7. Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy Flashcards
The process of evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter
Market targeting (or targeting)
Dividing a market into smaller groups with distinct needs, characteristics or behaviours who might require separate products or marketing mixes
Market segmentation
Actually differentiating the firm’s market offering to create superior customer value
Differentiation
Arranging for a product to occupy a clear, distinctive and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target consumers
Positioning
Dividing a market into different geographical units such as nations, states, regions, countries, cities or neighbourhoods
Geographic segmentation
Dividing a market into groups based in variables such as age, gender, family size, family life cycle, income, occupation, education, religion, race, generation and nationality
Demographic segmentation
Dividing a market into different age and life-cycle groups
Age and life-cycle segmentation
Dividing a market into different segments based on gender
Gender segmentation
Dividing a market into different income groups
Income segmentation
Dividing a market into different groups based on social class, lifestyle or personality characteristics
Psychographic segmentation
Dividing a market into groups based on consumer knowledge, attitude, use of, or response to a product
Behavioural segmentation
Dividing a market into groups according to occasions when buyers get the idea to buy, actually make their purchase or use the purchased item
Occasion segmentation
Dividing a market into groups according to the different benefits that consumers seek from the product
Benefit segmentation
Forming segments of consumers who have similar needs and buying behaviour even though they are located in different countries
Intermarket segmentation
What are the requirements for effective segmentation?
Measurable Accessible Substantial Differentiable Actionable
A set of buyers sharing common needs or characteristics that the company decides to serve
Target market
A market-coverage strategy in which a firm decided to ignore market segment differences and go after the whole market with one offer
Broadest form of target marketing
Undifferentiated (or mass) marketing
A market-coverage strategy in which a form decides to target several market segments and designs separate offers for each
Differentiated (or segmented) marketing
A market-coverage strategy in which a firm goes after a large share of one or a few segments or niches
Concentrated (or niche) marketing
The practice of tailoring products and marketing programs to the needs and wants of specific individuals and local customer groups
Includes local marketing and individual marketing
Micromarketing
Tailoring brands and promotions to the needs and wants of local customer groups—cities, neighbourhoods and even specific stores
Local marketing
Tailoring products and marketing programs to the needs and preferences of individual customers—also called customised marketing, one-to-one marketing and markets-of-one marketing
Individual marketing
The way the product is defined by the consumers on important attributes—the place the product occupied in the consumers’ minds relative to competing products
Product position
Identifying a set of possible customer value differences
Choosing the right competitive advantages
Effectively communicating and delivering the chosen position
Steps of the differentiation and positioning task