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Posted by Star on January 19th, 2021

What is target marketing?

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Target marketing is the decision made to target its marketing efforts and ultimately its merchandise at a particular group of customers. Targeting a market makes it easy and suitable to make sales. It selects the most appropriate market for the products, in this manner increasing its sales. A business house launches a product in expectation that it will sell at a good rate. Launching a product in the market involves an investment of valuable time and resources so that it can mark a place in the market. Performing a target marketing analysis not only saves valuable time and resources but also helps in understanding and gathering information about the target demographic. So when the product is launched in the market, the customers know what they are investing in.

Running a target marketing analysis beforehand makes sure what product is being presented to what type of customers, in that way the products can be tailored according to the needs and expectation of the customers and the business does not have to work backwards.

How is it done?

In addition to the secondary information, it will be an advantage if surveys were taken by self so that more required information can be gathered. Thus the needs and demands of the customers can be known in a better way and the information can be used in providing right products to the right customers.

3) The gathered information can be used to target the audience which also opens many options like choosing the most appropriate market from many prospect markets which give the highest sales yield. The target markets should have less competition in order for the newly launched product to kick in.

4) Once the target market is chosen, the marketing can be tailored according to the customer behaviour and buying habits.

Why is it so important?

Market targeting is a procedure where a market is broken down into different segments and then the focus is set on the most sales yielding segment. Target marketing is essential for any business because the business needs to know that what it is offering is going to be accepted by the customers. It helps the business to know how much the customers are willing to pay for the product, what will be the demand, what changes need to be made from time to time etc.

Target marketing also tells that the business is going to be profited by what is being sold. It is not wise in wasting time and money only to learn at the end that the customers are not even interested in the product.

As the profit of the business increases the business becomes successful. Target marketing prevents the wastage of valuable time and cost. It allows the business to understand their customers better and to know how to change in future to their preferences.

So, is target marketing ever bad?

Target marketing is constructive for the sales of a business. It helps in choosing the right market for the right products but under some circumstances, carrying out a target marketing analysis becomes challenging.

Small-scale companies may find target marketing an expensive deal but a rough market analysis is done by them to find out what needs the customers have in the particular areas. A thorough research analysis seems to be expensive. Small-scale businesses mostly conduct primary research to determine who will buy their products. A complete market targeting requires hundreds of surveys and interviews but some marketing research managers hire research agencies to carry out the research work but it can cost a fortune.

Since target marketing analysis involves tonnes of surveys, it takes a lot of time. Identifying the target audience, collecting the data, analysing the data, forming the ad campaigns seems to take a lot of time. Some small businesses use market segmentation to determine their target audience. Market segmentation divides the complete market into sub-groups which have similar taste, demand and need.

As understood target market focuses on targeting the markets for best sales but doing this the businesses might lose a significant number of customers. This can be explained with the help of an example; a video games company may focus on the young age group thinking it to be the most potential audience whereas sometimes different age groups also like to play video games.

Thus, we can say that target marketing is good as well as bad at some point, depending on the business type, business size andbusiness growth level. Small businesses may find target marketing unsuitable due to various reasons stated above. Large businesses may benefit from target marketing but they may also lose significant customers trying to focus on the target audience.

Here at Hypo Venture Capital we are committed to offering our venture capital clients access to the latest and broadest range of financial services and products on the market. We know that choosing the right strategy, the right investment and the right product is no easy task in this day and age! Whether its advice, investments or financial planning we are here to answer all your questions and facilitate all your financial needs

What are the benefits available to you from the world of offshore savings, investment, finance and banking?

Even in this day and age of enlightenment thanks to the pervasive nature of information dissemination via the internet, some people are still concerned about the legalities and legitimacy of the offshore world of finance and banking. For some reason others simply assume that onshore equates to a 'safe haven' for money and offshore equates to a 'risky tax haven.'

Well, you and I know that that is simply not the case! However, even though it is now clearer to more people that the offshore world holds many potential taxation benefits, there are still questions to be answered about why one should invest offshore and in this article we explore the benefits.

First things first...here's another myth I wish to dispel – some people say that offshore investments and bank accounts are more lightly regulated than their entity-type-counterparts onshore...now, that's not necessarily true!

Yes, certain jurisdictions give fund managers, bankers and investors pretty much free rein so that the rewards and risks are potentially far greater – but some jurisdictions are very highly regarded among financial professionals simply because of the incredibly high standards of protection they afford investors and account holders through insurance schemes and government regulation requirements for example:

The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are examples of offshore jurisdictions where offshore investment and saving policy or bank account holders are afforded high levels of protection. Just taking the Isle of Man – it offers policyholder protection schemes, it also has the highest financial services rating issued by the OECD, FATF and FSF and it has an independent Financial Services Ombudsman scheme not to mention the fact that both Standard and Poor's and Moody's have given the Isle of Man AAA ratings.

So – myth dispelled, let's move on.

In terms of the benefits available when investing offshore they will always, always depend on the particular circumstances of the individual investor - but offshore financial services and structures can be used as part of an overall asset protection strategy for example, investing offshore can afford an investor greater flexibility in terms of international accessibility and the commodities, equities, derivatives, stocks, shares or companies they can invest in, plus there are of course sometimes significant taxation benefits available to an account holder depending on their countries of tax residence and domicile.

Other answers to the question posed by this article – namely 'why invest offshore?' – are because there are general benefits available including more efficient estate planning potential, privacy and confidentiality, better interest returns, the chance to exploit active business interests overseas in low or no tax locations and global access to assets and income.

So, while the internet has been fantastic in terms of allowing more people to become far more broadly informed - especially about subjects as seemingly taboo as all things offshore - it is still absolutely in a government's interests to avoid advising people that the offshore world is open and available to them because they may well lose out on taxation revenue as a result! This means it is up to independent websites such as World Financial Asset Advisory to give you free access to facts and general information and for you to then see how and why such information is or is not applicable to your own personal circumstances. At which stage you can then take specific and expert advice from a qualified individual as to how you can best utilize the offshore world.

And on that final note there is just one more thing to say! A potential investor (you) has to be absolutely sure that the actions they are about to take in terms of placing assets offshore will be of benefit to them. Additionally they need to make sure that they are acting legally, that a company they are entrusting with their money is legitimate and that they understand the risks associated with their decisions.

To that end we at Hypo Venture Capital will always advise that you should to do your own due diligence on the jurisdiction recommended to you or chosen by you, the company you are considering investing or banking with and the policy or account you are taking out. Common sense is the main key to ensuring you do not make a mistake when entering the world of offshore finance and common sense is something we here at Hypo Venture Capital pride ourselves on!

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