What are the characteristics of psychographic market segment?
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Psychographic segmentation is a method used to group prospective, current or previous customers by their shared personality traits, beliefs, values, attitudes, interests, and lifestyles and other factors. These characteristics may be observable or not. Identifying these important factors can be a powerful way of marketing the same product or service to people from otherwise dramatically different demographics groups, geographies or other characteristics. Every prospect or client/customer has a different psychographic make up. Analyzing that make up and grouping similar characteristics together is the start of psychographic segmentation.
Why Use Psychographic Segmentation?
When your obvious groupings of target segments seem to have radically different needs and responses to your offerings and messaging, this is a major indicator it is a good time to look at psychographic segmentation. This method is a powerful way to market the same product to individuals who otherwise seem very heterogeneous. Many expert marketers say this approach will ultimately yield the greatest payoff, in many ways: purchase amount and frequency, lifetime value, loyalty, and more. Finally, once you've completed your segmentation, it will be easy to develop and execute against marketing personas – which basically brings each segment to life for everyone involved in crafting different parts of your marketing plan.
How Is Psychographic Segmentation Executed?
There are different ways to accomplish this objective, and it is really dependent on the size of your addressable market, your budget and your time horizon. Here are some common approaches:
Primary market research, mainly in the form of attitudinal surveys that are then analyzed via factor analysis by a statistician to find patterns and groupings. For this method, you will need to have a sense of where the differences or dichotomies may lie, so you can probe in those areas. This research may be followed up with a qualitative study to dig deeper into certain areas. Be aware that the competencies of your research/marketing agency can affect the outcome, reflecting the truism, "Your answers will only be as good as the questions you ask."
'Down-and-dirty' market research using some method such as Google Surveys. Again, you will need to have a sense of the dimensions or elements of difference. And you can just intuit the differences and test through an inexpensive digital means, or have a statistician conduct the more formal analysis. This is (obviously) even more subject to error, but for small budgets, it is probably better than a stab in the dark, in that it can be directionally correct.
Marketing artificial intelligence, can be seen as segmentation on steroids because of the solution's ability to rapidly test, learn and improve, mainly through predictive analysis and deep learning. In the not too distant future, we believe this method of 'marketing learning and optimization' will be seen as the formidable match to the digital marketing explosion of tactics and content. Finally, with this method you will be able to intelligently optimize the voluminous data produced through the millions of digital options possible given the multitude of channels, platforms and devices that may be part of your target segments' buying process.
In the end, whichever method you choose, you will want to make sure that your consulting firm or agency delivers a segmentation model that does the following:
You must be able to take action on the insights provided… so it must also be practical.
You must be able to clearly see the differences between the groupings. People should belong to one group or another, but not both.
The results should be reproducible even with a separate set of subjects, so it has more than a single time usage.
Why Use Psychographic Segmentation?
When your obvious groupings of target segments seem to have radically different needs and responses to your offerings and messaging, this is a major indicator it is a good time to look at psychographic segmentation. This method is a powerful way to market the same product to individuals who otherwise seem very heterogeneous. Many expert marketers say this approach will ultimately yield the greatest payoff, in many ways: purchase amount and frequency, lifetime value, loyalty, and more. Finally, once you've completed your segmentation, it will be easy to develop and execute against marketing personas – which basically brings each segment to life for everyone involved in crafting different parts of your marketing plan.
How Is Psychographic Segmentation Executed?
There are different ways to accomplish this objective, and it is really dependent on the size of your addressable market, your budget and your time horizon. Here are some common approaches:
Primary market research, mainly in the form of attitudinal surveys that are then analyzed via factor analysis by a statistician to find patterns and groupings. For this method, you will need to have a sense of where the differences or dichotomies may lie, so you can probe in those areas. This research may be followed up with a qualitative study to dig deeper into certain areas. Be aware that the competencies of your research/marketing agency can affect the outcome, reflecting the truism, "Your answers will only be as good as the questions you ask."
'Down-and-dirty' market research using some method such as Google Surveys. Again, you will need to have a sense of the dimensions or elements of difference. And you can just intuit the differences and test through an inexpensive digital means, or have a statistician conduct the more formal analysis. This is (obviously) even more subject to error, but for small budgets, it is probably better than a stab in the dark, in that it can be directionally correct.
Marketing artificial intelligence, can be seen as segmentation on steroids because of the solution's ability to rapidly test, learn and improve, mainly through predictive analysis and deep learning. In the not too distant future, we believe this method of 'marketing learning and optimization' will be seen as the formidable match to the digital marketing explosion of tactics and content. Finally, with this method you will be able to intelligently optimize the voluminous data produced through the millions of digital options possible given the multitude of channels, platforms and devices that may be part of your target segments' buying process.
In the end, whichever method you choose, you will want to make sure that your consulting firm or agency delivers a segmentation model that does the following:
You must be able to take action on the insights provided… so it must also be practical.
You must be able to clearly see the differences between the groupings. People should belong to one group or another, but not both.
The results should be reproducible even with a separate set of subjects, so it has more than a single time usage.
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