6 Market Segmentation and Positioning Positioning is not what you do to a product; it is what you do to the mind of a prospect. Ries and Trout (1972) Learning outcomes After reading this chapter‚ you will be able to: ✔ Describe the principles of market segmentation and the STP process. ✔ Explain the characteristics and differences between market segmentation and product differentiation. ✔ Explain how market segmentation can be undertaken in both consumer and business-to-business
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MARKET EFFICIENCY. Introduction. What is an "efficient" market? Can you say that the stock market in Zimbabwe is efficient?. Definitely our stock market is very small relative to others. For example‚ the ZSE carries only 75 counters‚ whereas the Johannesberg Stock Exchange (JSE) has more than five thousand firms‚ yet by world standards‚ even the JSE is still regarded as an "emerging market". So you can see that there are very few players on our ZSE‚ thus very little competition among the investors
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Market Structures Objectives: To define market and market structures To describe the differences of the different market structures Market We usually think of a market as a place where some sort of exchange occurs; however‚ a market is not really a place at all. A market is the process of exchanging goods and services between buyers and sellers. Ruffin & Gregory (1997) defines a market as an established management that brings buyers and sellers together to exchange particular goods and
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I. MARKET STRUCTURE We can classify firms by the roles they play in the target market: leader‚ challenger‚ follower‚ or nicher. Suppose a market is occupied by the firms shown in Figure 1.1. Forty percent of the market is in the hands of a market leader; another 30 percent is in the hands of a market challenger; another 20 percent is in the hands of a market follower‚ a firm that is willing to maintain its market share and not rock the boat. The remaining 10 percent is in the hands of market nichers
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Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics The Chinese wine market: a market segmentation study Hong Bo Liu Breda McCarthy Tingzhen Chen Shu Guo Xuguang Song Article information: Downloaded by INTI UNIVERSITY COLLEGE At 02:00 17 October 2014 (PT) To cite this document: Hong Bo Liu Breda McCarthy Tingzhen Chen Shu Guo Xuguang Song ‚ (2014)‚"The Chinese wine market: a market segmentation study"‚ Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics‚ Vol. 26 Iss 3 pp. 450 - 471 Permanent link to this
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Market segmentation Introduction Market segmentation is a marketing strategy that is one of steps goes into defining the selection of consumers who have common need and will assist consumers with products that satisfy their individual sets of needs and buying practices. The purpose of market segmentation is to guide the consumer purchases‚ businesses are offering through marketing and sales program to maintain sales and growth of the business to survive from competitive market industry. In order
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How are target markets selected? The selection of target markets is the second major phase of the STP process‚ as shown in the diagram below. (Where STP stands for segmentation‚ targeting and positioning.) As shown‚ firms initially segment the market and‚ as part of this process‚ construct segment profiles for each segment. Included in a segment profile is a detailed description of the segment‚ along with various size and profit measures. Using this information in conjunction with the firm’s
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DIRECT MODE OF EXPORTING Choosing the best route to market entry is to strategically maximise sales and also understanding of market (customer).The direct mode of entry to the beinjing(china) market would be better because there are vast majority of agents ‚distributors and wholesalers in the Beijing market . Beijing ’s total population has topped 17.4 million‚ including just over 12 million official residents in the household register and 5.4 million in the floating population‚ said Zhang Yunli
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Certificate IV in Marketing - Profile the Market Assessment activity I 1.1 Assume that you have been asked to identify new marketing opportunities for your organization or an organization you have researched. Create a profile of the organisation using the table… Start by considering your organisation’s current performance What is the organisation’s core business? - IT in Hospitality – Hotel Software & Restaurant Management Systems. What are its core products/ services? -POS – Point
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Behavioral Approaches to Marketing Planning. There is no commonly accepted definition or approach to marketing planning. This is because of a number of problems that pepper the marketing planning literature relating to the size of an organization‚ the market or sector in which it exists‚ its culture‚ and the human beings that work within it. There is a huge body of research that has considered marketing planning and its models‚ structures and processes‚ theory and typologies. The only one thing that is
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