{"id":106,"date":"2013-08-20T12:45:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T16:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notyourtypicalmaps.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2014-06-08T08:02:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T12:02:38","slug":"demographics-of-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notyourtypicalmaps.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"2013-08: Demographics of 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very quick post to get some thoughts down on paper.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I used to work in consumer marketing in banking. \u00a0One of the regular habits was\u00a0trying to understand our customer base and our\u00a0prospects. \u00a0For that, we relied heavily in segmentation. \u00a0Segmentation, is nothing more than trying to take a group of people (say all your customers) and try to group them or organize them into sub groups that allow you to understand how they behave or what their preferences may be. \u00a0In banking, we often use life stage market segmentation, as you can rationalize people\u2019s financial decisions and the opportunities to market to them through the stages of life that they go through.<\/span><\/div>\n
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For example, one could argue that many people go to college, and to go to college they will need to borrow money. \u00a0This is a great time to talk to them about student loans. \u00a0Therefore you could train your marketing segmentation to find all people in the age of 16-21 and who either are in college towns today, or live in areas that have college degrees (as there\u2019s an assumed correlation between presence of degrees and\u00a0likelihood to attend.<\/span><\/div>\n
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One can keep on coming with similar examples of why it makes sense to segment the population into logical sub-groupings, and trust me, the nefarious applications of this are not lost on me (google red-lining).<\/span><\/div>\n
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But this is a very antiquated model. \u00a0It\u2019s a model that\u2019s based on a) a lack of availability (either due to internal technical means, or simply lack of capture) of data on customers, b) antiquated concepts of human behavior, c) focused on\u00a0likely models (i.e. normal distribution of data,\u00a0\u201cwe have a high degree of confidence that this large group behaves the same\u201d), and d) not appreciative of the ways in mobile and digital technology have vastly changed how we behave.<\/span><\/div>\n
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So the next wave is the marketing to the individual\u2026 Marketing to 1, segmenting to 1 or demographics of 1. \u00a0What does this mean? \u00a0Basically that we need to develop mechanisms for marketing to the individual at the right point in time or place. \u00a0Therefore making your (the marketer\u2019s) connection to the individual extremely relevant and pertinent to the moment and\/or the place that you are in. \u00a0For example, a bank should start to think about prompting me with options for banking when it studies my behavior and sees when I (not the people in my age, income, geographic segment) use their services, and predict what I will I as an individual will need. It\u2019s that magical\u00a0moment of relevance that is so well captured in movies when the relationship between two protagonists is epitomized by one knowing the right details about the other, without that other having described them.<\/span><\/div>\n
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We are starting to see this develop with push towards geofencing, mobile advertisement, etc\u2026 \u00a0But how do organizations get themselves ready to develop marketing strategy based on this new data landscape, and more importantly how do they shift from their current antiquated models and data systems to these newer systems.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A very quick post to get some thoughts down on paper. \u00a0 I used to work in consumer marketing in banking. \u00a0One of the regular habits was\u00a0trying to understand our customer base and our\u00a0prospects. \u00a0For that, we relied heavily in segmentation. \u00a0Segmentation, is nothing more than trying to take a group of people (say all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59,24,82,64,78,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-changing-times","category-marketing","category-open-data","category-strategy","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yPko-1I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notyourtypicalmaps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notyourtypicalmaps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notyourtypicalmaps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notyourtypicalmaps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notyourtypicalmaps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notyourtypicalmaps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notyourtypicalmaps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notyourtypicalmaps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notyourtypicalmaps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}