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What You Need to Know About Segmentation

Harvard Business Review

The marketers of Clearblue Advanced Pregnancy Test, a product that can tell you if you’re one-week, two-weeks, or three-plus weeks pregnant, asked a couple of D-list celebrities to tweet out their positive tests back in 2013. How would you identify these two segments and market to them differently?

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If Your Mobile Strategy Can Win Here, It Can Win Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

If you''re marketing to women through social media, imagine your conversations mediated by a smartphone screen. According to a 2013 survey by Nielsen, "Nearly 60% of women use Facebook/access Facebook multiple times a day on their device/computer compared to approximately 45% of men." And these messages use strong market segmentation.

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Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?