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Importance of Segmentation & Customization of Target market

Every business has a specific target market, but even these targets are unique. Rather than send emails to everyone on your marketing lists, your company will benefit by using segmentation to tailor every email to the recipient’s needs. But what is segmentation, and why is it so important to customize your target market effectively?

What Is Segmentation?

Marketing segmentation is an email marketing strategy that separates the clients by specific factors. It groups recipients with corresponding characteristics, which increases the chance of emails and promotions being relevant to them.
You can use a single characteristic or multiple characteristics if you want to define a more accurate representation of your clients. This enhances customization and improves target marketing efforts.

How Does It Benefit You?


Segmentation Improves Client Retention

Client retention is one of the most important benefits of segmentation. Marketers dread email opt-outs, even though the average unsubscription rate is just 0.17%, demonstrating opt-outs do not happen as frequently as many expect
If you are experiencing a higher rate than usual, segmentation can help with this. Many people unsubscribe because they do not feel the content applies to them. Segmentation allows you to tailor email campaigns around what is relevant to those on your mailing list. Rather than receive a plethora of irrelevant emails, they only receive emails that are useful to them, meaning they are less likely to unsubscribe.

Segmentation Improves Your Campaigns

Targeting customers with relevant emails is more effective than trying to target as many people as possible. Most people do not thoroughly read every email they receive, but they are more likely to view the message if it looks like it appeals to them.
Use segmentation to define and design new campaigns that are more likely to experience a high conversion rate. Furthermore, you will save money on advertisement, allowing you to focus whatever is saved into later campaigns.

Segmentation Helps With Product Development

The more you use segmentation, the more you will learn about your client’s needs, which helps improve product development. You can use data and analytics to study which campaigns receive the highest conversions and use this information in your next product development.
Services with a high conversion rate should be prioritized over those with low conversion rates, as this offers the best ROI. however, you shouldn’t ignore the low conversion products entirely, but use the information gained from segmentation data to improve it and boost conversion later.

Segmentation Defines Your Focus

Segmentation makes it easier to define your focus and understand your customers or target market more effectively. This is beneficial when designing B2B email campaigns, as it allows you to pinpoint specific details that will appeal to the recipient.
A segmented approach is ideal when launching new products but also trying to improve responses on existing products. Instead of creating a generic message about your entire service range, you can design a carefully tailored email that is relevant to specific members for emailing the database.

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Get in touch with Sea Grass Marketers today to find out how you can improve your marketing campaigns by using a customized email database to target B2B clients in their respective niches.

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