part of creating a 4.2 Market Planning is to identify market segment, target to a market, and how your product falls in place compared to others

segmentation

  • market segments!
  • divide a market into smaller pieces based on age culture education, ethnicity family size gender geography income lifestyle profession religion social status etc.

demographic segmentation

  • based on statistical characteristics of a population
    • age, gender, family size, religion, ethnicity

geographic

  • based on location
  • globalization similar trends across the whole wide world

psychographic segmentation

  • personal values/personal choices (so lifestyle)

socioeconomic

  • i.e. premium plane tickets

target market

positioning