Your business profitability goal is vital to your business’ success. If you commit to your business profitability goal in writing, your are far more likely to reach that goal than if you don’t.

You are in business to make a profit, aren’t you?. So I’m sure that you have a business profitability goal. Have you committed it to writing? Do you know how using market segmentation to identify and learn about your customers and target market enhances your ability to reach that goal?

Many business experts contend that profit is the reward for giving customers what they want for a price they are willing to pay. Of course, to make a profit, that price has to reap you more income than it costs you to produce, market and distribute it. This involves many business practices. Not the least of which is marketing.

Market Research

When you think of marketing, you may just think of tactics you can use like news releases, publications, special events, advertising and the like. But marketing that will help to reach your business profitability goal is based on research.

One of the most important types of marketing research is market segmentation because it provides you with information to identify your best target market. You have selected a target market haven’t you?

In order to reach you business profitability goal, you need to direct your marketing efforts to a specific target market and then learn everything possible about that target market to guide your marketing strategies and tactics. Market segmentation will enable you to discover the best marketing appeals for your target market.

Market Segmentation Improve Your Ability To:

1. reach your target market by revealing what media they use to get information,
2. create marketing messages that appeal directly to your target market members needs and desires,
3. position your business, products and services to attract your target market,
4. convert that interest into first-time sales,
5. persuade your first-time customers to buy from you again by building a positive relations with them.
6. to serve your customers so well that they think of you as a trusted friend.

If you think about it, the above six abilities are what determine your income, which in turn, determines half of your chances of reaching your business profitability goal. The other half deals with limiting your expenses.

Market Segmentation Save Expenses

Market segmentation also influences expenses involved in making sales. It enables you to identify a tight target market and to improve how you market to target market members. This saves you loads of money over trying to market to everybody, or wasting money on ineffective marketing tactics and messages.

Of course, you will still have expenses like product development, distribution, personnel, etc. But market segmentation can also save you money with these expenses.

For instance, by knowing your target market and what they really want and need, you avoid wasting money developing products that don’t have good profit potential. You also avoid costly features that aren’t important to your target market.

Market Segmentation Helps To Select The Best Distribution Method

Market segmentation also influences what distribution methods that you use to deliver your products to your customers. By knowing how they prefer to get products delivered, you can focus on that distribution method, fine tune it, and make it a distinguishing characteristic. Plus, you can often save money by using one distribution method consistently.

In conclusion, market segmentation can help you to reach your business profitability goal by helping you to get new and loyal repeat customers. This improves your income.

Market segmentation can also help you to reach your business profitability goal by providing information to make better spending decisions.

By improving both income and expenses, market segmentation enhances your ability to reach your business profitability goal.

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Posted 5-08-08: Market Segmentation And
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