Question | Answer |
Product related segmentation | is differentiated by the consumer's relationship with the product. This often relates to the benefits sought by the consumer from the product, user segments (such as heavy users of a product), and brand loyalty. |
B2C | Consumers who will buy and use the product or service
Retailers |
Geographic segmentation | means segmenting markets by region of the country, city or county size, market density, or climate |
Market segmentation | Process of dividing the market into subgroups of consumers (segments) |
Product application positioning strategy | Positioning a product based off of how it is used as the best option for that specific task and use |
Customer | is the individual (or company) who buys the product from a business. In some transactions they are the same person, but in other transactions, they are different entities. |
Market density | Market density is the number of people or businesses within a certain area. |
Demographic segmentation | uses categories such as age, education, gender, income, and household size to differentiate among markets. This form of market segmentation is the most common because demographic information is easy to obtain. |
Psychographic segmentation | is market segmentation by personality or lifestyle. People with common activities, interests, and opinions are grouped together and given a lifestyle name. |
Positioning maps | tool for marketers because they create a picture of how different competitors are positioned in the market based on the key criteria that strongly influence customer decisions in the target segment. |
Concentrated Marketing | also called niche marketing, is a strategy that targets only one or a few very defined and specific segments of the consumer population. The goal is to achieve high penetration among the narrowly defined target segments. |
Positioning | Strategic activity where marketers identify the distinctive place they want a product or service to hold in the minds of a target market segment |
Targeting | Selection of a segment or segments of the market on which marketers will focus |
Target Market | is the specific group of customers (which could be organizations or individual consumers) toward which a firm directs its marketing efforts |
Consumer | is the individual who uses the product. |
Price positioning strategy | Positioning the product as the lowest cost or best value; e.g. all economy brand such as Walmart |
Differentiated marketing strategy | is one in which the company decides to provide separate offerings to each different market segment that it targets. It is also called multisegment marketing |
Competition positioning strategy | Positioning the product against a competitor; e.g. Verizon vs AT&T |
What should Positioning statement include? | Target market, brand name, key points of differentiation, The product and service category or frame of reference in which you are establishing this market position, reasons why customers should believe the positioning claims |
Product user positioning strategy | Positioning a product for a specific user group |
B2B | Businesses that consume the product or service as part of their operations or use the product as part of their offering to consumers |
Quality positioning strategy | Positioning the product as the highest quality; high-end brands such as Ritz-Carlton |
Undifferentiated marketing | also called mass marketing, involves marketing to the entire market the same way. Undifferentiated marketing effectively ignores segmentation and instead generates a single offering and marketing mix for everyone. |
Positioning statement | is one sentence that concisely identifies the target market and what you want customers to think about your brand. |
Product category positioning strategy | Positioning a product within a product category where there is strong recognition for the category and brand |
Product attributes positioning strategy | Positioning based on a characteristic that defines a product and will influence the customer's decision to purchase. E.G.2:1 shampoo and conditioner |
Micromarketing | is a targeting strategy that focuses even more narrowly than concentrated marketing. It caters to the needs of individuals (individual marketing) or very small segments in a targeted geography (local marketing) |