understanding the world of marketing market segmentation
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Understanding the World of Marketing
Market Segmentation
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Analyzing Markets► Market segmentation is a way of analyzing a market by specific characteristics in order to create a target market
► Market Segmentation: Separating larger groups into smaller groups based on certain characteristics
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Target Market
• The specific group of people to whom you are trying to sell your products or services.
• A target market is a set of individuals who share common characteristics.
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Target Market
5 Types of Market Groups:Demographic – Teachers
Psychographic – Music enthusiasts
Use-based – Athletes
Benefit – Bargain hunters
Geographic – Southerners
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Types of Segmentation:
•Demographics
• Psychographics
•Geographics
• Behavioral
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Demographics –Statistics & facts that describe a population in terms of personal
characteristics.• Age
• Gender
• Income
• Marital Status
• Ethnic Background
• Occupation
• Education, etc…
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U.S. Demographic TrendThe percentage of the Caucasian
population is declining, while other ethnic populations increase.
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Psychographics • Involves grouping people with
similar lifestyles, as well as shared attitudes, values, and opinions.• Activities
• Attitudes
• Personality & Values
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Geographics
Segmentation based on where people live
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Behavioral• Looking at the benefits desired by
consumers (status), shopping patterns, and usage rate.
• Market benefits…not just the physical characteristics of a product
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Behavioral Segmentation
• Many businesses find that the 80/20 rule applies.
• 80% of a company’s sales are generated by 20% of its loyal customers.
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Mass Marketing VS. Segmentation
• Mass Marketing
Using a single market strategy to reach all customers…not as popular as it once was
• Niche Marketing (the current trend)
Markets are narrowed down and defined
with extreme precision
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Niche Marketing
• Idea is to advertise and market products to a specific target market..... (narrow demographics)
• This is often used by small companies as it is a way of avoiding competition who may not be interested in such a small segment
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Niche Marketing
Examples:
• Gardening magazines
• Nascar
• Montessori schools
• MTV focuses on youth
• Lifetime television focuses on women
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Mass Marketing• Mass marketing strategies aim
the strategy at the whole market
• This is generally used by larger companies whose products appeal to everyone
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Mass Marketing• Examples:
• Tide detergent
• TV magazines
• HP all in one Printer/fax/copy/scanner
• (American Idol, Olympics, Super bowl)
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Mass Marketing• To Reach the Largest amount of people possible.
• Focus on high sales and low prices
• Products for everyone
• Less risky
•Marketing research costs and Advertising costs relatively low.
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Product Life Cycle• The Product Life Cycle shows the life of a product from its
conception to its death
• There are five stages in the product life cycle:
1. Research and development • the product is being developed, high
costs
2. Introduction –
• product is introduced to the market
• sales are low
• profit is negative as research and development costs are being met
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Product Life Cycle
3. Growth – Sales increase rapidly, firm starts to make a profit
4. Maturity – Sales reach their peak, profits start to decline as competition increases
5. Decline – Sales fall, profits begin to fall, the product might be taken off the market
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