“Lifestyle and psychographic segmentations are very complex to understand and implement. Companies make heavy investments in consumer research to identify such segments, their behavior, their potential etc. Despite all the hard work there is always a chance that such segmentation strategies might fail. On the other hand, demographic segmentation id much simpler, cost effective and easy to implement, still marketers prefer the former one...” What are your views on the above statement? Discuss in detail.

“Lifestyle and psychographic segmentations are very complex to understand and implement. Companies make heavy investments in consumer research to identify such segments, their behavior, their potential etc. Despite all the hard work there is always a chance that such segmentation strategies might fail. On the other hand, demographic segmentation id much simpler, cost effective and easy to implement, still marketers prefer the former one...” What are your views on the above statement? Discuss in detail.

Contemporary Marketing

18th Edition

ISBN:9780357033777

Author:Louis E. Boone, David L. Kurtz

Publisher:Louis E. Boone, David L. Kurtz

Chapter9: Market Segmentation, Targeting, And Positioning

Section9.8: Positioning Strategies And Value Propositions

Problem 1LO

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