Component 3 Flashcards
What are the 2 broad categories of markets that enterprises target?
B2C (business to consumer) and B2B (business to business)
What features differ in a B2B market?
A business customer might negotiate price more, a business customer might be buying in bulk, you might need to customise your order for a B2B customer, B2B customers might expect trade credit
What is meant by the term ‘market’?
Any place where buyers and sellers meet to trade.
Give examples of tyoes of market
Physcial, virtual, local, national, global
What is market segmentation?
ividing the market into different sections (segments) to enable the business to specifically target customers with the most appropriate products and promotions
Give 4 types of market segmentation
Demographic, Psychographic, Geographic, behavioural
Give 4 characteristics used in psychographic segmentation
social class, attitudes, lifestyle and personality characteristics
Name 9 charactersistics used in demographic segmentation
age, race, religion, gender, family size, ethnicity, income, education level, socio-economic group
Name 5 characteristics in behavioural segmentation
spending, consumption, usage, loyalty status and desired benefits
What type of segmentation looks at the social and economic characteristics of individuals and households?
demographic
What classifications are given in socio economic segmentation?
A, B, C1, C2, D, E
What type of segmentation looks at consumer’s personality traits?
Psychographic
What types of charactersitics are used in psychographic segmentation?
people’s attitudes, lifestyles and personality types
Which segmentation technique uses people’s hobbies?
Psychographic
Which type of segmentation uses consumers loyalty or product usage or frequency of consumption?
behavioural
Give 3 benefits to the enterprise of using market segmentation
Able to adapt the product, able to adapt the marketing, able to focus on and dominate one particular segment
Name 5 pricing strategies
Cost plus, skimming, premium, penetration and competitive
What is the difference between skimming and pricing stategies?
Skimming starts high and then drops the price, premium stays high
What is an advantage of skimming?
Gain high revenues to cover development costs
Who does skimming target?
Early adopters (people that are open to being the first to try something)
How does cost plus pricing work?
Set the price based on the cost + a fixed percentage for profit
Give an advantage and disadvantage of cost plus
Adv = predictable rate of profit because the price always has a fixed mark up. disadv = might lose revenue because the price is higher than competitors
Give a disadv of competitor pricing
It could result in a price war if competitors try to lower their prices
How does competitor pricing work?
Set the price around the level of the competition and then find a different way to differentiate your product