials don’t even realize how inextricably linked to it they are. Facebook is a great place to begin the process of analyzing your audience.

      ❯❯ Match email lists before building strategies. Before you begin building a strategy for a particular channel, you should either run an email match audience analysis or extract data using an ad platform. This step will help you determine whether a channel is worth investing in for the purpose of acquiring and retaining Millennial consumers.

      ❯❯ Identify top interests in your audience analysis. When conducting your audience analysis, you should pay close attention to topics of specific interest to Millennials. Certain content makes some media more attractive for investment than others. (For more details on this type of analysis and the types of content most effectively used on certain media, check out Chapters 5 and 6.)

      ❯❯ Evaluate content requirements and access. If your brand isn’t built for specific channels like Instagram (https://instagram.com) or Snapchat (https://snapchat.com), which are predominantly visual and entirely mobile, then making the investment to use them may not be worth it.