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that the visual imagery of advertising be consistent with what the "mass affluent" look like, talk like, and do. Account planners will concentrate their research on the target segment, using the classification tool to recruit and screen the right people. 6. Call centers. Health plans can ask segment classification questions in their response call-in customer interviews and in their telephone enrollment interviews. The classification can help find the best plan for each caller and this will help assure better retention. 7. Channel mix. Segments may have different affinities for different distribution and sales channels. Perhaps one segment of buyers is unreceptive to e-mail communications; another segment may never accept a personal visit but will read your e-mail. It is the exceptional firm, but some have literally organized themselves around segments. In these firms, any employee can tell you who their target is, and who the target is not. If they have multiple brands, each ...

according to consumer tastes and expectations, even though they appeal and cater to sometimes-hidden deep-routed desires. A luxury brand sets its own standards and does not adhere to fashions. There is an air of leadership to it; it is exceptional, unique, original, artistic-creative, surprising, and novel (but never peculiar in a ridiculous or potentially repelling manner). 3. A luxury brand's most important value lies beyond the core product function or practicality. 4. Luxury brands have something extravagant / excessive / redundant and overly generous about them. Something that is clearly not necessary: the use of unjustifiably expensive materials, performance that is far beyond all needs and requirements, an exaggerated level of service. 5. A luxury brand always expresses zealousness for quality, highly held values or even an ideology, a distinctive culture, together with sense of hedonism, passion for life, and a free spirit. 6. A luxury brand will always be linked with the c...