Using market segmentation enables you to create your own target market profiles.

Create Your Own
Target Market Profiles

My matrix market segmentation process uses matrices to visually separate market segments so you can easily see characteristics that are repeated across segments.

Then my market segmentation process utilizes secondary research about different market segments and combines all relevant segments into target market profiles.

The process is simple and relatively quick to use with the secondary research provided in my e-book: Know ‘em Sell ‘em: How To Discover The Best Appeals for Your Target Market. To read more about my e-book, click on the link in this paragraph.

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Target Market Profiles

StrategicMarketSegmentation.com also offers completed individual target market profiles. Some of these target market profiles are actually in-depth looks at a particular market segment. For instance, all four adult generations in America today are included as individual profiles.

Other profiles use the matrix market segmentation process to include characteristics across segments and to provide information on the target market not available elsewhere through secondary research.

To read more about any of these target market profiles, just click on the title below:

1. Targeting the WWII Generation,
2. Segmenting Baby Boomers,
3. Targeting Generation X,
5. Targeting Generation Y,
4. Targeting the Upper (Elite) Class,
5. Targeting the Middle Class,
6. Targeting the Working Class,
7. Targeting African Americans,
8. Targeting Asian Americans,
9. Targeting Hispanic Americans,
10. Targeting Native Americans,
11. Targeting Arab Americans,
13. Targeting College Students,
14. Targeting University Faculty,
15. Targeting Professional Boomer Women,
16. Targeting Mid-Life Men,
17. Targeting CEO’s,
18. Targeting Investors,
19. Targeting Retirees.

Read more about target markets here – Target Market: Eight Questions To Ask About Yours, 1-4

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When you extend your marketing product life cycle, you increase your profits. The longer life you infuse into each stage of your marketing product life cycle, the more money you make.

If you are a small business owner that extra profit can mean the difference in success or failure, a good business or a great one.

The first two stages breathe the most life into your profit potential and are the focus of this article.

Marketing Product Life Cycle:
Introduction or Birth Stage

The introduction stage of your marketing product life cycle represents the birth of your new product, with marketing giving it life. Like a child your marketing in this stage requires your time and money without giving much back.

You have to market hard to nurture your baby product. You show it off and emphasize how it benefits potential customers to get its life off to a good start.

Your primary marketing goal at this stage is to build demand for your baby product and to recoup your research and development costs. But because your product is so young, it is not popular yet. Demand is low, while prices are usually at their highest.

But you may want to keep prices low to encourage more people to discover your new product. Keeping prices low and offering promotions and incentives to attract initial customers helps you to attract your new product’s greatest admirers and potential buyers. It separates them from everybody else and determines to whom you should direct your marketing birth announcements.

Write and time your birth announcement. Marketing to your target market for your new product will reap far more profits than if you direct your announcements to everyone.

After you have christened and promoted your baby product to the world, it’s time to nurture its growth through childhood with a marketing growth spurt.

You can read more about birthing your product at the page linked below:

Ten Steps To Create A Strategic Marketing Plan For A New Product Part 1

Marketing Product Life Cycle:
Growth or Child Stage

As your marketing grows, you must continue to win more customers, retailers, and distribution avenues.

You must assure that your target market gets to know and like your new product. Sustained marketing growth assures that you sell more, and your profits increase.

Your marketing goal at this stage is to introduce your child product to as many target market members as possible.

Market segmentation will aid you in growing your product through this stage of the marketing product life cycle successfully by:

• discovering more target markets for the product,
• differentiating potential retail partners to determine those providing the best fit with your product, and
• determining the best geographic areas for new growth, and the best distributors to reach those areas.

Marketing Product Life Cycle:
Conclusion

Although this article and many marketing experts present the marketing product life cycle as though it is definite and concrete, in reality products move through the stages differently just as children mature differently.

But unlike a child, you want your product to spend as much time as possible in the growth and following stages.

Market segmentation can extend the marketing product life cycle and the total life of your product.

Read more about how to extend your product life stages through the Mature Stage and Decline Stage

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Business promotions and marketing ideas sometimes elude small business owners, who are busy running and operating their businesses. This two-part article provides seven business promotions and marketing ideas to help small business owners. The first three are covered in part 1.

