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Dividing a market into distinct groups with distinct needs, characteristics, or behavior who might rquire separate products or marketing mixes
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Market Segmentation
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3 Steps in Marketing
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1. Market Segmentation2. Target Marketing3. Market Positioning
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Behavior Segmentation Variables
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Occasions, Benefits, User Status, User rates, Loyalty Status, Readiness Stage, Attitude Toward the Product.
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Key is the "best" fit between organizations resources, strengths, product mix and the needs of the target market
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Target Marketing
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Socially Responsible TargetingSpecial Risk segments:
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ChildrenInner-city minority consumersInternet Shoppers
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Positioning
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Arranging for a market offering to occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place, relative to competing products in the mind of target consumers
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Target Market
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A set of buyers sharing common needs or characteristics that the company decides to serve
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Undifferentiated (mass) marketing
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A market-coverage strategy in which a firm decides to ignore market segment differences and go after the whole market with one offer.
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Differentiated (segmented) marketing
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A market-coverage strategy in which a firm decides to target several market segments and designs separate offers for each.
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Concentrated (niche) marketing
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A marketing-coverage strategy in which a firm goes after a large share of one or a few segments or niches.
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Value Proposition
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The full positioning of a brand, the full mix of benefits upon which it is positioned
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