Segment and prosper

Barbara Elson, head of database and direct marketing at 23red, considers the history and growing disaffection for segmentation strategies, consumer-centric marketing and CRM.

Segment And Prosper

Barbara Elson 23red

It is generally recognised that marketing has evolved through a number of stages.

  • For a long time, businesses adopted a mass-marketing model, made possible by simple products, homogeneous (demographically classified) audiences and genuinely mass media.
  • More recently, segmentation and customer relationship marketing (CRM) have been the name of the game, necessitated by more complex products and services, hyper-competition, media fragmentation and consumer demand.
  • There is a feeling now that the pendulum...

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