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viagra target market? If you were the VP of Marketing....

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their marketing strategy is fine you are over thinking this
that is an interesting question Let me work on this
everyman over 40 needs erection pills they just don't know it yet
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I am in my mid 50's I get constant ads various erection pills. Ironically I have a hyper-sex drive and do not need their pills.

I googled target market viagra and got 53 male. Others said 40 plus Which makes me wonder. Are they so marketing illiterate tha the two benchmarks they use to define their target market is 40 or 53 plus and male?

If that is true, (and it appears to be so) I wonder how much they leave on the table by ignoring men in their 30's while attempting to market to older men who

1) may have a high sex drive
2) may be asexual
3) may be younger but so out of shape that even with an erection pill they can' t actuallly peform

and others?

I addition target marketing as a strategy and ad spend it produces isn't cheap in a digital world. The opportunity cost of marketing to non potential customers (like myself) is insane.

Lets pretend you were the VP of marketing for erection pills. How would you change their marketing spend and why? Include things like PR to deal with the same from it to even gov lobbying .

Tell us how you would define the target market, the secondary market and how you would mitigate the difficulty in identifying who has erection issues

it is a thought experiment and I won't argue with you but curious how others would approach this. I have my thoughts but would need to put them together.

On a footnote would love it if someone on here answered who is in marketing in the professional world or has a degree in marketing (aka not me)
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OogieBoogie · F Best Comment
The thing is ED is a symptom of an underlying health issue - bad circulation .

If a man isnt getting enough bloodflow to retain or attain an erection, then he also isnt getting enough bloodflow to his heart, brain, organs...body.

Viagra is basically a bandaid to cover health issues that should be screaming to doctors "fix me" rather than blinding men into thinking its only got to do with their penis.

Viagra isn't fallproof either. At least 30%, ( or lilely more), of men who take it, - it doesn't work. If the enzymes and nutrients needed within the body for it to draw upon are at low levels, (like taurine), then it can't work....no matter how much a person takes.

Personally, id be ethical and market it like blood pressure tablets - "to be taken in conjuction with a healtheir lifestyle"

In fact blood pressure medication is one reason why some men lose their abilty to get an erection - it fakely lowers their blood pressure enough to live and avoid heart attack, but because its a fake lowering, they then cant raise their systolic pressure enough to achieve an erection.

Ergo - ED should be treated with improvement of health .... NOT a tablet .

Its not unheaed of for men to overdose with viagra to get hard .......and end up in cardiac arrest
robertsnj · 56-60, M
@OogieBoogie wow i am floored by your response--that was awesome
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robertsnj · 56-60, M
@OogieBoogie that is a great perspective / i was really unprepared when i asked the question. i was more curious and thinking marketing analysis as a topic is fun --but your prespecptive really unwraps the bigger issues i never considered
@robertsnj hahahaha.

Oh god....that sounds like me .
I take way too much from a logical point of view and totally miss the humour 🙄😂
robertsnj · 56-60, M
@OogieBoogie it was a seroius question / i was curious about marketing strategy / but you really unwrapped the bigger 1000 foot overview things i never considered. it was really humbling to read this perspecitive--really was floored by yoru posts --but in a good way--you are really smart
@robertsnj im not really. I cant adult for the life of me😏

But im fantastic at uselss information.

I mean, how on earth is knowing this about erectile dysfunction gonna help me - a woman 😂
Subsumedpat · 36-40, M
@OogieBoogie You sure know a lot about stuff.
@Subsumedpat i grew up with a dad that emcouraged us to research interests

And to this day, i find out new stuff EVERY day.

But in truth, im one of those people that know a little bit about a lot of things..

The human body alone is amazing.....and then theres the sciences, society, the world .... the universe!
Theres just so much to learn 🤩