WHAT WE OFFER
Audience segmentation is the process of categorising a population into groups that share things in common, and then deciding which to engage. To do it well takes three things.
High quality data
Rigorous analysis
Like all research, audience segmentation should be a process of exploration and learning, not of entrenching past assumptions. Our expert analysts use a range of advanced techniques including cluster modelling, enabling true discovery of how attitudinal and behavioural groups are formed in any given population.
Strategic thinking
Good audience segmentation is more than a data analysis exercise – it’s a consultative process that will shape and guide your strategy. Your project will be led by one of our senior consultants, supported by a team of data analysts, working with you to test hypotheses and discover audiences most closely aligned to your strategic purpose.
WHAT WE DELIVER
At the end of your segmentation project we’ll give you everything you need to put audiences at the heart of your strategy.
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Audience profiles/pen portraits.
A report describing each of your audience segments, with thoughtfully crafted narrative and infographics. Beautifully designed in your branding, your report will combine summary descriptions with detailed content, so you can dive in as deep as you like. If you want to go to town, we can also produce posters, pocketbooks, or films – anything to bring your segmentation to life and communicate it to colleagues and partners.
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Full data tables.
You might prefer poring over data in spreadsheets to reading audience profiles, so we’ll also provide comprehensive data tables that include every data point in the segmentation, organised by topic and colour coded to make them easy to interpret. You’ll find data tables especially useful when you need to get into the detail, for example when you’re media planning, or analysing attitudes to your brand or your cause.
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Project report.
Your project report will give context to your segmentation and help you explain it to others. It will detail why the segmentation was developed, describe the methodology, zoom in on key insights, and provide actionable recommendations on how to engage each audience. This might include insight on how to frame your messages, the motivations your audiences share in common, and where the growth opportunities are.
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Golden questions and algorithm.
For your segmentation to be usable in the future, you will need the tools to recreate it again and again in new surveys, with either the external ‘market’, or the people on your own database. To enable this, we’ll give you a simplified algorithm and the ‘golden’ questions (the smallest possible number of questions) required to produce the segmentation. Sound complicated? It’s not, we promise, and we’ll explain everything.
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Embedding your segmentation.
Becoming audience centred often means finding new ways of working, designing new customer journeys, and redeveloping products, services and messages. Most major non-profits are on this journey right now and it’s one best taken step by step. Your segmentation project will wrap up with a working meeting to assess the changes you need to make. Or see our strategy services if you need something more comprehensive.
HOW WE WORK
Our data standards and ethics.
Eden Stanley is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office and is a member of the Market Research Society. We are fully compliant with data protection regulations, and bound by industry best practices, both in letter and spirit.
Most of our audience segmentation work is concerned with defining attitudinal and behavioural groups in the population, using anonymised data which we supply in aggregated form to our clients who have no means of identifying individuals.
When we do work with personal data, for example segmenting customer databases where anonymised data can’t be provided, we will work within your GDPR-compliant data policies, and ensure that fully informed consent is in place, and that data subjects know how to withdraw that consent.
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CONTACT
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