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The Family Life Cycle (FLC) concept was developed in the 1950s by sociologists and has been used in marketing in studies of consumer behavior and segmentation. This paper uses the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) of the 1980 Census of Population and Housing to...
- Jonah Otelsberg
- 2015
- Definition of Demographic Segmentation
- How to Get Demographic Data
- Demographic Segmentation Factors
- Problems with Demographic Segmentation
- Conclusion
This helps brands spend their advertising and marketing budget more efficiently. Instead of going after their entire market, they’re able to show relevant messagesto people more likely to care. Many analytics tools on the web will give you basic demographic information. Other segmentation methods such as psychographic and behavioral segmentationare...
You may not be able to get demographic information for every one of your customers or audience members. That’s alright. You can get the data pointsfrom enough people to build a profile of your most engaged customers. With that, you can choose the right social media platforms, create better marketing material, and grow your subscriber base more quic...
Some demographic information is more important than others. For example, if you’re selling premium online courses for photography, the gender of your audience isn’t as important as their age or income. They have to be able to afford your courses and age can give you an idea of their willingness to learn a new skill. Consider a brand like AweDeco, a...
Of course, because demographic segmentation focuses on factors that exclude actual behaviors, there are shortcomings.
Demographic segmentation is an important starting point to understand your market and their needs. With the right demographic information, you can create assumptions to test and refine your messaging. Over time, you’ll understand whether age, gender, income, education, or family makeup is the most important variable for your specific products and s...
Jan 14, 2020 · Marketers and academics have long been trying to develop effective segmentation models such as several versions of the family life cycle (FLC), which predicts behavior based on stages people are expected to sequentially experience during their lives.
- Randall Shannon, Thuckavadee Sthienrapapayut, George P. Moschis, Thorsten Teichert, Betul Balikciogl...
- 2020
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- Demographic Segmentation. Demographic segmentation uses categories such as age, education, gender, income, and household size to differentiate among markets.
- Geographic Segmentation. Geographic segmentation means segmenting markets by region of the country, city or county size, market density, or climate. Market density is the number of people or businesses within a certain area.
- Psychographic Segmentation. Race, income, occupation, and other demographic variables help in developing strategies but often do not paint the entire picture of consumer needs.
- Benefit Segmentation. Benefit segmentation is based on what a product will do rather than on consumer characteristics. For years Crest toothpaste was targeted toward consumers concerned with preventing cavities.
The concept of the family life cycle has proven to be a useful but incomplete tool for marketers. Significant changes in life-styles have created the necessity for altering and updating this concept. This article ex plores these changes and integrates them into new life cycle patterns. THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE REVISITED
- John Schlacter, Nabil Razzouk, Mark Mills
- 2016
Household life cycle has been widely used as a determinant of consumer behavior and a basis for market segmentation. However, there is considerable disagreement about how life stages should be defined and how households progress through these stages.
Learning Objectives. Understand and outline the ways in which markets are segmented. Explain why marketers use some segmentation bases versus others. Sellers can choose to pursue consumer markets, business-to-business (B2B) markets, or both.
