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RMU Marketing Ch 7
RMU marketing Quiz Ch 7
Question | Answer |
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Positioning | Arranging for a market offering to occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target consumers. |
Geographic Segmentation | Dividing a market into different geographical units such as nations, states, regions, counties, cities, or neighborhoods. |
Market segmentation | The process that companies use to divide large heterogeneous markets into small markets that can be reached more efficiently and effectively with products and services that match their unique needs. |
Demographic segmentation | Divides the market into groups based on variables such as age, gender, family size, family life cycle, income, occupation, education, religion, race, generation, and nationality. |
Age and life-cycle stage segmentation | The process of offering different products or using different marketing approaches for different age and life-cycle groups. |
Gender segmentation | Divides the market based on sex (male or female) |
Income segmentation | Divides the market into affluent or low-income consumers |
Psychographic segmentation | Divides buyers into different groups based on social class, lifestyle, or personality traits |
Behavioral segmentation | Divides buyers into groups based on their knowledge, attitudes, uses, or responses to a product Occasions Benefits sought User status Usage rate Loyalty status |
Multiple segmentation | Identifies smaller, better-defined target groups |
Geodemographic segmentation | Multivariable segmentation that divides groups into consumer lifestyle patterns |
Intermarket segmentation | Divides consumers into groups with similar needs and buying behaviors even though they are located in different countries |
Undifferentiated marketing | Targets the whole market with one offer |
Differentiated marketing | Targets several different market segments and designs separate offers for each |
Micromarketing | The practice of tailoring products and marketing programs to suit the tastes of specific individuals and locations |
Local marketing | Tailoring brands and promotion to the needs and wants of local customer groups |
Individual marketing | Tailoring products and marketing programs to the needs and preferences of individual customers |
Product position | The way the product is defined by consumers on important attributes—the place the product occupies in consumers’ minds relative to competing products. i.e. Perceptions Impressions Feelings |
Competitive advantage | An advantage over competitors gained by offering consumers greater value, either through lower prices or by providing more benefits that justify higher prices |
In general, a company should only enter a segment when it can | Offer superior value and gain advantage over customers. |
Business marketers do not segment the market by | Brand personalities |
Marketers must be careful to guard against this when using age and life cycle segmentation | Stereotyping |
This reason would NOT make segmentation less attractive to a company | Concentrated Market |
When a company serves the common needs of music and artists to 55 year old baby boomers it is called | Target marketing |