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¶ … particular types of businesses (for example, convenience stores or auto dealers), Federated emphasizes macrosegmentation. To further sharpen strategy, suggest possible ways that particular macrosegments could be broken down further into meaningful microsegments.
Different businesses have different needs. For example, jewelers have a specific need to insure high-risk goods which can be stolen and thus need casualty insurance to protect these vital assets; auto dealers may likewise need to insure their cars which may become damaged in a hailstorm or flood. In contrast, businesses dependent upon the labor of workers in high-risk occupations such as machine shops and building contractors would need to have insurance for their employee's on-the-job hazards in the form of worker's compensation, a specific kind of causality insurance. "Property casualty insurance can also be called property liability insurance. Whatever you call it, what it does is help protect you against financial losses that come as a result of being held legally liable for an accident that causes damage to another person or another person's belongings" ("What is property casualty insurance," All State).
Businesses which employ a large sales force of permanent employees (including administrative staff and salespersons) may wish to offer competitive benefits packages to attract high-quality talent. Thus some small businesses are more concerned with protecting their property; others with protecting their workers; and still others with getting low-cost...
Such macrosegmentation might go as follows:
Small businesses with low labor needs and high-risk property: These would include jewelry shops, convenience stores, and gas stations all of which face a substantial risk of a break-in and face threats to either merchandise or cash on hand.
Small businesses with high labor needs: These might include auto and tire dealers, building contractors, equipment sales, and other dealers which offer competitive benefits packages to salespersons and other critical workers.
High-risk labor-related businesses: These would include businesses such as building contractors or lawn service companies in which employees are at significant risk and thus worker's compensation would be required for these employees.
Small, low-risk businesses: These include funeral service businesses and other relatively low-risk businesses in which the sole or joint proprietors might merely need health insurance for themselves as independent proprietors.
Q2. In buying insurance, some SMB customers just want the lowest-priced option for each type of insurance, whereas others want value-added services (for example, risk-management guidance) and…
References
"Buying insurance." SBA. [12 Feb 2014]
http://www.sba.gov/content/buying-insurance
"Sole proprietorships." Nolo. [12 Feb 2014]
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/sole-proprietorship-basics-29694.html
http://www.allstate.com/tools-and-resources/home-insurance/property-casualty-insurance.aspx
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