The seven business promotions and marketing ideas are:

1. News Releases
2. Special Events
3. Networking
4. Flyers
5. Brochures
6. Direct Mail
7. Free and Inexpensive Ads

Business Promotions
and Marketing Ideas:
News Releases

Writing and publishing news releases is the first of these business promotions and marketing ideas.

Writing the release is the easy part. Publishing requires making the news release newsworthy. For this first of the seven business promotions and marketing ideas, the trick is to write a release that has real news value instead of one just bragging about the business.

Six types of news releases with news value 1) provide information to aid the media audience to do something better, 2) provide a local angle to a national or state news story, 3) ties to a holiday or special event, 4) announces a coming event, 5) provides information that is odd or amusing, 6) provides research that affect the audience.

Business Promotions
and Marketing Ideas:
Special Events

Special events provide a second of the seven business promotions and marketing ideas.

Special events are newsworthy and provide opportunities to get news coverage as well as opportunities to attract potential customers, but they require planning, preparing, coordinating, delegating and the time to do them all well.

For this reason, it’s best for a small business owner to work with other businesses or non-profit organizations, who can share the workload. For this one of the seven business promotions and marketing ideas to work well, it’s also vital that someone with special events experience coordinate the special event.

Business Promotions
and Marketing Ideas:
Networking

Networking provides the seventh of the seven business promotions and marketing ideas.

Networking is forming relationships with people within the small business owner’s target market, as well as other business owners, who may be candidates for cooperative promotions and marketing activities.

This requires that small business owners belong to organizations that their target markets and their potential business collaborators do. It requires attending the events that these people attend, participating in their discussions, and nurturing relationships with them.

For example, a local small business owner will want to join the local Chamber of Commerce. If the small business owner’s target market members go to church, the small business owner should go to church. If the target market is young families with school age children, the small business owner should participate in the Parent Teacher Association.

To get to part 2 of this two-part series, click the link below:

7 Business Promotions And Marketing Ideas, Part 2

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Market segmentation reveals the best appeals for marketing to people in your target market.

Once you know your target market’s age, occupation, income, gender and race, you’ll have acquired a vast number of characteristics to use in your market segmentation and to discover your best target market appeals.

Using my matrix market segmentation process, you put these characteristics into a matrix to reveal the characteristics that are most repeated across segments. The four or five characteristics most repeated provide your best target market appeals.

However, my matrix market segmentation process isn’t limited to target market appeals, it also enables you to determine the best marketing messages and design all of your marketing activities and messages around the appeals.

If you need help getting information about your target market, I’ve researched 19 target market profiles. One may be just what you’re looking for.

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Market segmentation can help you learn about your target market?

Market segmentation provides a way to identify your target market with demographic (factual) information so you can infer other information from the demographics that is more helpful in reaching and selling to your target market.

Gather Demographics
On Your Target Market

Demographics like age, education level, occupation, gender, and race, each provide personality and behavioral characteristics to use in the market segmentation matrix for your target market.

The more of these characteristics that you know about your target market, the better my matrix market segmentation process works. So get as many demographics for your target market as you can.

Even if this takes a little research, it will pay off by preparing you to market better to target market members and to sell more products and services by knowing how to best influence their buying decisions.

To illustrate this step using my matrix market segmentation process, suppose you are marketing a book for mid life professional men to help them improve their careers. You can use demographics like age, education, occupation, and social class in your market segmentation.

Infer Other Information
From Demographics

Knowing that they are in mid life provides you with generation and life stage psychographics. Knowing that they are professionals provides education and occupation psychographics that enable you to determine social class and other characteristics.

With my matrix market segmentation process, this information enables you to place your target market into market segments, and then look for shared characteristics across the segments to reveal the best appeals for your target market.

The characteristics repeated most across the most segments will provide the best appeals for your target market.

To use my matrix market segmentation process, you will need the 17 matrices that come with my e-book, Know ‘em Sell ‘em: How To Discover The Best Appeals for Your Target Market. The matrices make market segmentation quick and easy.

You can also access more about target markets through the following link:
Market Segmentation: Target Market Appeals

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