Talk:Target market/Archives/2017

Include in market segmentation

A target market is a particular market segment at which an organization had decided to aim its sales and marketing efforts. The current Wikipedia definition of "market segmentation" appears to conform to Wikipedia standards and does a good job of defining marketing segments (of which target markets are a subset). In fact, the "market segmentations" and "examples" sections of this entry pertain to all market segments and are better-addressed in Wikipedia's definition of "market segmentation" than they are here. As for the other sections, if other reviewers deem them relevant, they can move with the overall definition. I can check back and move the section unless other reviewers object.

PS. I agree with a previous reviewer that target audience and target market are not the same for the reason he/she cites.

-- Bbarbara (talk) 21:37, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Target marketing can be used for many different fields in business. Marking in general is considerable to how you can sell a product to a certain type of people, in categories such as what kind of people they are. Don't you remeber when you were in high school and you had different crowds its the same thing, But what group do you want to deal with or sell to. How could you market to one if you were a part of them, research them!!

-- DJ ricky of Ft

There is a long rambling paragraph in the Market segmentation section that is so poorly written it hurts. I tried to see if it was plagiarized or paraphrased/translated from a non-English source, but couldn't find a specific entry (though I did find a Vietnamese student essay site that was nearly word for word). It's anyway full of runon sentences and doesn't add much to the discussion. I recommend deleting the paragraph since the following section that describes characteristics (Demographics, Psychographics, etc) flows well from the previous billeted list. I'd delete it myself, but since it is not my area of expertise would like someone with more SME on marketing to review. Nwhysel (talk) 13:06, 25 April 2017 (UTC) Nwhysel (talk) 13:06, 25 April 2017 (UTC)