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Using demographics, a marketing manager can try to grasp what certain people think and what they are willing to buy. [1] By understanding how various characteristics of the population reflect their tastes, demographic marketers get an idea of the probability of the sales returns of a launched product in a given area.
A demographic profile is a form of demographic analysis in which information is gathered about a group to better understand the group's composition or behaviors for the purpose of providing more relevant services. In business, a demographic profile is usually used to increase marketing efficiency.
Demographic targeting is a form of behavioral advertising in which advertisers target online advertisements at consumers based on demographic information. [1]They are able to achieve this by using existing information from sources such as browser history, previous searches as well as information provided by the users themselves to create demographic profiles of consumers.
[3] The main dimensions of the VALS framework are resources (the vertical dimension ) and primary motivation (the horizontal dimension ). The vertical dimension segments people based on the degree to which they are innovative and have resources such as income , education , self-confidence , intelligence , leadership skills, and energy.
Audience segmentation is a process of dividing people into homogeneous subgroups based upon defined criteria such as product usage, demographics, psychographics, communication behaviors and media use. [1] [2] Audience segmentation is used in commercial marketing so advertisers can
Firmographics (also known as emporographics or firm demographics) are sets of characteristics to segment prospect organizations. [1] What demographics are to people, firmographics are to organizations. However, Webster (2005) suggested that the term "firmographics" is a combination of demographics and geographics.
Psychographics is defined as "market research or statistics classifying population groups according to psychological variables" [1] The term psychographics is derived from the words "psychological" and "demographics" [2] Two common approaches to psychographics include analysis of consumers' activities, interests, and opinions (AIO variables), and values and lifestyles (VALS).
[3] [4] Researchers have reported a range of sizes of the LOHAS market segment. For example, Worldwatch Institute reported that the LOHAS market segment in the year 2006 was estimated at $300 billion, approximately 30% of the U.S. consumer market; [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and, a study by the Natural Marketing Institute showed that in 2007, 41 million ...