Kx’s Four-Step Customer Segmentation Process
How To Level Up Your Customer Segmentation Strategy: Behavioral Segmentation
Kx‘s customer segmentation delves deeper than any traditional segmentation by looking at underlying behavioral and attitudinal factors that can replace the standard identifiers. Your team can improve your process by expanding on the factors you include in your segmentation beyond demographics and traditional commercial indicators. Below are some of the behavioral segmentation variables your team can include:
- Attitudes: These variables influence customers’ perception of products and their receptiveness to trying out a new product
- Roles and level of influence: Customers’ roles can impact drivers of purchase or use, and prioritizations of these drivers, based on different roles/responsibilities and experiences of the user/purchasers
- Experience and situational context: Analyzing these factors can showcase different unmet needs based on the type of user and provide context into what healthcare companies can do to drive increased adoption/purchase
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Developing Customer Segments With Sales Teams In Mind
While customer segments are a vital marketing tool, focusing on behavioral segmentation allows your sales team to provide a more personalized experience. Throughout this process, marketing teams must ensure that each segment is:
- Specific: the segments are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive, and each customer can only fit in one segment
- Meaningful: apparent differences exist among segments, and these differences are significant drivers of behavior and preferences
- Actionable: markers for different segments support easy identification and targeting for therapy development teams
Creating digestible segments specifically for the sales funnel empowers the sales team to better secure business.
Kx‘s Four–Step Approach For Segment Profiles
Our experts uniquely leverage these variables to identify accounts that give the biggest share of wallet. Kx conducts the segmentation through three steps:
- Determine segmentation goals: Kx works with organizations on clarifying their goals and mapping their segments to match these goals, including identifying the segments that are most likely to drive profit and have the most significant lifetime value
- Identify the markers for distinct segments : Defining key demographics is critical for the success of the segmentation process as it dictates the approach of any go-to-market strategy. Our experts start with traditional indicators and slowly work through the in-depth behavioral indicators, identifying the deep and nuanced permutations within the target base
- Develop and quantify segment profiles or archetypes: When Kx works with organizations on customer segmentation, our team builds out the different segment profiles, or “archetypes“ of customers. Our team performs in-depth qualitative research to understand the drivers of high product affinity within each segment, giving your sales team insights they need to message to their targets effectively. After setting the boundaries, quantifying each segment’s size allows your team to gauge which segments are the highest value for your team, and provide the most significant growth opportunities. To do so, we conduct quant research and K-clustering to identify combinations of variables that statistically show segments
- Implementation: Perhaps the most challenging aspect of the implementation process is where the tie between marketing and sales matters most. The cardinal implementation rule for marketing teams is that all archetypes rolled out must be unique. With that in mind, the fewer archetypes, the better the sales team’s result as they can customize their approach and connect more effectively with their targets. Our team is skilled at designing tailored strategies for implementation and can support your team through the procedure
How Kx Can Help
With product planning and launch strategy expertise, Kx Advisors can guide your team through customer segmentation and targeting. Our team of healthcare experts will help you evaluate your base, identify your customer segments, effectively appeal to your ideal customer, and position your organization for long-term success.