Term | Definition |
80/20 rule | 80% of your sales account from 20% of your customers |
Demographic segmentation | Easiest way to go (breaking down into different demographics)
Based on some objective, physical, measurable, or other classification attribute (gender,race,age,income,birth era,occupation)
EX: unclear age demographic with baby boomer era (age denial) |
Geographic segmentation | Where you live has a big factor of what you do and what you consume.
2 main segments are Climate, and taste & preferences.
Oldest way to segment market. |
Volume Segmentation | How much you consume (heavy, light/moderate, or non-user
Can't forget about heavy user
Must encourage light/moderate users to consume more
Don't market towards non-users |
Psychographic segmentation | Hardest segmentation strategy, requires most research
Newest way to segment. Quantitative
conduct AIO research (activities,Interests,opinions)
lifestyle Ads will appeal to people who lead that lifestyle and the people who want to lead that lifestyle |
convenience goods | Inexpensive with wide distribution, requires little effort to buy
Non willing or unnecessary to compare prices
EX) toothpaste, ketchup |
Sampling: probability vs. non-probability | Probability- everyone in population has an equal chance to be chosen to participate in survey
Non-probability- not everyone in population has same and equal chance to participate |
Characteristics of services: inseparability, intangibility ********** | Inseparability-
impossible to separate the service you buy and the person providing the service
Intangibility-
difficult to understand/evaluate by customers
not physical product, must tangibalize it
EX) doctor graduate certificate |
Characteristics of services: variability, perishability | Perishability-
unable to physically store a service
must watch the demand and create a demand management plan
EX) airlines can't make money on empty seats once plane is gone
Variability-
varying or different levels of service each time |
Primary vs. Secondary data | Primary data- go research and create data yourself
Secondary data- researching on data already created (do first)
- not category specific or problem specific |
Observation | Weakest technique and only measures physical behavior
Can be qualitative and quantitative |
Focus Group | a group discussion about to gather information and opinions on products |
Survey | |
In-depth interview | one-on-one interview and qualitative |
Ethnographic research | researchers go into the natural habitat and study in it (observation and qualitative |
Likert scale | 1-5 attitude measurement scale
Most used in marketing research |
Semantic differential scale | 1-7 attitude measurement scale (not as popular as Likert) quantitative |
Open-ended vs Close-ended | Open-ended questions: your own opinion, in your own words, used with qualitative data
Close-ended questions: researchers give answers for you to choose and quantitative |
Experiment | least used technique and quantitative |
Benefit Segmentation | Segments naturally evolve in the market place (naturally form)
Based on benefits people seek when buying
Sometimes marketer can misidentify benefits people seek
Some problems aren't worth solving |
Hybrid segmentation | using more than one way to segment markets (majority of marketers use this) |
MARS | Measurability, Accessibility, Responsiveness, and Substantialness |
(M)easurability (MARS) | how many markets exist and how they differ? |
(A)ccessibility (MARS) | economic- enough money to compete
legal- can you legally pursue target market?
distribution channel- how a product is delivered to the market |
(R)esponsiveness (MARS) | will target market respond favorably? buy and keep buying |
(S)ubstantialness (MARS) | is it large enough for company to reach sales and profitability goals? |
Majority Fallacy | "The biggest market is always the best to target"
not true because market is already saturated with competition |
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AIO research | Activities,interests, opinions
Lifestyle ads will appeal to people who lead that lifestyle and to people who want that lifestyle
Not all products are lifestyle products, lifestyle products are what people see |
Positioning strategies (1-3) | 1) product differences, how is your products different from the rest
2) Features and benefits
3) Positioning by product user (lifestyle segmentation used along with this) |
Positioning strategies (4-5) | 4) Products Usage, how to/when to use product
5) Positioning against competition
comparative advertising, usually done by underdog |
Test Market | Most popular type of experiment
Going to a real city and measuring changes
"what happens in Denver if we decrease price of upgrade product" |
5 reasons NOT to test market | 1) product is a Fad
2) short success life
3) getting burned by sabotage in the past
4) cannot afford to test market
5) easily copied by competition |
Concentrated segmentation | have segmented market and several segments exist, but you decide to concentrate only on 1 segment |
Mass customization | Customize your product the way that customers want it.
Treating single customer as market
Most popular with Generation Y |
Multiple Segmentation | Pursues many different segmentations with many different markets.
Always the way to go because you want to dominate all categories. |
Problem inventory analysis | Need to figure out what's motivating people to buy
Asking what people don't like about the product rather than what they do like
Find the weakness within the product |
Projective technique | requires a lot of creativity for researcher to use
When to use:
- when respondents don't give an honest answer
- when asking very personal questions
- when asking what someone else would do in a certain situation
Most famous is ink blot and cartoon |
Positioning research steps | 1) research and determine most important product characteristics chosen by customers
2) based on these characteristics, how do competitors rank
3) how do we rank on those characteristics |
Mass Marketing (Undifferent Marketing | There is no difference in how consumers want their product.
Want product exact same way and not a good marketing strategy |
Multiple segmentation | many products pursuing many different product markets
Different uses for the same product |
Services defined: | Generic- no difference between product and service offered
Business- service an act or performance that is tangible and has no lasting results
Continuum- What we buy is a combination of a good and service |
Internal Marketing | marketing towards your employees |
Technical base vs Functional base | Technical base- how well was the service provided
Functional base- attitude of the service provider |
shopping goods | Going to look around for specific style/type/price
Comparing with other similar products
More expensive and more important to buyer |
specialty goods | Luxury, more expensive, more exclusive
Brand loyalty, no substitutes (this brand or no brand)
Most time and effort looking for best product and price |
Unsought goods | Something needed in the future, but have not thought about it
EX) a will, funeral plans for self, graveyard plot, going to dentist |
Stages in the new product development process (1-2) | 1) Idea Generation-
Employees generate ideas for new product
No ideas are bad ideas so all are kept
2) Screen Ideas-
Decide to go through or get rid of ideas
Screening criteria must be generated to decide if the product will be successful or not |
Stages in the new product development process (3-4) | 3) Business analysis-
Forecasting of sales and profitability
concept testing- product not yet made but detailed drawings made
4) Product Development-
Develop model or prototype of product
Create more of prototype but not yet full scale production |
Stages in the new product development process (5-6) | 5) Test marketing-
Can be extremely costly
The only step that can be skipped in process
6) Commercialization (most expensive step)-
Full scale production, mass advertisement, distribution around country/world
50/50 chance the product fails |
Steps in marketing research process in notes | |