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Chp. 6 Marketing
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Market Segmentation | Dividing a market into smaller groups with distinct needs, characteristics, or behaviors that might require separate marketing strategies or mixes. |
| Market Targeting | The process of evaluating each market segment's attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter. |
| Differentiation | Actually differentiating the market offering to create superior customer value. |
| 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. |
| Demographic Segmentation | Dividing 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 Segmentation | Dividing a market into different age and life-cycle groups. |
| Gender Segmentation | Dividing a market into different groups based on gender. |
| Income Segmentation | Dividing a market into different income groups. |
| Psychographic Segmentation | Dividing a market into different groups based on social class, lifestyle, or personality characteristics. |
| Behavioral Segmentation | Dividing a market into groups based on consumer knowledge, attitudes, uses, or responses to a product. |
| Occasion Segmentation | Dividing the market into groups according to occasions when buyers get the idea to buy, actually make their purchase, or use the purchased item. |
| Benefit Segmentation | Dividing the market into groups according to the different benefits that consumers seek from the product. |
| Intermarket Segmentation | Forming segments of consumers who have similar needs and buying behavior even though they are located in different countries. |
| Target Market | A set of buyers sharing common needs or characteristics that the company decides to serve. |
| Undifferentiated (mass) Marketing | A market-coverage strategy in which a firm decides to ignore market segment differences and go after the whole market with one offer. |
| Differentiated (segmented) Marketing | A market-coverage strategy in which a firm decides to target several market segments and designs separate offers for each. |
| Concentrated (niche) Marketing | A market-coverage strategy in which a firm goes after a large share of one or a few segments or niches. |
| Micromarketing | The practice of tailoring products and marketing programs to the needs and wants of specific individuals and local customer groups - includes local marketing and individual marketing. |
| Local Marketing | Tailoring brands and promotions to the needs and wants of local customer groups - cities, neighborhoods, and even specific stores. |
| 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. |
| Competitive Advantage | An advantage over competitors gained by offering greater customer value, either through lower prices or by providing more benefits that justify higher prices. |
| Value Proposition | The full positioning of a brand - the full mix of benefits upon which it is positioned. |
| Positioning Statement | A statement that summarizes company or brand positioning - it takes this form: To (target segment and need) our (brand) is (concept) that (point-of-differnce). |