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Segmenting, Targeting and Positioning

What’s this chapter about?

Important aspects of STP marketing

STP Marketing

Segmenting

Dividing a market based on demographics, lifestyles, behavioral measures etc.

Targeting

Selecting the most appropriate market(s)

Positioning

Target marketing messages using the 4Ps

Market Segmentation

Market segmentation is the division of consumer markets into meaningful and distinct groups.

Why is Market Segmentation important?

Marketers can better define consumer needs.

Decision makers can define objectives and allocate resources accurately.

Competitive advantage.

Segmentation Base …

is a group of characteristics that is used to assign segment members.

Demographics

Psychographics

Needs

Behavioral

Demographic Segmentation

By 2030, 20% of Americans will be over 65

Half of Japan’s population will be age 50 or older by 2025

Psychographic Segmentation

Needs Segmentation

is the process of grouping customers into market segments according to the benefits they seek from the product.

Behavioral Segmentation

is the process of dividing the market by the amount of product bought or consumed.

80 / 20 principle

20% of all customers generate 80% of the demand

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Light Users Heavy Users 0.2 0.8

Targeting

Targeting is the process of evaluating the various segments and then selecting the most viable segment or segments for your product.

Four Targeting Strategies

Undifferentiated

Differentiated

Niche

Micro

Undifferentiated

This approach views the market as one big market with no individual segments and thus requires a single marketing mix.

In class discussion!

Differentiated

This approach chooses two or more well-defined market segments and develops a distinct marketing mix for each.

Niche

This approach selects one small segment of a market for targeting its marketing efforts.

Micro

This approach uses one-to-one marketing which is individualized, information sensitive, with a long-term perspective and goal of increasing customer loyalty.

Can you think of examples?

Positioning

Positioning is the placement of a product or service offering in the minds of a selected target market.

Perceptual Mapping

is the means of displaying or graphing, in two or more dimensions, the location of products, brands, or groups of products in consumers’ minds.

Perceptual Mapping cont…

Repositioning

Repositioning is changing consumers’ perceptions of a brand in relation to competing brands.

Starbucks Repositioning

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnA7n9qSB7E

On Wednesday

Segmenting, Targeting and Positioning (Part 2)