Is Something Rotten in Segmentation?
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Author Lawrence D. Gibson debunks the segmentation as a marketing concept because of several presumptuous fallacies. It is descriptive, not predictive, assumes homogeneity and competition-free segments, defines the wrong segment, and because the four practices used in segmentation are incorrect.
Publication Name: Marketing Research: A Magazine of Management & Applications
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1040-8460
Year: 2001
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There Is No Brand Segmentation
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Although previously, it was thought that different brands appeal to different kinds of people, now it is widely accepted that similar brands appeal to similar people. The question is not who buys the product but how many buy the product.
Publication Name: Marketing Research: A Magazine of Management & Applications
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1040-8460
Year: 2001
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My research in marketing: how it happened
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A marketing pioneer outlines his personal research in marketing over the last fifty years.
Publication Name: Marketing Research: A Magazine of Management & Applications
Subject: Business
ISSN: 1040-8460
Year: 2004
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