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Chap 3-Target markets
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Personal demographics | Identifiable characteristics of individuals and groups of people. Includes age, sex, family size, income, occupation, and education. |
| Geographic demographics | Identifiable characteristics of towns, cities, states, regions, countries. Includes county size, city size, population density, climate. |
| bahavioral dimensions | Include purchase occasion, user status, user rate, brand loyalty. |
| Psychographics | Factors that influence consumers' patterns of lifestyle (activities, interests, opinions, social class, personality, values). |
| Conditions to identify market segments that will respond to marketing programs homogeneously | Market segments must be measurable, accessible (or reachable), and large enough to be profitable. |
| Single-variable Segmentation | Buyer behavior can be related to only one segmentation variable. |
| Mutliple-variable Segmentation | Buyer behavior can be related to more than one segmentation variable, reflecting the importance of interrelationships btw factors in defining market segments. |
| Single segment or concentration strategy | Managers decide to concentrate on one segment as a target market. |
| Multiple segmentation strategy or differentiated marketing | Managers decide to concentrate on more than one target market with corresponding mktg mixes for each. |
| Undifferentiated or mass marketing | Maagers decide to treat the total potential market as a whole. |
| Involvement | Importance that consumers attach to the purchase of a particular product. Primary determinant of how consumers reach purchase decisions. |
| High involvement | Product is perceived to be personnaly important, realtively expensive, lack of relevant information about product from consumer but offer potential great benefits. |
| Low involvement | For frequentely purchased, low-priced goods. |
| Five-stage process - high involvement decision making | Need recognition, Search for relevant information, identification/evaluation of alternatives, purchase decision, postpurchase behavior. |
| Cognitive dissonance | Mental anxiety sometimes caused by a consumer's uncertainty about a purchase he or she made: consumers continue to evaluate pros and cons of alternatives after the sale has been made. |
| Three-stage process - low involvement decision making | Need recognition, purchase decision, postpurchase behavior. |
| Three characteristics in segmenting non-consumer markets | Customer type, Customer size, buying situation. |
| Customer Type | Includes manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, govt agencies, and non profit institutions. |
| Customer Size | Based on the purchasing power of buyers rather than the number of buyers. |
| Buying Situation | Characterized as three types: new-task buying, straight rebuy, or modified rebuy. |
| New-task Buying | The task requires greater effort in gathering information and evaluating alternatives. Employed in the purchase of high-cost products that the firm has not had previous experience with. |
| Straight Rebuy | Process used to purchase inexpensive, low risk products, when previous purchases are simply reordered to replace depleted inventory. |
| Modified Rebuy | Used when the purchase situation is less complex than new-task buying and more involved than a straight rebuy. |
| Buyers (organizational buying decisions) | Individuals who identify suppliers, arrange terms of sale, and carru out the purchasing procedures. |
| Users | People within the firm who will use the product. |
| Influencers | Those individuals who establish product rewuirements and specifications based on their technical expertise or authority within the organization. |
| Gatekeepers | People within the organization who control the flow of relevant purchase-related information. |
| Deciders | The individuals who makes the final purchase decision. |
| Buying center | All the people who participate in or influence the decision-making process. The number of people making up the buying center will vary between organizations. |