Working Paper

The Business Case for Selling and Marketing to Singles

A. Peter McGraw

University of Colorado Boulder

Dec 19, 2025

Synthesizes insights from interviews and surveys to identify four types of singles, each with different goals, behaviors, spending patterns, and expectations around connection and autonomy that affect their decision making as consumers.

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