Market
Segmentation and Consumer Profile
Telephone or face-to-face quantitative research to define market
segments and consumer profiles.
Major segmentation criteria:
- geographic, based on variables such as region, climate, population
density
- demographic, based on age, gender, ethnicity, income, education
- psychographic, based on values, attitudes, and life-styles
- behavioural, based on product usage, brand loyalty, benefit needs
and price sensitivity

Qualitative research, market tendencies and experience determine
which technique, or which combination of techniques is most suitable
in any given case.

Product Usage
Measures the frequency and intensity of product usage amongst the
target group.

Aceptación de Productos
Mide el grado de aceptación de un producto o un concepto
nuevo de producto entre su público objetivo.

Product Acceptance
Measures the degree of product or new concept acceptance amongst
the target group
Service Quality
Measures the degree of satisfaction amongst users of a private or
public service
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Brand Awareness
Measures the spontaneous or suggested awareness of a brand, company
or institution

Brand Image
Describes the image a certain target group has of a brand, company
or institution

Advertising Awareness
Determines the number of people who claim to have seen a certain
advertising campaign

Advertising Recall
Determines the number of people who can describe or recognise the
content of an advertising message

Mystery Shopping
A quality service audit carried our by qualified researchers who
act as clients in order to reproduce, as closely as possible, the
experience of a real client. This technique is used for determining
service quality indices, for checking procedures are correctly followed,
for determining the role of the salesman in the purchasing process,
for defining training needs and for process optimisation. |