Explore resources that will enable you to identify audience segments and gain a better understanding of customer differences.

Buyer personas are descriptions of each of your target customers, based on customer and consumer research. Each persona describes a different fictional buyer who embodies the demographics, pain points, buying behaviors, and motivations of a specific market segment. Find out how to use buyer personas in marketing.

To identify your ideal group of consumers and understand them fully, you’ll need to perform target market analysis. We’ll show you how, using surveys.

Buyer personas are a key ingredient to understanding your target audience. Without them, your communication can easily become misguided and less valuable. So take the time to define your buyer personas using surveys. In the short-term, the work that goes into creating them will be less daunting than you’d think; and over the long run, you’ll be able to attract the most desirable customers and prospects to your business.

What's the difference between demographic data and psychographic data? Learn everything you need to know about how to to study and classify people according to psychological criteria like their attitudes, aspirations, values, lifestyle, and personality in this breakdown of how companies and marketers can use psychographic surveys to better understand their customers.

Market segmentation lets you identify the types of customers you have and reach them with the right messaging. Learn how SurveyMonkey can help.