Class 4 | Chap 10 | Market Segmentation Flashcards
What is the least cost production paradigm?
Mass marketing that creates the largest potential market, which leads to the lowest cost, which in turn can lead to lower prices and or higher margins
Micromarketing =
Focus marketing on one of the four levels: segment, niches, local areas and individuals.
4 levels of micromarketing including description:
Market segment : A group of customers who share similar needs and wants.
Niche marketing: more narrowly defined customer group seeking a distinctive mix of benefits or values
Local marketing: focused on wants and needs of local groups
Individual marketing: one-to-one marketing
Flexible marketperceived value offering =
Flexible market offerings to all members of the segment, consists of two parts: naked solution (offering attributes and benefits that all segment members value) discretionary value options (some segments members require)
How can you characterise marketing segments?
To identify preferences:
- Homogeneous preferences: all customers roughly the same preferences
- Diffused preferences: vary greatly in their requirements
- Clustered preferences: natural market segments emerge from groups of customers with shared preferences
Grassroots marketing =
A growing trend that concentrates marketing activities on getting as close and personally relevant to individual customers as possible
What are the risks of localised marketing?
- Tendency to drive up manufacturing costs and so reduce economies scale
- Tendency to create logistical problems
- Possibility that the overall image of the brand may be put at risk
What is customerisation?
Combines operationally driven mass customisation with customised marketing in a way that empowers consumers to design the customer-perceived value offering their choice (design your own shoes).
At what descriptive characteristics are some researchers looking for segmentation?
Geographic: dividing the market in geographical units
demographic: dividing the market based on variables
and psychographic. Also look at behavioural considerations
what differences are important in global and local marketing
Regional, rural and urban characteristics are highly significant
Key Variables demographic segmentation (7)
- Age and life cycle change
- Life stage
- Gender
- Income
- The new consumer
- generation
- Social class
Why is the demographic approach so popular?
Is that they are often associated with customer needs and wants
What are the key trends in social and cultural environment?
- Grey market: constitutes an attractive target market for several perceived-value offerings
- Youth market: generation Y. declining levels of purchasing power in EU and less growth
- Ethnic market: ethnic migration and therefore pay attention to that different cultures have distinct value sets
Psychographic segmentation
using psychology and demographics to better understand consumer markets, based on 3 variables (AIO factors):
- activities
- interests
- opinions
What is VALS
Segmentation system based on psychographic measurements -> values and lifestyles. With the main dimensions: customer motivation and customer resources.. Inspired by one of 3 primary motivations: ideals, achievements and self-expression.