Chapter 8 Flashcards

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What is a market?

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People or organizations with needs/wants and the ability and willingness to buy

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What is a market segment?

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A subgroup of people or organizations sharing one or more characteristics that cause them to have similar product needs

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What is market segmentation?

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The process of dividing a market into meaningful, relatively similar, and identifiable segments or groups

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3 reasons a marketer would use market segmentation

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  • 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
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What are the 4 basic criteria in order for a market segment to be legitimate?

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Sustainability
Measurability/Identifiability
Accessibility
Responsiveness

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What is sustainability within market segments?

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A segment must be large enough to warrant developing and maintaining a special marketing mix

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What is measurability and identifiability within marketing segments?

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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

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What is accessibility within marketing segments?

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The firm must be able to reach members of targeted segments with customized marketing mixes

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What is responsiveness within marketing segments?

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Segments need not be treated separately unless one market segment responds differently to a marketing mix than other segments

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What are the 5 broad segmentation bases used by marketers?

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Geographic
Demographic
Psychographic
Benefit
Usage-Rate

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What are segmentation bases?

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Characteristics of individuals, groups, or organizations that divide a market into segments

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What is geographic segmentation?

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Segmenting markets by a region of a country or the world, market size, market density, or climate

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What is market density?

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The number of people within a unit of land

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What is demographic segmentation?

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Segmenting markets by age, gender, income, ethnic background, and family life cycle

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What are some typical characteristics of Gen Z?

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1995-2015
Work for success
Etiquette for social media
Cautious
Starting to enter workforce

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What are some typical characteristics of Millennials?

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1980-1994
Idealistic/Pragmatic
Technology-proficient
Seeking experiences
Love private brands

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What are some typical characteristics of the Baby Boomer generation?

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1946-1964
Outspend average consumer in nearly every category
Spend time and money doing whatever is necessary to maintain vitality

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What are some typical characteristics of Gen X?

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1965-1979
“Sandwich generation”
Latchkey kids
Best educated
Disloyal to brands
Skeptical of big business

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What are some typical characteristics of the Silent Generation?

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Born before 1946
Ability to quietly persevere through hardships
Were taught to play by the rules

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What’s important about gender segmentaion?

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Women drive 70-80% of purchases of consumer goods/year
Companies that have traditionally targeted women are targeting men and vice versa

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What’s important about income segmentation?

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Income influences consumers’ wants and determines their buying power

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What is disposable income?

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23
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What is discretionary income?

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24
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What is important about ethnic segmentation?

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Need to focus on expanding ethnicities
3 largest minorities in US: Hispanic, African, Asian

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What’s important about Family Life Cycle Segmentation?

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Consumption patterns among people of same age/gender may differ because they’re in different stages of the family life cycle

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What is the Family Life Cycle?

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A series of stages determined by a combination of age, marital status, and the presence or absence of children

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What is psychographic segmentation?

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Segmenting markets on the basis of personality, motives, lifestyles, and geodemographics

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What is personality and what is the ultimate descriptor?

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Reflection of a person’s traits, attitudes, and habits

Clothing

29
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What are some important motives in marketing?

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Caring for loved ones
Status

30
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What makes up lifestyle?

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The way people spend their time
The importance of things around people
People’s beliefs
Socioeconomic characteristics (income, education) of people

31
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What are geodemographcis?

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Categories based on a combination of neighborhood, lifestyle, and other demographic variables

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What is benefit segmentation?

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The process of grouping customers into market segments according to the benefits they seek from a product

Groups potential customers on the basis of their needs/wants rather than on another characteristic, such as age or gender

33
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What is usage-rate segmentation?

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Dividing a market by the amount of a product bought or consumed

First-time, light, medium, heavy users

34
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4 broad segments of the business market

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Producers
Resellers
Government
Institutions

35
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What are 6 characteristics of a company?

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Geographic location
Type of company
Company size
Product use
Customer type
Volume of purchase

36
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What are buying processes in market segmentation?

