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Audience Segmentation is the process of breaking a large audience into smaller chunks, or segments. The purpose for this is to match products, services and messages with the audience that will be most receptive to it.

18-year-old men and 70-year-old women may not want the same services you offer, for example, but if they’re both in your customer base, you’d want to separate them so that you can send them information that will be relevant to them.

Some software tools and services will even boast individual segmentation levels, with audiences of one. This refers to content that is delivered to users based on their past web behavior, so that what one person sees is unique to them.

Software and processes that allow marketing functions to be run without constant manual input. For larger organizations, marketing automation is necessary to handle large volumes of customers and the large volume of data that accompanies such a user base.

An approach to web-based marketing that emphasizes attracting people to your site, and its products and services, through informational content that is searched and shared.

This is in juxtaposition to paid marketing, which pays money to present ads and similar placements in order to draw people to your site. In an inbound marketing model, organic search traffic is the primary driver of traffic to many key pages.