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Targeting Attractive Market Segments

Learn about market segmentation, targeting strategies, and competitive positioning to effectively reach and engage potential customers. Discover how to identify and assess market segments, define market attractiveness, and prioritize segments based on their potential. Explore various targeting strategies and their benefits in maximizing business growth and success. This guide provides valuable insights and practical tips for optimizing market targeting efforts.

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Targeting Attractive Market Segments

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  1. Targeting Attractive Market Segments 6

  2. Discussion Questions 1. What’s a market? 2. What’s a market segment?

  3. Discussion Questions 3. Why should we segment markets and target certain segments? Are there benefits in doing so? Are there drawbacks?

  4. Objectives of Market Segmentation • Identify a homogeneous segment that differs from other segments • Specify criteria that define the segment • Determine segment size and potential

  5. Discussion Question 4. How should market segments be defined? Three good ways to do it. • Who the customers are • Wherethey are • How they behave

  6. Discussion Question 5.What are some commonly used demographic, geographic and behavioral descriptors?

  7. SAGA segmentation of UK grandparents, where a complete description of each category can be found in this SAGA press release.

  8. Pharmaceutical industry segmentation

  9. Inline skating segmentation

  10. Discussion Question 6. Do these same approaches apply to organizational markets? Examples?

  11. 1. Choose criteria to measure market attractiveness and competitive position. 2. Weigh market attractiveness and competitive position factors to reflect their relative importance. 3. Assess the current position of each potential target market on each factor. 4. Project the future position of each market based on expected environmental, customer, and competitive trends 5. Evaluate implications of possible future changes for business strategies and resources requirements. How should we Decide Which Segments to Target? - Steps in Constructing a Market-Attractiveness/Competitive-Position Matrix

  12. A Useful Tool for Assessing Market Segments: Segment Rating Chart

  13. Market Attractiveness High (8-10) l Moderate (4-7) Low (0-3) Low (0-3) Moderate (4-7) High (8-10) Company’s Competitive Position l = Market attractiveness and competitive position of distance runners segment The Market Attractiveness/ Competitive Position Matrix

  14. Implications of Alternative Positions Within the Market-Attractiveness/Competitive-Position Matrix Competitive Position Weak Strong Medium • Desirable Potential Target • Protect position: • Invest to grow at max. digestible rate • Concentrate on maintaining strength • Build selectively: • Spec. in limited strengths • Seek to overcome weak. • Withdraw if indications of sustainable growth are lacking • Desirable Potential Target • Invest to build: • Challenge for leadership • Build selectively on strengths • Reinforce vulnerable areas High • Limited expansion or harvest: • Look for ways to expand w/out high risk; otherwise min. invest. and focus operations • Desirable Potential Target • Build selectively: • Emphasize profitability by increasing productivity • Build up ability to counter competition • Manage for earnings: • Protect existing strengths • Invest to improve position only in areas where risk is low Med. Market Attractiveness • Divest: • Sell when possible to maximize cash value • Meantime, cut fixed costs & avoid further investment • Manage for earnings: • Protect position • Minimize investment • Protect and refocus: • Defend strengths • Seek ways to increase current earnings without speeding market’s decline Low Sources: Adapted from George S. Day, Analysis for Strategic Market Decisions (St. Paul: West, 1986), p. 204; D. F. Abell and J. S. Hammond, Strategic Market Planning Problems and Analytical Approaches (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1979); and S. J. Robinson, R. E. Hitchens, and D. P. Wade, “The Directional Policy Matrix: Tool for Strategic Planning,” Long Range Planning 11 (1978), pp. 8-15.

  15. Discussion Questions 7. What targeting strategies are available? When should each be used?

  16. Niche-Market Strategy • Mass-Market Strategy • Differentiated Marketing • Growth-Market Strategy

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