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marketing ch4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| market | a group of potential customers with similar needs who are willing to echange something of value with sellers offering various goods or services-- that is, ways of satisfying needs |
| generic market | a market with broadly similar needs-- and sellers offering various, often diverse, ways of satisfying those needs |
| product market | a market with very similar needs and sellers offering various close substitute ways of satisfying those needs |
| market segmentation | two step process of naming broad product-markets and segmenting these broad markets in order to select target markets and suitable marketing mixes |
| segmenting | aggregating process-- clustering people with similar needs into a market segment |
| market segment | homogeneous group of customers who will respond to a marketing mix in a similar way |
| single target market approach | segmenting the market and selecting one of the homogeneous segments as the firm's target market |
| segmenting the market and choosing two or more segments then treating each as a separate target market needing different marketing mixes | |
| combined target market approach | combining two or more submarkets into one larger target market as a basis for one strategy |
| combiners | try to increase the size of their target markets by combining two or more segments |
| segmenters | aim at one or more homogeneous segments and try to develop a different marketing mix for each |
| qualifying dimensions | dimensions relevant to including a customer type in a product market |
| determining dimensions | dimensions that actually affect the customer's purchase of a specific product or brand in the product market |
| clustering techniques | try to find similar patterns within sets of data |
| Customer Relations Management (CRM) | the seller fine-tunes the marketing effort with information from a detailed customer database |
| positioning | refers to how customers think about specific brands in a market |