Best practices for customer segmentation

Hi all
I am looking for the best practices documentation for customer segmentation, but I cannot find it anywhere in the Service Marketplace.
Could anybody please direct me to where the documentation is? Points will be awarded
Thanks
Joaquin

Found it! It is here:
http://help.sap.com/bp_crmv340/CRM_DE/index.htm

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