Business Comp 1 - Market Segmentation

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1. What is the drawback of psychographic segmentation?

  • People/consumers can try to defy consumption patterns, e.g. a low income teenager buying a Burberry bag.
  • Difficult to collect data and if they do it is very expensive.
  • Consumer tastes are becoming more uniform accross geographic boundaries.
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2. What does Demographically mean?

  • How a consumer acts, e.g. whether they repetitive purchase, impulsive buy or want high quality products.
  • The study of population. Splits people up into different groups with similar characteristics, e.g. age, gender, social class, income.
  • Based on a persons lifestyle and personality
  • Splitting people up depending on where they live.

3. What does Psychographic segmentation mean?

  • Splitting people up depending on where they live.
  • The study of population. Splits people up into different groups with similar characteristics, e.g. age, gender, social class, income.
  • Based on a persons lifestyle and personality
  • How a consumer acts, e.g. whether they repetitive purchase, impulsive buy or want high quality products.

4. What is the drawback for behavioural segmentation?

  • On its own it may fail to caputure a target market for the business.
  • Hard to gain data
  • People/consumers can try to defy consumption patterns, e.g. a low income teenager buying a Burberry bag.

5. What are the 4 different types of sub groups which consumers are segmented?

  • Geographically, Micrographic, Psychographic and Demographically
  • Geographically, Demographically, Psychographic and Behavioural
  • Demographically, Geographically, Photographic and Behavioural
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