Target Market Example: Livescribe 2GB Pulse Smart Pen Consider the smart pen product shown in Figure 1. Figure 1. Livescribe 2GB Pulse Smart Pen. The product description from the manufacturer is presented below. Capture Everything The Pulse smart pen records audio and links it what you write. Missed something? Tap on your notes or drawings with the tip of your Pulse smart pen to hear what was said while you were writing. No Need to Lug the Laptop The Pulse smart pen automatically captures
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Market segmentation is the fundamental component of a market-based strategy. A market segment is a specific group of customers with distinctive customer needs‚ purchase behaviours and different descriptive characteristics. (Best‚ 2000) By categorizing markets into sub sectors‚ targeting marketing effort in such a way as to meet the technical and other requirements of each of these‚ organisations maybe able to secure greater competitive position than if they attempted to satisfy the general requirements
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Market segmentation is an integral part of a company’s marketing strategy. It is the process of breaking down a larger target market into smaller‚ more homogeneous groups of customers that you can more efficiently market to. Both consumer-oriented and business-oriented companies should segment customers using one of several common approaches. Demographics Demographic market segmentation is one of the most common approaches to segmenting markets. With this strategy‚ a company simply divides the
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MARKET SEGMENTATION: ORGANISATIONAL ARCHETYPES AND RESEARCH AGENDAS* Mark Jenkins & Professor Malcolm McDonald Cranfield School of Management Address for correspondence: Mark Jenkins‚ Cranfield School of Management‚ Cranfield University‚ Bedford‚ MK43 0AL‚ UK. Tel: +44 (0) 234 751122; Fax: +44 (0) 234 750070 EMail: m.jenkins@cranfield.ac.uk Paper submitted to the European Journal of Marketing‚ February 1995. The authors acknowledge the invaluable comments of Professor Martin Christopher and the
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Definition of ’Market Segmentation’ A marketing term referring to the aggregating of prospective buyers into groups (segments) that have common needs and will respond similarly to a marketing action. Market segmentation enables companies to target different categories of consumers who perceive the full value of certain products and services differently from one another. Generally three criteria can be used to identify different market segments: 1) Homogeneity (common needs within segment) 2) Distinction
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Segmentation in B2B Markets A White Paper by Paul Hague and Matthew Harrison of B2B International E-mail Web Blog info@b2binternational.com www.b2binternational.com www.b2binternational.com/b2b-blog/ WHAT IS MARKETING IF IT IS NOT ABOUT SEGMENTATION? CVS Pharmacy is one of the most successful drug store chains in America. What is the reason for this success? They understand their market and have approached it through segmentation and targeting. The company looked at its customer base
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PepsiCo vs. Market Segmentation Introduction Pepsi-Cola was founded by a druggist‚ Caleb Bradham in year 1898 (Overview‚ 2008). He came from New Bern‚ North Carolina (Overview‚ 2008). In year 1965‚ Pepsi-Cola merged with Frito-Lay in a new company named PepsiCo (Overview‚ 2008). Then‚ PepsiCo merged with Tropicana in year 1998 and also Quaker Oats Company in year 2001 (Overview‚ 2008). Those mergers have been divided in categories such as food‚ beverage and snacks. Now‚ Pepsi Brand is part of
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Segmentation and Target Market: Elio Motors Tina M Miller MKT 571 August 18‚ 2014 Jason Leonard Segmentation and Target Market: Elio Motors Introduction Paul Elio is the engineer and company CEO of an American startup automaker founded in 2008: Elio Motors. Production is slated to begin in early 2015 in Shreveport‚ Louisiana. The design of the vehicle has three wheels with all the standard convinces of a four wheeled vehicle. The selling points of this vehicle is that 90% of the parts used to produce
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MARKET SEGMENTATION‚ TARGETING AND POSITIONING MARKET SEGMENTATION When it comes to marketing strategies‚ most people spontaneously think about the 4P (Product‚ Price‚ Place‚ Promotion) – maybe extended by three more Ps for marketing services (People‚ Processes‚ Physical Evidence). Market segmentation and the identification of target markets‚ however‚ are an important element of each marketing strategy. They are the basis for
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Tasks in Market Segmentation 1. Analyze consumer product relationship 2. Investigate segmentation bases 3. Develop product positioning 4. Select segmentation strategy 5. Design marketing mix strategy The first task in segmenting the market is Analyze consumer product relationships—this entail the analysis of the affect and cognition‚ behaviour‚ and environments involved in the purchase/consumption process. 3 general approaches to this task— 1. Marketing managers may brainstorm
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