Chapter 8 Flashcards
What is a market?
People or organizations with needs/wants and the ability and willingness to buy
What is a market segment?
A subgroup of people or organizations sharing one or more characteristics that cause them to have similar product needs
What is market segmentation?
The process of dividing a market into meaningful, relatively similar, and identifiable segments or groups
3 reasons a marketer would use market segmentation
- Helps marketers define customer needs and wants
- Leads to understanding of customer lifestyles, values, jobs, needs, and buying occasions
- Helps decision makers more accurately define marketing objectives and better allocate resources
What are the 4 basic criteria in order for a market segment to be legitimate?
Sustainability
Measurability/Identifiability
Accessibility
Responsiveness
What is sustainability within market segments?
A segment must be large enough to warrant developing and maintaining a special marketing mix
What is measurability and identifiability within marketing segments?
Information about a population within geographic boundaries, various age categories, and other social and demographic characteristics are often easy to get
Provide fairly concrete measures of segment size
What is accessibility within marketing segments?
The firm must be able to reach members of targeted segments with customized marketing mixes
What is responsiveness within marketing segments?
Segments need not be treated separately unless one market segment responds differently to a marketing mix than other segments
What are the 5 broad segmentation bases used by marketers?
Geographic
Demographic
Psychographic
Benefit
Usage-Rate
What are segmentation bases?
Characteristics of individuals, groups, or organizations that divide a market into segments
What is geographic segmentation?
Segmenting markets by a region of a country or the world, market size, market density, or climate
What is market density?
The number of people within a unit of land
What is demographic segmentation?
Segmenting markets by age, gender, income, ethnic background, and family life cycle
What are some typical characteristics of Gen Z?
1995-2015
Work for success
Etiquette for social media
Cautious
Starting to enter workforce
What are some typical characteristics of Millennials?
1980-1994
Idealistic/Pragmatic
Technology-proficient
Seeking experiences
Love private brands
What are some typical characteristics of the Baby Boomer generation?
1946-1964
Outspend average consumer in nearly every category
Spend time and money doing whatever is necessary to maintain vitality
What are some typical characteristics of Gen X?
1965-1979
“Sandwich generation”
Latchkey kids
Best educated
Disloyal to brands
Skeptical of big business
What are some typical characteristics of the Silent Generation?
Born before 1946
Ability to quietly persevere through hardships
Were taught to play by the rules
What’s important about gender segmentaion?
Women drive 70-80% of purchases of consumer goods/year
Companies that have traditionally targeted women are targeting men and vice versa
What’s important about income segmentation?
Income influences consumers’ wants and determines their buying power
What is disposable income?
What is discretionary income?
What is important about ethnic segmentation?
Need to focus on expanding ethnicities
3 largest minorities in US: Hispanic, African, Asian
What’s important about Family Life Cycle Segmentation?
Consumption patterns among people of same age/gender may differ because they’re in different stages of the family life cycle
What is the Family Life Cycle?
A series of stages determined by a combination of age, marital status, and the presence or absence of children