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The discussion requires a minimum of 300 words, 3 scholarly sources, including the textbook. Make sure that you use APA style with your references. Under no circumstances use any direct quotes. Any directly quoted or copied material will result in a zero for the assignment. Let’s be sure to write it in own work 100% and give appropriately when using someone’s else work.

Please use complete sentences and proper grammar in all postings. Remember to reference at least two external scholarly sources (in addition to the text or course materials) in your initial post.

Reference for textbook attached:

Textbook: Ferrell, O. C., & Hartline, M. D. (2014). Marketing strategy: Text and cases (7th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western/Cengage Learning.

As discussed in Chapter 5, VALS is a very popular proprietary market segmentation tool.

  • Go to the Strategic Business Insights website at http://www.strategicbusinessinsights.com/vals/presurvey.shtml
  • Click on “Take the VALS survey” and complete all of the questions. Then, click “Submit” to view your results.
  • Share your results. Were the results surprising to you? Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not?
  • Discuss products or companies where it might be appropriate to utilize market segmentation according to personality traits.
  • Support your post with scholarly RESEARCH on market segmentation and personality.



1,500 word count and there is a total of 5 questions each (not including in-text citation and references as the word count), a minimum of 4 scholarly sources are required in APA format. For the 4 scholarly sources, one from the textbook that’s posted below and the other three from an outside source . Let’s be sure to write it in own work 100% and give appropriately when using someone’s else work. Under no circumstances use any direct quotes. Any directly quoted or copied material will result in a zero for the assignment.

Please use complete sentences and proper grammar in all postings. Remember to reference at least three external scholarly sources (in addition to the text or course materials).

Reference for textbook attached:

Textbook: Ferrell, O. C., & Hartline, M. D. (2014). Marketing strategy: Text and cases (7th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western/Cengage Learning.

1 Effective marketing requires an understanding of the prospective buyers’ buying process (i.e., purchase decision process). Choose a recent purchase decision you made to use as an example. Distinguish the stages of the buying process and explain the key issues of each stage as they relate to your experience.

2 Buyers experience many situational influences during the buying process. Using the same experience you chose for Question 1, analyze the types of situational influences you experienced and explain how those factors affected your buying process and ultimate purchase decision.

3 Marketers use several segmentation categories and various variables within each category when segmenting prospective markets. Thinking about the buying experience you described in Questions 1 and 2, which segmentation categories and variables may have been relevant for the marketing organization’s segmentation? Identify the specific categories and variables and construct a target audience profile (one that may approximate how that organization described you and others in your segment).

4 Of the segmentation categories (i.e., segmentation bases), compare their relative value for marketing organizations. Which do you believe to be most valuable for marketers now and in the future? Explain.

5 Consumer advocates criticize marketers’ reliance on segmentation because segmentation analyses utilize personal data and represent an abuse of personal privacy. Considering both your concerns as an individual and the value of this data for marketing, where do you stand on this issue? Discuss your position and propose guidelines marketers could use to benefit from segmentation analyses while protecting and respecting consumer privacy.