| Question | Answer |
| Market density | Market density is the number of people or businesses within a certain area. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Competition positioning strategy | Positioning the product against a competitor; e.g. Verizon vs AT&T |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Market segmentation | Process of dividing the market into subgroups of consumers (segments) |
| Product category positioning strategy | Positioning a product within a product category where there is strong recognition for the category and brand |
| 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) |
| B2B | Businesses that consume the product or service as part of their operations or use the product as part of their offering to consumers |
| Positioning statement | is one sentence that concisely identifies the target market and what you want customers to think about your brand. |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| Quality positioning strategy | Positioning the product as the highest quality; high-end brands such as Ritz-Carlton |
| 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 |
| Price positioning strategy | Positioning the product as the lowest cost or best value; e.g. all economy brand such as Walmart |
| Product application positioning strategy | Positioning a product based off of how it is used as the best option for that specific task and use |
| Consumer | is the individual who uses the product. |
| Product user positioning strategy | Positioning a product for a specific user group |
| Geographic segmentation | means segmenting markets by region of the country, city or county size, market density, or climate |
| 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 |
| Psychographic segmentation | is market segmentation by personality or lifestyle. People with common activities, interests, and opinions are grouped together and given a lifestyle name. |
| 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. |
| B2C | Consumers who will buy and use the product or service
Retailers |
