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What's Your Problem?: Lifestage Segments
What's Your Problem?: Lifestage Segments
Touch, Smell, Feel your Market Young Nesters (Median to HI-End Handset
Upgraders) - shift of priorities to kids and
- Don’t pretend that you know the market setting down acquisitions, might have upgrade
when you are NOT the market. in previous lifestage, back to back telco needs
“Nobody but a 16-year old can be a 16
year old.” Mature Nesters (Additional Liners) -
established careers, looking forward to next
- Learn to segmentize the market. lifestage, heavy business usage, need for
family connectivity
Example:
Lifestage Segments: Empty Nesters (Additional Liners) - shift of
Dependent Singles - tweens, teens still living priorities back to themselves, need for
with their parents acceptance, keep pace with the rest of the
Independent Singles - young adults who are world, more monied, more indulgent
getting established in their careers
Young Couples - married couples who are Assign names to your market.
just starting to build a company DOBY’s - Daddy Older, Baby Younger
Young Nesters - parents with kids under 12 MOBY’s - Mommy Older, Baby Young.
years old Women having babies later in life.
Mature Nesters - parents with tween and teen SKIPPIE’s - School Kids with Incomes and
kids Purchasing Power
Empty Nesters - parents with adult kids WOOF’s - Well-Off Older Folks
Independent Singles (Median to HI-End Distill the Knowledge Gained in the Course
Handset Upgraders) - source of self-esteem, a of your Investigation
- Don’t get paralyzed with information.
Track your Brand’s Performance
- A two-inch report may not have fit, may not
be relevant. A one-liner from an FGD on the A job does not get done with every commercial
other hand, may say it all. produced or an ad printed.
If it’s not clear on paper, it’s not clear in your Expand your Knowledge
head.
Know the shakers and movers of the industry
The brief serves three masters:
• The marketer expects an insightful Learn to spot Award Winning Ads
summation of how the communication
strategy satisfies the marketing objective Follow effective case studies.
• The creative expects to receive a clear
focus of the problem, which the Offer insights about successful case studies.
advertising aims to address
• The brief writer should benefit from the Study branding strategies.
discipline of writing the document
Casting - search for the right talents If only one or two dimensions…
- A “flat” or uninspiring picture
Bidding - production houses bid for the project
- Does not capture the rich power of any
Director’s Briefing - director is briefed on the brand
story
If four or more
Feasibility 1 - director presents his treatment; - Laundry lists
agency reacts - No focus/coherence, and hard to understand
Feasibility 2 - director presents his revised Three dimensions provide a manageable
treatment portrait that marketers and creative people can
work with
Pre-Production - director and agency meet w/
client to discuss details of shoot Diagnostic vs Prescribed Brand Footprints
Actual SHOOT Good Footprints Bridge the Past with the
Future
- Should reflect the continuity and credibility
The Brand Footprint
of the brand’s history, while charting a new
direction to allow for future expansion
The “MEANS”
- What a brand gets credit for in the eyes of - A good check: DOES IT FEEL AND
the consumer SOUND LIKE MY BRAND?
- Its reputation Writing the Brand Footprint
The “IS” Where does the process begin?
- How would we describe a brand’s
personality traits
What Space does your brand hold now? Pale Pilsen - “iba ang may pinagsamahan, old
How about your competitors? man’s beer (pang-tatay), pang-okasyon; fiesta,
binyagan, kasalan, birthdays, Efren Bata
The place to start is the consumer. Ask Reyes
him/her.
San Mig Light - sosi, young, bars and parties,
Chances are, though… for girls and redefined boys, light lang ang
- He/She will not tell you tama (light on stomach)
- He/ She cannot tell you
Brand Projection
Example:
Red Horse - thirties, barumbado, matapang &
bagsik, “Jeprox, Jologs”, long hair, jeans and
rubber shoes
Example:
Brand Archaelogy Tools Pale Pilsen - en-grande, fiesta, baptism,
wedding, birthday, all kinds of people,
Brand Image Inventory enjoying, laughing, grilled foot, huge
quantities
Example:
San Miguel Beer (Current) Brand Footprint
… Is Reliable
… Is Traditional
… Resilient