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Applied Mareking. What is a market segment?. A market segment consists of a group of customers who share a similar set of needs and wants. Segmenting consumer markets. 1. 2. 3. 4. Geographic. Demographic. Psychographic. Behavioural. Geographic segmentation. Region of the world
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What is a market segment? A market segment consists of a group of customers who share a similar set of needs and wants.
Segmenting consumer markets 1. 2. 3. 4. Geographic Demographic Psychographic Behavioural
Geographic segmentation • Region of the world • Country • Region of a country • City
Demographic segmentation Age and life cycle Life Stage Gender Income Generation Social class
Psychographic segmentation Psychographic segmentation divides buyers into different groups on the basis of traits, lifestyles or values.
Behavioral segmentation: decision roles Initiator Influencer Decider Buyer User
Behavioural segmentation: behavioural variables • Occasions • Benefits • User status • Usage rate • Buyer-readiness • Loyalty status • Attitude
Behavioral segmentation breakdown Figure 10.4Behavioural segmentation breakdown
The conversion model Convertible Shallow Average Entrenched Nonusers Users Strongly unavailable Weakly unavailable Ambivalent Available
AIDA Model Desire Attention Interest Action
What is positioning? Positioning is the act of designing the company’s offering and image to occupy a distinctive place in the mind of the target market.
Examples of Value propositions Table 10.8 Examples of value propositionsSource : M. R. V. Goodman, Durham University
Defining associations Points-of-difference (PODs) • Attributes or benefits consumers strongly associate with a brand, positively evaluate and believe they could not find to the same extent with a competitive brand. Points-of-parity (POPs) • Associations that are not necessarily unique to the brand but may be shared with other brands. • Necessary but not sufficient
Negatively correlated attributes and benefits Table 10.10 Examples of negatively correlated attributes and benefits
Understanding competitive structure of a market • How do customers view the brand? • Which competitive brands do customers perceive to be their closest competitors? • What market offering and company attributes are most responsible for these perceived differences?
What is perceptual mapping? Perceptual(or positioning) mappingis a marketing tool that enables marketers to plot the position of theiroffering against thoseof the competition? Figure 10.7 Example positioning map of the UK chocolate block sector marketSource : M. R. V. Goodman, Durham University
Product differentiation • Product form • Features • Performance • Conformance • Durability • Reliability • Reparability • Style • Design • Ordering ease • Delivery • Installation • Customer training • Customer consulting • Maintenance
Lessons from product life cycles Products (market offerings) have a limited life. Sales pass through distinct stages, each posing different challenges, opportunities and problemsto the seller. Profits rise and fall at different stages of the product life cycle. Products require different marketing, financial, manufacturing, purchasing and human resource strategies at each stage.
Where do these fall on the PLC • FAX • TABLET PC • DESKTOP PC • MOBILE PHONE • SMART PHONE • CALCULATOR • ULTRABOOK • E-READER
What about these? • CRT TV • LCD TV • LED TV • PLASMA TV • 3-D TV • WINDOWS 98 • WINDOW XP • WINDOWS VISTA • WINDOWS 7 • WINDOWS 8