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Section 2 - Summary of Questions

Market Segmentation and Target Marketing

A. Segmenting the Market

  • How are you going to segment the population into smaller homogeneous groups? (geographically, demographically, psychographically)
  • What attitudes/beliefs/behaviours define separate segments?
  • Does the " stages of change model" apply to your segmentation?

B. Identifying Target Audiences

  • Which group(s) should be the primary target audience(s) and why?
  • Which group(s) should be the secondary target audience(s) and why?

C. Analysis of Target Audience

  • What do target audiences know about the desired behaviour?
  • What are the target audiences' values and attitudes related to the desired behaviour?
  • What are the competing behaviours and what are the barriers to changing behaviour?
  • How can you help the target audience overcome barriers to behaviour change?
  • Would upstream efforts that work to change the environment be appropriate for this campaign?