Market Segmentation: How to do it, how to profit from it – Malcolm McDonald & Ian Dunbar

McDonald and Dunbar are the leading author team in this area

* Segmentation and marketing mapping are core areas of the marketing syllabus, and there is much that is new as a result of the new segmentation possibilities from e-marketing and e-business

* The book has a textbook feel, which highlights the diagrams and market maps (key elements of the book)

This is a key book, in a vital area. The Butterworth-Heinemann edition of what was previously published by MacMillian, is a thoroughly revised and updated version.

Highly developed and well illustrated treatment of a key marketing technique
* Usable by students and executives, for whom the practical, step-by-step approach is designed
* Leading author team in the field

Undergraduate and postgraduate marketing students, and marketing professionals.

Foreword
Preface and acknowledgements
An important note to the reader from the authors
1 The state of marketing
2 The central role of market segmentation in profitable growth
3 Preparing for segmentation – avoiding the big mistakes
4 Determining the scope of a segmentation project
5 Portraying how a market works and identifying decision-makers
6 Developing a representative sample of different decision-makers
7 Accounting for the behaviour of decision-makers
8 Forming market segments out of like-minded decision-makers
9 Determining the attractiveness of market segments
10 Assessing company competitiveness and the portfolio matrix
11 Realizing the full potential of market mapping
12 Predicting market transformation
13 Setting marketing objectives and strategies for identified segments
14 Organisational issues in market segmentation
15 Using segmentation to improve performance – a case study