MARKET SEGMENTATION‚ TARGETING AND POSITIONING MARKET SEGMENTATION INTRODUCTION: - The market for any product is normally made up of several segments. A ‘market’ after all is the aggregate of consumers of a given product. And‚ consumer (the end user)‚ who makes a market‚ are of varying characteristics user and buying behavior. There are different factors contributing for varying mind set of consumers. It is thus natural that many differing segments occur within a market. In order to capture
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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: 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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populations or a particular sector of a population. Most of the marketers nowadays believed that the demographic segmentation bases are the most popular and practical segmentation bases. Kotler(1984‚ p. 255) states that “demographic variables are the most popular bases for distinguishing customer groups”‚ possibly because the ease with which this kind of data can be collected. Demographic segmentation divided the market into groups of basis variables which consists of age‚ sex‚ income‚ and social class.
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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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based on the non-demographic segmentation‚ by which he meant the classification of consumers according to criteria other than age‚ residence‚ income‚ and such. In order to serve as a basis for marketing strategy the predictive power of marketing studies based on demographics was no longer strong enough . There are other factors for example buying patterns had become far better guides to consumers’ future purchases. Effectively incorporated non-demographic segmentations could serve companies determine
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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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Graduate School of Management *Marketing Ma*nagement Question: Kotler (1988) has stated that: “The heart of modern strategic marketing can be described as STP – segmenting‚ targeting and positioning.’’ Discuss this statement using appropriate examples. Introduction Market segmentation By definition market segmentation is the division of a market into different groups of customers with similar needs. Or to express it in another way‚ market segmentation is the division of a mass market
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Segmentation strategies An effective market segmentation takes into account many different subsets in a market‚ in this case students. They are the customers that we are looking to attract and create a future for. Nipissing takes into account many different segments of the market that they can look towards when trying to focus on their marketing strategies. These strategies include things such as geography demographic‚ social‚ thoughts and feelings‚ behaviour and combined approaches i.e. psychographics
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Four bases of segmentation Geographic Collecting and analysing information according to the location of the customer or other data source. Geographic segmentation is often used in marketing‚ since companies selling products and services would like to know where their products are being sold in order to increase advertising and sales efforts there. A local shop such as a local takeaway use geographic segmentation by targeting customers within a 10 mile radius‚ they can do this by posting leaflets
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