Market Segmentation: Market Fragmentation

Market segmentation and market fragmentation work together to enable you to separate your target market from a larger market and then to determine characteristics to help you market better. I consider them two steps in the same process.

Step 1: Market Fragmentation
Market fragmentation separates the market into parts so that you can then segment your target […]

Market Segmentation: Online Resources - Blog Posts

Market segmentation is occasionally covered on blogs that have nothing to do with market segmentation, but the blogger relates it to the topic of the blog. Thus, resources in this post are separate blog posts where you can find additional information on market segmentation.

I found these posts by typing in market segmentation in Bloglines and […]

Market Segmentation: Book Resources

For this resource list of market segmentation books, I searched Amazon, Google and Clickbank, but found few except through Amazon. I will continue to add good books covering market segmentation to this page after I post it. Prices were accurate at the time of this post, but please note that Amazon prices change often.

Blue Ocean […]

Market Segmentation: Online Resources - Web Site Pages

For this market segmentation resource list of Web site pages, I did a search through Google for “market segmentation” and then viewed every entry on the first five pages.
I have included only the sources that I believe provide good information. I eliminated those that were merely advertisements for marketing agencies, that appeared to […]

Definition of Market Segmentation And Related Terms

The definition of market segmentation isn’t consistent across the industry. For instance, my definition of market segmentation and many related terms slightly differently from many marketers. That’s because I believe their terms are confusing and, what we researchers call, confounded. A confounded term is one that represents two different concepts.
The problem with confounded terms […]