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Among marketers there is always this suspicion that there is not “one” customer but that there are different “kind of animals” that need to be treated differently. A though that is very powerful. But it turns out its is a hard nut to crack to make it work.

I once work as a marketing director for a packaging company and global headquarters had hired McKinsey to introduced a segmentation. The resulting five core segments made perfect sense. Still it lack everything a good segmentation needs to have, like a proof for distinct needs or a mode to access and service the customers differently.

My team and I later developed a segmentation that worked much better based on the principle I will describe here. Bear with me to see what we found.