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How to find five leads by Monday

An audience is only useful if you can find five of its members in an hour. Here's how to describe one so you can.

"Small businesses" is not an audience. You can't find five of them by Monday, because you don't know where to look.

Describe the person, not the market

A good audience names a role, a company size and a situation: maintenance leads at factories with 20–100 staff that run their own machines. Now you know which job titles to search for.

Keep a research column

New leads start in Research. Add a line on why each one made the list. If you can't write that line, they probably don't belong in this test.

Stop at five

The quota is a ceiling as much as a floor. Five good leads beat twenty rushed ones, and you'll pick five more next week.

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