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Target Marketing Process: Linking Customer Needs to Marketing Action
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Target Marketing Process: Linking Customer Needs to Marketing Action

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Market segmentation links market needs to an Market segmentation links market needs to an organization’s marketing programorganization’s marketing program

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Segmentation

• process of dividing a larger market into smaller pieces based on one or more meaningful, shared characteristics and that will respond similarly to a marketing action

• Segmentation variables are used to divide the market into smaller slices: demographics, psychographics, behavior, etc.

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Why Segment Markets?

– One Product and Multiple Market Segments– Multiple Products and Multiple Market

Segments– Segments of One: Mass Customization– The Segmentation Trade Off: CRM versus

synergies

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Demographic Dimensions

• Age

• Gender

• Family structure

• Income and social class

• Race and ethnicity

• Geography

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Age

• Children

• Teens

• Generation X, Y

• Baby Boomers

• Elderly

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Psychographics

• Psychographic segments market in terms of shared attitudes, interests, and opinions

• Segments include demographic information such as age and income, but also includes richer descriptions

• Some organizations develop their own psychographic segments for their consumers, but others utilize national systems (VALS by SRI International)

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Segmenting by Behavior

• Behavioral segmentation slices consumers on the basis of how they act toward, feel about, or use a product– Users versus nonusers– Heavy, moderate, light users – Usage occasions

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Segmenting Industrial Markets

• Organizational demographics– firm size– number of facilities– domestic or multi-national– type of business– production technology utilized

• NAICS characteristics

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Criteria for Forming Segments

• Potential for increased profit and ROI

• Similarity of needs of potential buyers in a segment

• Difference of needs of buyers among segments

• Feasibility of a marketing action reaching segment

• Simplicity and cost of assigning buyers to markets

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Evaluating Market Segments

• A viable target segment should satisfy these requirements:– Are members of the segment similar to each other but

different from other segments?

– Can marketers measure the segment?

– Is the segment large enough to be profitable?

– Can marketing communications reach the segment?

– Can the marketer serve the segment’s needs?

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Targeting

• Evaluating Market Segments

• Developing Segment Profiles

• Choosing a Targeting Strategy

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Targeting Strategies

• Undifferentiated Marketing

• Differentiated Marketing

• Concentrated Marketing

• Customized Marketing

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Undifferentiated Marketing

• Appeals to a broad spectrum of people

• Efficient due to economies of scale

• Effective when most consumers have similar needs

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Differentiated Marketing

• Develops one or more products for each of several customer groups with different product needs

• Appropriate when consumers are choosing among well-known brands with distinctive images and it is possible to identify one or more segments with distinct needs for different types of products

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Concentrated Marketing

• Entails focusing efforts on offering one or more products to a single segment

• Useful for smaller firms that do not have the resources to serve all markets

• Example: Hard Candy

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Customized Marketing• Segments are so precisely defined that products

are offered to exactly meet the needs of each individual– Example: Levi’s Original Spin (custom) jeans, hair stylists

• Mass customization is a related approach in which a company modifies a basic good to meet the needs of an individual– Example: Gateway computers, Proctor & Gamble’s products at

Reflect.com Form Products to Be Sold into Groups

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Select Target Markets

– Criteria to Use in Picking the Target Segments• Market size

• Expected growth

• Competitive position

• Cost of reaching the segment

• Compatibility with objectives and resources

– Choose the Segments

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Targeting

• Form Products to Be Sold into Groups

• Develop a Market-Product Grid and Estimate Size of Markets

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Market-product grid showing how different Reebok shoes Market-product grid showing how different Reebok shoes reach segments of customers with different needsreach segments of customers with different needs

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Comparison of various kinds of users and nonusers for Wendy’s, Comparison of various kinds of users and nonusers for Wendy’s, Burger King, and McDonald’s restaurantsBurger King, and McDonald’s restaurants

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Positioning

• Developing a marketing strategy aimed at influencing how a particular market segment perceives a product in comparison to the competition

• Strategy may also consider creating a “barrier to entry” for competitors

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Product Positioning

• Head-to-head

• Differentiation

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Developing a Positioning Statement

• Analyze the competitors’ positions in the marketplace

• Offer a product with a competitive advantage

• Finalize the marketing mix• Evaluate the target market’s response so

modifications to the positioning strategy can be made (repositioning)

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The Brand Personality

• A Positioning Strategy attempts to create a brand personality for a product - a distinctive image that captures its character and benefits

• How do marketers determine where their products actually stand in the minds of consumers?

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Perceptual Map

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Customer Relationship ManagementUS companies spend about 75% of marketing $$

on existing customers

• CRM strategy allows a company to identify its best customers, stay on top of their needs, and increase their satisfaction

• CRM is about communicating with customers one on one

• CRM views customers as partners

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Characteristics of CRM

• Share of Customer

• Lifetime Value of the Customer

• A Greater Focus on High-Value Customers

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Steps in the CRM Process

Identify customers

Differentiate customers

Interact with customers

Customize for your customers