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Being cognisant of your customers’ life stages enable you to: •Guide the development of your product lines. • Cost-effectively advertise to a particular group. •Design meaningful promotions. • Mature your products to starting out in their careers so they are also concerned about their jobs and making a good impression. Keep love in the air for the young couple and appeal to their new “oneness” and dedication to each other and togetherness. Create images with romance and successful futures and careers ,that they can associate your brand blogs and on business and career magazines and channels. Life stage: Working adults , Single ,with no children Their influencers: Their friends and peers, and workmates. What to do: This group is concerned about their career advancement, about their parents, appearance, and sometimes about messages should reinforce the marketing communication, if you love within the family unit but appeal to the hearts and minds also individuality and uniqueness of your customers and if you of each partner. Create images are aware of their feelings during of families and togetherness. these life stages. Use teen figures to appeal to this lChipo Sibongile group because their children play Mapungwana is a Brand an important role in their The Observer - 26 January 2014 - 9 lives. Reputation and Social Media Give hope by making them feel Consultant. She can be contacted that they still have time to add on [email protected]. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELLING Six ways to boost sales is another great tool to harness in reaching prospective