The phrase "a core customer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a primary or essential customer segment that is crucial to a business's success.
Example: "Understanding the needs of a core customer is vital for developing effective marketing strategies."
Alternatives: "key customer" or "primary customer".
A startup may recognize a core customer segment in an urban center prone to sea level rise (lower Manhattan, South Beach, or Ho Chi Minh City) and deliberately choose vulnerability to rising sea levels as a means to serve these markets.
You've kept a core customer base and you have fair voice and data plans.
On the other hand, companies like Mazda believe that consumers will always want to drive, and they are building/selling vehicles to a "core customer who loves driving".
But really, they start with the designer as a core customer and spread virally within an organization to serve a multitude".
Hence, a significant portion of the work can be expected to be conducted by the DIY segment, which is a core customer base for both Home Depot and Lowe's.
In their introductory blog post, co-founder Hillel Cooperman talks about his grandfather's fish store, Jackson Fish, a "small businesses was run by family, with everyone pitching in as best they could" and which sold "handcrafted products" that "that both address a core customer need, but also make them feel emotionally satisfied, content, and… happy".
After first consolidating a core customer-base in Mexico, these firms are now expanding overseas.Today Mexican business schools are catering to a rising demand for courses specifically focusing on the problems and challenges of the family-businesses.
The sticking point before was Green Street's insistence on a 24-hour lag from when its $30,000-a-year core customers get the ratings, a reasonable request since REIT stocks aren't volatile and underlying values change slowly.
We have a strong core customer base in North America, but are starting to grow in other geographies, especially Europe.
The decidedly unsexy truth of the matter is that Wal-Mart is best at selling large quantities of commodity products in apparel to a decidedly basic core customer segment that is looking for price, quality and brand (brands where they can get it) and in that order".
Do create an innovative and cost efficient formula for running a concentrated, sustained, and proactive outbound marketing program that effectively creates a bridge between your core customer's needs and your product.
