psychographics
Communications
Business
Marketing
(noun)
the science of using psychology and demographics to better understand consumers
Examples of psychographics in the following topics:
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Target Market Characteristics
- The different characteristics of a target market are geographic, demographic, psychographic, behavioral, and product related.
- The different characteristics of a target market are geographic, demographic, psychographic, behavioral, and product related.
- A psychographic target market would be a market that has similar attitudes, values, or lifestyle.
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Overall Psychology of Your Audience: Values, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Needs
- Use psychographics of values, needs, attitudes, and beliefs to develop an audience profile and to tailor the speech's specific message.
- The demographics of the audience gives the speaker one type of picture based on variables such as age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, culture, race, and ethnicity; however, there is another equally important picture based on the overall psychological make-up of the audience, or the psychographics of the audience.
- Psychographics can be used to describe and develop a profile of the individuals in a given audience.
- Speakers can also use psychographics to select an audience that meets a certain profile, and then tailor a message specifically to that profile.
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The Target Market
- Psychographic – Compared to the previous two, this is a bit more complex.
- Psychographic targeting revolves around attitudes, religion, lifestyle, and values.
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Developing a Market Segmentation
- In psychographic segmentation, consumers are divided according to their lifestyle, personality, values, and social class.
- Foreigners within the same demographic group can exhibit very different psychographic profiles.
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Social Behavior of Consumers
- However, consumer behavior is also influenced by internal conditions such as demographics, psychographics (lifestyle), personality, motivation, knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings.
- Similarly, psychographics are often used that offer insight into the lifestyle and personality traits of buyers.
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Marketing Data Types
- Psychographics is the science of using psychology and demographics to better understand consumers.
- Psychographic segmentation: consumer are divided according to their lifestyle, personality, values.
- Aliens within the same demographic group can exhibit very different psychographic profiles.Market segmenting is dividing the market into groups of individual markets with similar wants or needs that a company divides into distinct groups which have distinct needs, wants, behavior or which might want different products & services.
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Motivation
- Internal conditions: demographics, psychographics (lifestyle), personality motivation, knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings
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Identifying the Target Market
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Understanding The Consumer + The Planning Process
- Psychographic characteristics – Consumer preferences, values, and feelings that motivate their choices, behaviors, and habits.
- Even though human beings are diverse and every individual is unique, we can actually classify them, with relative accuracy, by segmenting people into demographic and psychographic categories.
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Ansoff Opportunity Matrix
- New users can be defined as: new geographic, demographic, institutional, or psychographic segments.