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Segmenting customers on how they buy

price, quality, technical support, and service

37
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What are 2 purchasing profiles for businesses?

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Satisficers
Optimizers

38
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What is a satisficer?

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A business that contacts familiar suppliers and place the order with the first one to satisfy product and delivery requirements

39
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What is an optimizer?

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A business that considers numerous suppliers (familiar and unfamiliar), solicit bids, and study all proposals carefully before selecting one

40
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What are the 6 steps in segmenting a market?

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  • Select a market or product category for study
  • Choose a basis or bases for segmenting the market
  • Select segmentation descriptors
  • Profile and analyze segments
  • Select Markets
  • Design, implement, and maintain appropriate marketing mixes
41
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What goes in to step 1 of segmenting a market?

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Define overall market

42
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What goes in to step 2 of segmenting a market?

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Managerial insight, creativity, and market knowledge

Product segments must meet 4 basic criteria of markets

43
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What goes in to step 3 of segmenting a market?

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Identify descriptors (specific segmentation variables)

44
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What goes in to step 4 of segmenting a market?

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Profile the market by including segment’s size, expected growth, purchase frequency, current brand usage, brand loyalty, and long-term sales and profit potential

45
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What goes in to step 5 of segmenting a market?

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This is a natural outcome of segmentation process

46
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What goes in to step 6 of segmenting a market?

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Marketing mix (4 Ps)

47
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What are 3 strategies for selecting target markets?

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Undifferentiated
Concentrated
Multisegment

48
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What is an undifferentiated targeting strategy?

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A marketing approach that views the market as one big market with no individual segments and thus uses a single marketing mix

49
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What is a concentrated marketing strategy?

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A strategy used to select one segment of a market for targeting efforts

Used for niche markets

50
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What is a multisegment targeting strategy?

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A strategy that chooses two or more well-defined market segments and develops a distinct marketing mix for each

51
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What is cannibalization in marketing?

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Occurs when sales of a new product cut into sales of a firm’s existing products

52
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What is Customer Relationship Management?

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Tracking interactions with customers to optimize customer satisfaction and long-term company profits

53
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What are 4 trends that will lead to continued growth of CRM?

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Personalization
Time savings
Loyalty
Technology

54
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What is positioning?

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Developing a specific marketing mix to influence potential customers’ overall perception of a brand, product line, or organization in general

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What does the process of positioning require?

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  • Assessing the positions occupied by competing products
  • Determining the important dimensions underlying these positions
  • Choosing a position in the market where the organization’s marketing efforts will have the greatest impact
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What is a position?

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The place a product, brand, or group of products occupies in consumers’ minds relative to competing offerings

57
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What is product differentiation?

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A positioning strategy that some firms use to distinguish their products from those of competitors

58
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What is perceptual mapping?

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A means of displaying or graphing, in two or more dimensions, the location of products, brands, or groups of products in customers’ minds

59
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What are 6 common positioning bases?

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Attribute
Price and Quality
Use or Application
Product User
Product Class
Competitor
Emotion

60
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How does a marketer use attribution to position products?

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Product is associated with an attribute, product feature, or customer benefit

61
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How does a marketer use price and quality to position products?

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May stress high price as a signal of quality of emphasize a low price as an indication of value

62
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How does a marketer use application or use to position products?

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Ex. Kahlua liqueur was advertised as having 228 different ways to use the product

63
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How does a marketer use product user to position products?

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Focuses on the personality of a type of user
ex. Gap (basic) vs. Old Navy (trendy) vs. Banana Republic (luxury)

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How does a marketer use product class to position products?

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Position the product as being associated with a particular category of products

ex. Margarine and butter

65
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How does a marketer use competition to position products?

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Part of any positioning strategy

66
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How does a marketer use emotion to position products?

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Focuses on how the product makes customers feel

67
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What is repositioning?

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Changing consumers’ perceptions of a brand in relation to competing brands