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What is segmentation?

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Method by which whole markets are subdivided into different segments.

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What is targeting?

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Method by which particular segments are selected.

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What is positioning?

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Method by which a brand becomes most attractive to selected segments.

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How does segmenting take place?

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Identify, analyse and describe market segments.

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How does targeting take place?

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Evaluate each and decide to go after.

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How does positioning take place?

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Design a product/service to meet a segment’s needs; develop offer and marketing mix that will create a competitive advantage in the minds of the selected target market

7
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What is the marketing concept?

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Target market –> Customer Needs –> Integrated Marketing –> Profits Through Customer Satisfaction

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What is a market?

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  • It is created when producers and consumers meet, for the purposes of exchange, online or offline
  • Contains people (or institutions) with sufficient purchasing power (actual or credit), authority and willingness to buy
  • Grey, parallel, black, illegal etc
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What happens if you define your market wrong?

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If you define your market wrong, your segmentation, targeting and positioning strategies and subsequently your offerings might be irrelevant to your customers/customer segments

10
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What is a market segment?

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A group of buyers with similar needs and wants who respond in a similar way to marketing actions

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What is a target market?

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The segments of the market you will try to reach.

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Why segment the market?

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  • Not everyone wants the same thing
  • Buyers have increasingly varied and sophisticated needs, expectations etc
  • Helps design and focus marketing programmes
  • Helps determine resource allocation
  • Allows matching demand and supply
  • Increases the efficiency and effectiveness of companies
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What segmentation rationales exist?

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  • Range of different consumer needs
  • Range of purchase behaviour
  • Range of places/channels/types of availability
  • Range of price elasticity
  • Limited competencies and capabilities in company
  • Range of competitive offerings
    Linking to needs and wants to focus marketing activities.
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What is the segmentation process?

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  1. Identify the broad market of interest
  2. Identify key buyer characteristics
  3. Cluster buyer types: identify truly differentiating dimensions, name/label the different segments
  4. Find out why they behave the way they do
  5. Make rough estimates of size, potential and cost of each segment
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What ways exist to segment the consumer markets?

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  • Profile (general) - demographic, socio-economic, geographic
  • Psychographic (domain) - lifestyle, personality, influencers and role models
  • Behavioural (specific) - benefits sought, purchase occasion, purchase behaviour, usage, perceptions and beliefs
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What are the 5Ws and 1H in terms of understanding customer segments?

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How do they use the product?

Who is involved in buying and consuming?

What are their choice criteria?

When do they buy/use the product?

Why do they buy/use the product?

Where do they buy?

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What is perceptual brand mapping?

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  • Visual representation of market, from consumers’ perspective
  • According to criteria valued by consumers
  • How consumers see their product vs competition
  • Identifies gaps in the market
  • Can show gap between how consumers see brand and how company sees it
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Why is segmentation beneficial?

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  • It is necessary to understand complexities in the market regarding existing needs and wants
  • Segmentation prepares the ground for targeting sub segments of the market with specific offerings that are tailored to service their specific needs/wants
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What levels of segmentation exist?

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Mass marketing - no segmentation

Market segmentation - significant chunk

Niche marketing - small, more profitable chunk

Micro marketing - tiny, highly specialised bit

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What variables might be used for segmentation?

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  • Geographic
  • Socio demographic
  • Customer value
  • Psychographic (lifestyle, attitudes)
  • Consumer behaviour (e.g purchase behaviour, benefit)
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What are the targeting strategies?

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  • Undifferentiated (mass) marketing: one product to entire market
  • Differentiated
  • Niche
  • One to one
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What is a differentiated marketing targeting strategy?

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  • For different segments of the market
  • Different products/or marketing mixes
  • Very common targeting strategy: pursued by most large FMCG companies, global car makers
  • Organic vs acquisition
  • Not an option for all companies
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What is a niche marketing targeting strategy?

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  • Market to one segment or a few segments - not the entire marketing
  • Maximise resource effectiveness: financial, HR, skills, knowledge, competencies
  • Particular attractiveness to one segment
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What is a one to one marketing strategy?

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  • Literally a different product/marketing mix for individual customers
  • Become possible because of advances in IT
  • Or price premium
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What are some benefits of targeting?

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High price customers only: optimises profit by maximising margin

Specific needs customers: minimise competition by satisfying needs better

Restrict distribution by area or type: erect barrier to new entrants; limit liability

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What are some problems of targeting?

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Expense - need to spend money to define your market

Excludes customers - can reduce business potential

Can increase vulnerability: paradigms can shift away from your sector

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What is positioning?

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The act of designing the company’s offering so that it occupies a meaningful and distinct position in the target consumer’s mind

Effective positioning is the act of linking products and services to the solutions that customers seek

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What are the keys to successful positioning?

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  • Clarity
  • Consistency
  • Credibility
  • Competitiveness
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What are examples of differentiators?

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  • Rational benefits
  • Emotional benefits
  • Social benefits
  • Structural benefits
30
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What are the position related strategic options?

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  • Market leader: create market
  • Market challenger: broaden market
  • Market follower: exploit market
  • Market niche player: segment market