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Market opportunity
Question | Answer |
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Target market | Group of people to whom a firm decides to directs its marketing efforts and ultimately its goods and services. |
Consumer products | Products bought by ultimate consumers for personal use. |
Business products | Goods and services purchased for use either directly or indirectly in the production of other goods and services for resale. |
Market segmentation | The division of the total market into smaller, relatively homogeneous groups |
Criteria for effective segmentation | segment must present measurable purchasing power,effectively promote and serve market segment, must be large enough to be profitable, aim at matching its marketing capabilities |
Different segmentation strategies | Geographic strategy, Demographic strategy, psychographic strategy, behavioral strategy. |
Geographic segmentation | Division of an overall market into homogeneous groups based on their locations. |
Demographic segmentation | Division of an overall market into homogeneous groups based on variables such gender, age, income, occupation, education, sexual orientation, household size, stage in the family life cycle, |
Socio economic segmentation | This is same as demographic segmentation. |
Cohort effect | Tendency of members of a generation to be influenced and bound together by significant events occurring during their key formative years. |
Generation X | The group born between 1966-1981. |
Generation Y or Millenials | Tweens /preteens |
Baby Boomers | The group of people born between 1946 and 1965. |
Engel's law | As household income increases, smaller percentage of expenditures goes for food, percentage on housing, household operations and clothing remains constant and percentage spent on items as education , recreation increases. |
Psychographic segmentation | Division of a population into groups having similar attitudes, values, lifestyles. |
VALS | VALS divides consumers into 8 psychographic categories: innovators, thinkers, achievers, experiencer, believers, strivers, makers, and survivors. |
Product-related segmentation | Division of a population into homogeneous groups based on their relationships to a product namely benefits people seek from the product, usage rate, brand loyalty toward a product. |
Target market strategy | Undifferentiated target marketing, differentiated target market, concentrated marketing, micro-marketing, one-to-one marketing |
Undifferentiated target marketing or Mass Marketing | Strategy that focuses on producing a single product and marketing it to all customers |
Differentiated marketing | Strategy that focuses on producing several products and pricing, promoting, and distributing them with different marketing mixes designed to satisfy smaller segments. |
Concentrated marketing or Niche marketing | Focusing marketing efforts on satisfying a single market segment. |
Micromarketing | Targeting potential customers at very narrow, basic levels such as by zip code, specific occupation, or lifestyle-possibly even individuals themselves. |
Positioning | Placing a product at a certain point or location within a market in the MINDS of prospective buyers. |
Positioning strategies | Attributes, price/quality, competitors, application, product user, product class. |