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Segmentation

Segmentation is a strategic tool for understanding and targeting audiences. It applies an analytical process to categorize customers into mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive segments that can then be prioritized according to strategic goals. The four most common segmentation approaches include demographic (firmographic for B2B), needs-based, behavioral and value-based segmentation.

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