Answer:
E) Aggregating prospective buyers into groups that have common needs and will respond similarly to a marketing decision.
Step-by-step explanation:
Market segmentation is the process of dividing a broad target market which is made up of existing and potential customers, into subgroups of consumers also called segments. When segmenting markets, characteristics such as needs, interests and lifestyle are checked to find the most shared amongst the targets. The objective of segmentation is to identify the high yielding segments, meaning the most profitable amongst segments and the one called the high yielding segments become the target market.
There are different ways of segmentation:- a) Business-to- Business vendors(B2B), segment the market into types of businesses while b) Business-to-Customers vendors(B2C), segment the market into lifestyle segment, behavioural segments and other segments based on needs and interests.