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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Chapter 8 1. Explain what market segmentation is and when to use it. Market segmentation is to aggregate potential buyers into groups that have common needs and will respond similarly to a marketing action. Market segments are the relatively similar groups of potential buyers that result from the market segmentation process. The existence of different market segments has caused firms to use a marketing strategy of product differentiation. This strategy is related to using different marketing
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COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT Subject : Service Sector Management Topic : Market Segmentation (Partial fulfillment for T.Y.B.M.S Course (Semester V) for the year 2010-2011.) Prof In charge : Prof . Rishikesh Kangale () Sign: _________ MARKET SEGMENTATION Market Segmentation is defined as the process of splitting customers‚ or potential customers‚ in a market into different groups‚ or segments‚ within which the customers share a similar level
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3.0 Target Market Segmentation To identify and deconstruct the market of the Hair Salon‚ particular importance was placed on psychographic characteristics of personality‚ lifestyle and motives (Elliot‚ Ferrell‚ Paladino‚ Pride‚ Rundle-‐ Thiele‚ & Waller 2006‚ p. 120). A behavioural analysis was also conducted. Brief
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Segmentation and Target Market The three major players in the soft drink market are PepsiCo‚ Inc.‚ the Coca-Cola Company‚ and the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group (Change Lab Solutions‚ n.d.). All of them use effective market segmentation to target specific markets. Effective target marketing requires that marketers‚ segment the market‚ by identifying and profiling to find a distinct group of buyers who differ in their wants and needs (Kotler & Keller‚ 2012). They target their specific product to one
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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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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 Bases for Segmentation in Consumer Markets Consumer markets can be segmented on the following customer characteristics. * Geographic * Demographic * Psychographic * Behavioralistic 1. Geographic Segmentation The following are some examples of geographic variables often used in segmentation. Region: by continent‚ country‚ state‚ or even neighborhood Size of metropolitan area: segmented according to size of population Population density: often classified as urban‚
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the fundamental problem of market segmentation and target selection. Ford’s problem does not fit the ‘textbook’ segmentation process since it developed the Ka before determining a target market for it. However‚ this is frequently the case‚ for example‚ when a firm copies a successful product idea (like Ford did) or wants to introduce an existing product in a new market to expand its geographical coverage. The case illustrates that even in this situation‚ market segmentation and target selection are
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Guinness and we researched there company website www.Guinness.com Q1) Market segmentation is the process of dividing a market up into different groups in order to create different products to meet specific needs. Guinness represents several layers of segmentation‚ youth‚ gender wealth and lifestyle. We feel that Demographic Segmentation is the most relevant to our chosen product Guinness. Demographic Segmentation divides the market into groups based on demographic variables such as age‚ gender‚ family
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