Marketing segmentation, targeting, and positioning Flashcards

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It is a subdivision or part of an overall market with specific and distinctive characteristics

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Market Segment

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It involves grouping various customers into segments that have common needs or will respond similarly to a marketing action

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Market Segmentation

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It involves finding out that kinds of consumers with different needs exist

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Segmentation

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Criteria must be met in order for segmentation to be useful

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  1. Substantiality
  2. Measurability
  3. Accessibility
  4. Differentiable
  5. Actionable
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5
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The companies tailor-fit their marketing to the needs and wants of the particular market segment

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Market segmentation

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It is composed of individuals or organizations with the ability and willingness to make purchases to fulfill their needs or wants

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Market

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7
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It means all customers within the segment have similar preferences and characteristics but externally heterogeneous

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Internal homogeneity

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It means segregating markets by region of the country or the world, market size, market density or climate

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Geographic segmentation

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It is normally used for geographic segmentation because of its tremendous effect on residents’ needs and purchasing behavior

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Climate

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It is a market segmentation according to age, race,religion, gender, family size, ethnicity, income, and education

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Demographic segmentation

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This exert substantial influence over family purchases specifically in food

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School-age-children

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12
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Members of this generation were born between 1982 to 2003.

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Generation Y

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Members of this generation were born between 1946 and 1964

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Baby boomers

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It is a popular target of marketers because of their numbers and income levels.

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Baby boomers

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Members of this generation were born between 1965 and 1981

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Generation X

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This group is very family-oriented, well-educated and optimistic

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Generation X

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17
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They are composed of retirees living on modest incomes

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Seniors

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Members of this generation were born beyond 1946

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Seniors

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It is dividing a market into different segments based on gender

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Gender segmentation

20
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It is dividing a market into different income segments

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Income segmentation

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It influences consumers’ wants and determines their buying power

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Income

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It is a series of stages established through combination of age, marital status and the presence or absence of children

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Family life cycle

23
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It divides buyers into different segments based on personality, motives, lifestyles, and geodemographic

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Psychographic segmentation

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It mirrors a person’s traits, attitudes, and habits

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Personality

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It is a need that is sufficiently pressing to direct the person to seek satisfaction

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Motives

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It is a person’s way of living and describes how an individual spends his time, the importance of things around him, his beliefs and socioeconomic characteristics like income and education

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Lifestyle

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It divides the potential market into neighborhood lifestyles

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Geodemographic

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This manner of segmentation combines geographic, demographic, and lifestyle segmentations

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Geodemographic

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It divides buyers into segments based on their knowledge, attitudes, uses, or responses to a product

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Behavioral segmentation

30
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It involves breaking a market into segments and then concentrating marketing efforts on one or a few key segments

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Market Targeting

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It is a strategy that uses two or more marketing mixes to target two or more market segments

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Multisegment Targeting

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It is the most sought after target market strategy because it has the potential to generate sales volume, higher profits, larger market share and economies of scale in manufacturing and marketing

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Multisegment Targeting

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It focuses all marketing efforts on a single market segment

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Concentrated Targeting strategy

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It assumes that all members of a market have similar needs that can be met with a single marketing mix

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Undifferentiated targeting

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It occurs when the marketer ignores the apparent segment differences that exist within the market and uses a marketing strategy that is intended to appeal to as many people as possible

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Undifferentiated Targeting

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It is tailoring a product to the specific needs of an individual customer

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Customized targeting

37
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It is developing a product and brand image in the minds of consumers

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Market Positioning

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It is competing directly with competitors on similar product attributes in the same target markets

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Head-to-Head positioning

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It seeks a less competitive smaller market niche in which to position the brand

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Differentiation positioning

40
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It is a technique of attempting to determine through graphing how different product brands are perceived by consumers when mapped or compared against two or more product dimensions

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Perceptual mapping

41
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bases for positioning which a company may use

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Attribute
Price and quality
Use or application
Product User
Product class
Competitor
Emotion

42
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It is a brief description of the target market as well as a convincing picture of how the company wants that market to perceive the brand

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Positioning statement

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It is a guidepost for the marketing efforts

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A good positioning statement

44
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It helps maintain focus on the brand and its value proposition while working on market

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A good positioning statement

45
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Bases of segmenting business markets

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Geographical location
Company Size
Usage rate
End-user application
Type of buying situation