Consumer Behavior: Market Segmentation Contents Introduction 1 Concepts of Market segmentation 1 Case of a jewelry company 3 Conclusion 7 Reference 8 Introduction Market segmentation‚ as a crucial step of marketing‚ is not what you do to a product‚ but something you know about your customers. A good knowledge of your customers can enable you to yield twice the result with half the effort. Every consumer is different. Some prefer stylish products‚ while some want cheap and durable
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1. Introduction “I don’t know the key to success‚ but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” (Bill Cosby) The reason is because there are no two people that have exactly same likes and dislikes. Everybody in this world is different. Hence trying to make everyone happy at the same time merely blow the pleaser’s mind off. Taking that quote into consideration‚ it is not only true to an individual but also to every industry. A business cannot aim to sell their products to
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Risk management benefits 1. More effective strategic planning Effective strategic planning means the objectives set by the companies suit the company’s operations capabilities and the planning helps the company preserve its values and seek improvement. Risk management means coordinates activities to direct and control the organization with regard risks. The coordination between activities helps the company to communicate and understand the business activities as a whole‚ this will let
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Market Segmentation ________________________________________ Targeting a segment of the market can be a powerful strategy. It’s the concentration of marketing effort to dominate a market niche. Market segmentation is the process of identifying and targeting groups of individuals who are similar to one another. Markets can be segmented in many different ways: by product or service needs‚ by sensitivity to price‚ by geographic area‚ by demographic segment‚ or by psychographics and lifestyles. Successful
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SegmentationElaboration Geographic Segmentation Geographic segmentation involves a business dividing its market on the basis of geography. Market can be divided by geographical areas‚ such as by city‚ county‚ state‚ region (such as West Coast)‚ country‚ or international region (such as Asia). It can also be divided into rural‚ suburban‚ and urban market segments. Besides that‚ climate or total population in each area can also be the segmentation. According to The Body Shop‚ they set up the stores
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The whole idea of market segmentation is to dividing the markets into distinct groups of buyers who have distinct needs‚ characteristic or behavior or who have might require separate products or marketing mix. In KFC‚ they have considered four variables for market: 1. Geographic segmentation 2. Demographic segmentation 3. Psychographic segmentation and 4. Behavioral segmentation. 1. Geographic Segmentation Dividing the market into different geographical units such as nations‚ states‚ regions
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so we must make marketing segmentation. It means that we divide giant market into smaller segments which have the similarities. Then we can achieve more effectively with productions and services. To do this‚ we should look at 4 majors: geographical‚ demographic‚ psychographic and behavioral variables. Nestle is the world’s largest food company that did marketing segmentation very well. They also base on 4 majors variables to segment. First is the geographic segmentation. We must understand the geographical
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his/her own needs or preferences for a product‚ services‚ basket of goods. For this reason companies cannot satisfy to everybody but they look for the way to satisfy to a broad group of people. This is the cause of the existence of market segmentation. Segmentation is a marketing management technique which can help firms to find ways of establishing a competitive advantage. Marketers design a marketing mix program‚ and also its policy‚ aims to specific needs of a segment that company has chosen to
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Market Segmentation Market segmentation is a strategy which divides a target market into subset according to consumer needs and desires and applicable for the good relevant and services. It depends only on the specific characteristics of the products and this subset is divided according to the criteria of age and gender. Campaign can designed a target which specific consumer segments can desire. A successful market segmentation and differentiation can give a firm a commercial advantage. Market
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The Gap in Market Segmentation What is the point of market segmentation? Really‚ what is the point? As my Uncle Jim used to say‚ "If you throw enough dirt on the wall some of it is going to stick‚ ain’t it?" So why don’t companies just throw a bunch of good products at the people and just see who buys what‚ if anything at all? That might have worked along time ago‚ but now‚ the answer in short‚ is competition. Today‚ there are to types of companies‚ those that are profitable and those
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