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Ch. 8 Terms

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Definition
Market   people or organizations with needs or wants and the ability and willingness to buy  
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Market Segment   a subgroup of people or organizations sharing one or more characteristics that cause them to have similar product needs  
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Market Segmentation   the process of dividing a market into meaningful, relatively similar, and identifiable segments or groups  
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Segmentation Bases (variables)   characteristics of individuals, groups, or organizations  
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Geographic Segmentation   segmenting markets by region of a country or the world, market size, market density, or climate  
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Demographic Segmentation   segmenting markets by age, gender, income, ethnic background, and family life cycle  
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Family Life Cycle (FLC)   a series of stages determined by a combination of age, marital status, and the presence or absence of children  
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Psychographic Segmentation   segmenting markets on the basis of personality, motives, lifestyles, and geodemographics  
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Geodemographic Segmentation   segmenting potential customers into neighborhood lifestyle categories  
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Benefit Segmentatation   the process of grouping customers into market segments according to the benefits they seek from the product  
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Usage-rate Segmentation   dividing a market by the amount of product bought or consumed  
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80/20 Principle   a principle holding that 20 percent of all costumers generate 80 percent of the demand  
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Satisficers   Business customers who place an order with the first familiar supplier to satisfy product and delivery requirements  
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Optimizers   business customers who consider numerous suppliers (both familiar and unfamiliar), solicit bids, and study all proposals carefully before selecting one  
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Target Market   a group of people or organizations for which an organization designs, implements, and maintains a marketing mix intended to meet the needs of that group, resulting in mutally satisfying exhanges  
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Undifferentiated Targeting Strategy   a market approach that views the market as one big market with no individual segments and thus uses a single marketing mix  
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Concentrated Targeting Strategy   a strategy used to select one segment of a market for targeting marketing efforts  
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Niche   one segment of a market  
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Multisegment Targeting Strategy   a strategy that chooses two or more well-defined market segments and develops a distinct marketing mix for each  
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Cannibalization   a situation that occurs when sales of a new product cut into sales of a firm's existing products  
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One-To-One Marketing   an individualized marketing method that utilizes customer information to build long-term, personalized, and profitable relationships with each customer  
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Positioning   developing a specific marketing mix to influence potential customers' overall perception of a brand, product line, or organization in general  
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Position   the place a product, brand, or group of products occupies in consumers' minds relative to competing offering  
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Product Differantation   a position strategy that some firms use to distinguish their products from those of competitors  
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Perceptual Mapping   a means of displaying or graphing, in two or more dimensions, the location of products, brands, or groups of products in customers' minds  
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Repositioning   changing customers' perceptions of a brand in relation to competing brands  
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