Then, apply it to each potential customer or audience group: how could it fit?
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But some were frankly weird: Whether an officer of the group will run for public office in the future, or what the roles were of audience members in group programs.
Mr. STEPHEN LIAS (Texas Shakespeare Festival): If you're going to do a gimmick getting an audience that appreciates a certain popular group's style to come to see Shakespeare, I think it's a clever idea, even if it is a gimmick.
Tony Blair spoke to the pro-EU Business for New Europe' group, but his intended audience was far wider.
"Our collaboration with Verizon highlights the speed at which Serve is evolving to reach a wide audience, " said Dan Schulman, group president, Enterprise Growth, American Express.
And most important of all, in terms of the health of British public life, a global audience witnessed a small cross-party group of Britain's elected representatives doing what they should have been doing for the last 30 years: holding the press, and Murdoch in particular, accountable for their actions rather than scurrying away like a bunch of frightened rabbits in the glare of News Corp.
The group in attendance was a general audience, so I guess the time spent in these areas was necessary.
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"Our audience is a creative, design-focused group, age 18 and up, " explains Bryony Bouyer, who oversees the licensing of Blythe for Hasbro.
They told the audience they had missed being together as a group.
Just as an example, note musical sketch from 2009 where comedy group Axis of Awesome amaze their audience by playing 36 modern pop songs over the same four-chord structure, in one long sequence.
Two seasons ago, Elton John, who had put in an appearance on the show, called the audience racist during a period in which a group of talented black singers faired poorly in the voting.
It has also given Bradley the idea for another business: He's selling access to and information about Sikko's audience--the median age of the group, mostly male, is 23--to technology and packaged-goods companies eager to understand (and sell more to) such folks.
Mr. COYNE: I beg the audience to just play along and as a group, we can all do this thing that really makes for a marvelous moment and we hope at a Flaming Lips show that we've just said, whatever you do in this room, you can do it here.
"Today" trails its rival in the 25-54 age group, which it considers the core audience, by a smaller amount.
The young audience grew excited during small parts of the rap group's set, and Ghostface Killah, Method Man, RZA, Raekwon and the other members seemed to notice.
You can imagine that I had a highly engaged audience as this was a singular goal for the entire group.
However, England also face tough matches against Ukraine and Belarus - and there were gasps in the audience at Durban's International Convention Centre as the group was completed.
By contrast, as University of Texas law professor Lynn Baker prepared to begin her scheduled talk on "ethical and liability issues in group litigation, " 30% of the audience headed for the ballroom exit.
Her work with the group, she said while some in the audience teared up, helped move her beyond the hopelessness she long felt about being unable to persuade her homeless brother to accept her help.
Over the years we have had an amazing group of experts in various fields offer advice to our audience.
What is yet to be proven is whether these games will meet consumer expectations, become profitable, become successful beyond the tiny group of Kickstarter-happy funders and reach a larger audience.
"This is a very skeptical audience, " said Rachel Klein of Enroll America, a nonprofit group set up by the founding members of Families USA, a group that campaigned for the law's passage.
The group learned to frame its funding conversation in terms that its audience would care the most about.
If you want to target a narrow audience, find some late-night cable show that appeals to that group NOT the Super Bowl.
It said the target audience for the crisps was the 18-34-year-old age group.
The more you know about the audience, then you can make assumptions about the predominant personality style of the group.
He hasn't got very far with that effort, although at the group's meeting last March he got polite nods from an audience of 80-odd colleagues.
Random International, the contemporary art group behind the show, is known for experimental works that often require audience participation.
"You get a sense of why we're so hopeful about this tool, " Mr. Kelly told the audience, which was mostly members of the New York City Police Foundation, a nonprofit group that raises money for the department.
Each group works hard to support 1, 000 content creators eager to attract a loyal audience.
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