Ch.7 S, T & P Flashcards
Segmentation
Divide market into groups with different needs or behaviours who need dif. Marketing mixes (4ps)
Each segment should respond similarly to mark strategies
Can be geographic
Demographic
Psychographic
Behavioural ( usage)
S, T & P purpose
Designing customer driven marketing strategy
Targeting
Evaluate attractiveness of segments to enter
Differentiating
Create customer value by offering a unique quality or feature
Positioning
Create clear and desirable place (relative to competitors) for a product in the mind of the consumers
Geographic segmentation
By region, urban vs rural classification, climate, pop density
Demographic segmentation
Age, gender, family size and life cycle, income, occupation, education, religion, race, generation
Most popular one
Geodemographic segmentation
Clusters based on social values and neighbourhoods
Example of multiple segmentation bases
Psychographic
Lifestyle Social class Personality Attitudes Vals= 8 PG segments ( thinkers, believers, survivors, makers, strivers...) Hard to get
Behavioural segmentation
Knowledge
Usage behaviour
Response to product
( purchase occasion, benefits seeked (tide vs gain), user status (ex vs potential user), user rates (heavy vs light), loyalty (accept substitutes?))
Segmentation criteria
Measurable size, purchasing power
Accesible effectively reach the segment
Substantial big enough to be profitable
Differentiable same 4 same segment, dif. Across segments
Actionable # of segments match capacity of the firm
Segmentation process
Segment profile
Evaluation of seg ( size, growth rate, attractiveness (competitors & substitutes), compatibility with company resources, value proposition)
Select/target specific segs
Selecting targets
Undifferentiated mass mark common needs like Kleenex max. Market reach at low cost not to use if competitors do dif mark
Dif. Mark (shoes)gives stronger position in a segment but you need to spend
Concentrated niche mark zappos gives large share of a few segments possible with few ressources if products are differentiable
Micro mark allows customization WM con soup ordering better only if you have lots of ressources, you can go as far as you want
Perceptual maps
Move closer to ideal
Introduce a new product cti
Shift ideal point by changing importance of attributes or introducing new ones
Reposition change perception