Final Customer Buying from the Product Producer

Acquire Steps: Acquire steps include all activities the customer completes preceding the use or the consumption of the product. These steps include the customer's efforts needed for evaluation and acquisition of the product.

2. Emotional: Segment customers according to the personal emotional needs of the segment.

B. Needs to avoid sources of anxiety

3. Economic limitations: Segment customers according to the limitations set by their economic interests and concerns

Segment's approaches to limit on spending
Customer segments with preferences for price point alternatives to the present product
Lower price piont
With less Function – The price point would have:
Other Function

No.	SIC	Year	Note
1	2385	2002	North Face outdoor gear manufacturer and retailer increased the lines of its less expensive casual wear in apparel in order to reach a broader target audience, one that includes more women.
2	3571	1998	In 1994, Wyse Technology Inc. designed a new computing device that would be part PC, part terminal. The new product would run on a microprocessor but it would lack the pricey disk drive.
3	3571	1999	The best screens are made with technology called TFT, and most laptops today have them. The low priced models have a cheaper, less vivid screen technology called dual-scan, or HPA.
4	3571	2002	Gateway Inc. holds only 5.6% of the U.S. market. To help the company grow, the CEO is making a case to prospective Apple shoppers by marketing Gateway as the cheaper alternative. Gateway's new product is a flat screened Profile 4 which resembles Apple's iMacs but is $400 cheaper. The new Gateway doesn't have enough features to win over Apple loyalists but it could lure some small niche of PC users contemplating buying a Mac.
5	3571	2003	While competitors designed their PCs with special bells and whistles and filled warehouses with them, Dell bought components off the shelf and built the computers to customers' orders, reducing overhead and keeping prices low.
6	3577	2004	For years, the server market has been shifting to the "Chicken McNuggets" approach to technology, that all parts are the same. Servers are increasingly seen as commodities, with price being the only selling point.
7	3661	2005	Motorola is emphasizing high style in one new product, an ultrathin model called Slvr. It hopes Slvr will replicate the success of its Razr folding phone. The U.S. version of Slvr is for consumers who might spend $150 on a phone rather than the $300 for a Razr.
8	5812	1998	Many restaurants have responded to tighter purse strings by offering lower-cost menu items and prix fixed meals to court cost conscious customers.
9	6311	2003	Rising customer expectations created a proliferation of new insurance products and more product complexity and cost. As this happened, specialized niche players developed products with lower premiums and faster handling of policies.
10	6331	1997	Chubb Group is offering a separate vacation home policy that can lower premium costs. It adjusts for differences in the way people use their first & second houses.

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