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Dividing market into  smaller groups with similar needs, characteristics or behaviours, that might require seperate marketing strategies or mixes

Most common Market segments are :

Geographic segmentation

Demographic segmentation

Psychographic segmentation

Behavioral segmentation
.

The process of evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter.

Targeting broadly >   -  >  -  > - > >>>>> Targeting narrowly


Undifferentiated (mass)marketing  > >   Differentiated

(segmented)marketing > >  Concentrated (niche) marketing > >

Micromarketing (local/individual) marketing

                                                  
                     

A market-coverage strategy in which a firm decides to ignore

market segment differences and go after the whole market with

one offer.

A market-coverage strategy in which a firm decides to target

several market segments and designs separate offers for

each.

A market-coverage strategy in which a firm goes after a large

share of one or a few segments or niches.

The practice of tailoring products and marketing programs to the needs and wants of specific individuals and local customer groups – includes local marketing and individual marketing.

Local marketing

Tailoring brands and promotions to the needs and wants of local customer groups – cities, neighbourhoods, and even specific stores.

Individual marketing

Tailoring products and marketing programs to the needs and preferences of individual customers – also labelled “markets-of-one marketing,” “customized marketing,” and “one-to-one marketing.”

The major marketing mix tools are classified into four broad groups, called the four P’s of marketing:

Product – To deliver on its value proposition, the firm 
                must first create a need-satisfying market 
                offering.

Price – It must decide how much it will charge for the      
            offering and,

Place – how it will make the offering available to target
             consumers.

Promotion – It must communicate with target 
                    consumers about the offering and persuade them
                    on  its merits.

Differentiation:
Actually differentiating the market offering to create superior customer value.

Positioning:
Arranging for a market offering to occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target customers.

3 steps for Differentiation + Positioning

1.Identifying a set of possible differentiation that create competitive advantage

2.Choosing advantages upon which to build a position

3.Selecting an overall positioning strategy.

Types of channel intermediaries

Upstream marketing channel partners

Set of firms that supply the raw materials, components, parts, information, finances, and expertise needed to create a product or service.

Downstream marketing channel partners

Channels that look forward toward the customer (Wholesalers and Retailers) and form a vital connection to the firm and its customers.

The course of a product’s sales and profits over its lifetime.

Strategies:

Product development:

Finding + developing a new product idea, sales are zero.
Introduction:

Slow sales growth as product is introduced in the market.
Growth:

Rapid market acceptance and increasing profits.
Maturity:

Slowdown in sales growth because product has achieved.
Decline:

Sales fall off and profits drop.

Line extensions

Extending an existing brand name to new forms, colours, sizes, ingredients, or flavours of an existing product category.

Brand extensions

Extending an existing brand name to new product categories.

Multiband

Companies often introduce additional brands in the same category.

New brands

When a company enters a new product category for which none of the company’s current brand names are appropriate.

Brand’s positioning must be continuously communicated to consumers (advertising, personal experiences with the brand, word of mouth, company web pages)

Company needs to train its people to be customer centred (employees have to life the brand)

Company needs to periodically audit its brands strengths and weaknesses (SWOT)

Social, Technical, Economic, Political

Useful tool to understand risks associated with market

growth or decline, and as such the position, potential and

direction for a business.

Business measurement tool, looking at factors external of the

organization.

Core product

“What is the buyer really buying?”
When designing products, marketers must first define the core, problem-solving benefits or services that consumers seek.

Actual product

Product planners need to develop product and service features, design, a quality level, a brand name, and packaging.

Augmented product

Company offers additional customer service and benefits around the product.

Consumer product
Product bought by final consumer for personal consumption.

Convenience product
Consumer product that customers usually buy frequently, immediately, and with a minimum of comparison and buying effort.

Shopping product
Consumer product that the customers, in the process of selection and purchase, characteristically compare on such bases as suitability, quality, price, and style.

Specialty product
Consumer product with unique characteristics or brand identification for which a significant group of buyers is willing to make a special purchase effort.

Unsought product
Consumer product that the consumer either does not know about or knows about but does not normally think of buying.

Industrial product
Product bought by individuals and organizations for further processing or for use in conducting a business.

Cost based pricing

Setting prices based on the costs for producing, distributing, and selling the product plus a fair rate of return for its effort and risk.

Cost-plus pricing

Adding a standard markup to the cost of the product.

Break-even pricing (target profit pricing)

Setting price to break even on the costs of making and marketing a product; or setting price to make a target profit.

Channel level:

The number of intermediary levels indicates the length of a channel. Each layer of marketing intermediaries that performs some work in bringing the product and its ownership closer to the final layer is a channel level.

Direct marketing channel
A marketing channel that has no intermediary levels.

Indirect marketing channel
A channel containing one or more intermediary levels.

A greater number of levels means less control and greater channel complexity.

World region or country - Noth America, Western Europe etc.

Country region- Pacific, Mountain, West North Central etc.

City or metro size- under 5.000; 5.000-20.000; etc.

Density- Urban, suburban, ex-urban, rural etc.

Age

Gender

Family size- 1-2; 3-4, 5+

Family life cycle-young, single; (un)married with(out) children etc.

Income- under 20.000€, 20.000-30.000€, ..., 250.000 and over

Occupation- Professional and technical; manager, officals and proprietors; sales, crafspeople; supervisors; farmers; retired; students etc.

Education Grade shool.. high school graduate, college etc.

Religion

Race- Asian, Hispanic, Black, White

Generation- Baby boomer, Generation X, Millenials

Nationality

Social class- lower lowers, upper lowers, working class, middle class, upper middles, lower uppers, upper uppers

Lifestyle- achievers, strivers, survivors

Personality- compulsive, gregarious, authorican, ambitious

Occasions-regualar, special, hiliday, seasonal

Benefits- quality, service, economy, conveniance, speed etc.

User status -nonuser, exuser, potential user, first-time user etc.

User rates- light user, medium user, heavy user

Loyality status- none, medium, string, absolute

Readiness stage- (un)aware, informed, interested etc.

Attitude toward product enthuastic... indifferente.. etc.