Hello, everybody. In this video, we're going to prepare you for your first assignment. For all the assignments for this course, you will need to refer to one brand only. You must choose your favorite brand, a brand that you love. Please think about a brand that you feel you have a strong connection with. This must be a brand that you buy frequently and that makes you feel like you can not live without. As you make your choice, recreate everything you do in any given day. Go back to your routines and spot the brand that is always there. What do you brush your teeth with? Do you wash your hair? Do you have breakfast? Is there a brand do you like? Do you rent electric cars to move around the city? Do you like to pass by a coffee or tea shop every day? Do you like drinking or eating some brands specifically? Do you have comfortable shoes or brand to go to when you like buying new shoes? So on and so forth. Really think about your life before you choose your brand. The brand can belong to any category. The only important thing is that you truly know it, and use it, and love it in some way. It can be a toothpaste, a biscuit, a coffee house, a pair of shoes, your most loved design brand, even an airline, if you're a frequent traveler, anything. But the only condition, you must love the brand, and you must feel a connection of some sort with that brand. The reason why I need you to love your brand, is that you will be working throughout this course on this same brand, so you learn all the different aspects that make it a brand. In this first assignment, you will need to work on consumer segmentation, and answer one question: Who is the core consumer segment my brand is positioned for? If you're a true lover of the brand, chances are you will be a core consumer of this brand, which is the reason why I'm asking you to go for your first choice in any given category. If it's a consumer packaged goods brands, then for a brand you buy regularly. Using the segmentation criteria you will learn during this module, and in order to complete your consumer segmentation exercise properly, you will use the Iceberg model, and you will cover the following points: First one, what is the consumer doing? What is their behavior? This behavior will span when you buy and when you use. So, go back to the way you use this brand. Think carefully about when you use it, what benefits you seek when you use it? How you use it? What type of user you are? How engaged you are? At what point in the customer journey you find yourself? Same thing with buying, where do you buy? When do you buy? How often? Then, you need to delve a bit deeper into the psychographics. What type of general personality traits are behind this choices? Do you tend to go for convenient items or are you curious individual driven by new things? Once you have done this, you need to go into explaining why you are doing what you're doing. Use motivations, start asking why. Behave like a two-year-old until you reach a point in which you cannot ask yourself anymore why you do what you do. Once you finish this, you can try and look at this consumer and talk a little bit about its demographics. Think whether it's more urban or rural, more old or young, more female or male. These criteria will not help you segment, but they will allow you to complete the picture and the persona. The output should be a complete Iceberg model. It will be used to keep each stage separate from each other. The count of maximum of four slides more or less. Usage and purchase behavior, overall psychographics. motivations, including the motivation attention, and your demographics.