Segmentation Reveals Marketing’s Easiest Targets
Done well, market segmentation can do so much.
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Done well, market segmentation can do so much.
At the heart of everything that marketers do resides a notion so fundamental, so basic, it is the engine that makes the free market tick.
Marketers in both the US and UK report that their digital marketing spend has grown in the past couple of years. You can see that pronounced increase in social media, email, web content, and more online advertising efforts.
David Ogilvy famously said, “The trouble with market research is that people don’t think how they feel, they don’t say what they think and they don’t do what they say.” This skepticism towards claimed data is shared by most social psychologists.
The battle for consumers’ hearts, minds and wallets won’t be won in R&D labs.