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What are the criteria that make a brand difference worth establishing?
What are the criteria that make a brand difference worth establishing?
- Innovative, popular, affordable, visible, preemptive, and superior
- Important, popular, visible, distinctive, communicable, and affordable
- Important, distinctive, superior, communicable, preemptive, and affordable (correct)
- Valued, distinctive, communicable, affordable, preemptive, and superior
What is the 'more-for-more' positioning strategy about?
What is the 'more-for-more' positioning strategy about?
- Providing the most upscale product or service and charging a higher price (correct)
- Offering the same for less
- Meeting consumers’ lower performance or quality requirements at a much lower price
- Offering more for the same price as competitors
What does the 'same for less' positioning involve?
What does the 'same for less' positioning involve?
- Offering the same for less price (correct)
- Offering more for the same price as competitors
- Providing the most upscale product or service and charging a higher price
- Meeting consumers’ lower performance or quality requirements at a much lower price
What is the essence of 'less-for-much-less' positioning?
What is the essence of 'less-for-much-less' positioning?
What does a positioning statement do?
What does a positioning statement do?
What is the 'more for less' value proposition about?
What is the 'more for less' value proposition about?
What are the major steps in designing a customer value–driven marketing strategy?
What are the major steps in designing a customer value–driven marketing strategy?
What is market segmentation?
What is market segmentation?
What is the purpose of differentiation in a customer value–driven marketing strategy?
What is the purpose of differentiation in a customer value–driven marketing strategy?
What does market targeting involve?
What does market targeting involve?
What are the major bases for segmenting consumer markets?
What are the major bases for segmenting consumer markets?
What is the primary focus of a customer value–driven marketing strategy?
What is the primary focus of a customer value–driven marketing strategy?
Which type of segmentation divides buyers based on lifestyle or personality characteristics?
Which type of segmentation divides buyers based on lifestyle or personality characteristics?
Which segmentation categorizes buyers based on their knowledge, attitudes, uses, or responses to a product?
Which segmentation categorizes buyers based on their knowledge, attitudes, uses, or responses to a product?
Which segmentation groups buyers based on when they get the idea to buy, make purchases, or use items?
Which segmentation groups buyers based on when they get the idea to buy, make purchases, or use items?
Which segmentation groups buyers based on the different benefits they seek from a product?
Which segmentation groups buyers based on the different benefits they seek from a product?
Which segmentation forms segments of consumers with similar needs and buying behaviors across different countries?
Which segmentation forms segments of consumers with similar needs and buying behaviors across different countries?
What is a set of buyers with common needs or characteristics that a company decides to serve known as?
What is a set of buyers with common needs or characteristics that a company decides to serve known as?
What is the essence of micromarketing?
What is the essence of micromarketing?
What is the primary focus of concentrated marketing strategy?
What is the primary focus of concentrated marketing strategy?
What is the key aspect of socially responsible targeting?
What is the key aspect of socially responsible targeting?
What does product positioning refer to?
What does product positioning refer to?
What is the goal of differentiation and positioning strategies?
What is the goal of differentiation and positioning strategies?
What is the fundamental requirement to build profitable relationships with target customers and gain competitive advantage?
What is the fundamental requirement to build profitable relationships with target customers and gain competitive advantage?
What are the criteria for effective segmentation analysis?
What are the criteria for effective segmentation analysis?
What factors do companies consider to choose a market-targeting strategy?
What factors do companies consider to choose a market-targeting strategy?
What are the five winning value propositions that companies can choose from?
What are the five winning value propositions that companies can choose from?
What is the purpose of a positioning statement?
What is the purpose of a positioning statement?
What does geographic segmentation involve?
What does geographic segmentation involve?
What variables are considered in demographic segmentation?
What variables are considered in demographic segmentation?
Study Notes
Market Segmentation and Targeting Strategies
- Market segmentation involves dividing the market into geographic, demographic, psychographic, and behavioral segments.
- Business markets can also be segmented by business demographics, operating characteristics, purchasing approaches, situational factors, and personal characteristics.
- Effective segmentation analysis depends on finding measurable, accessible, substantial, differentiable, and actionable segments.
- Companies evaluate segment size, growth characteristics, structural attractiveness, and compatibility with company objectives and resources to choose a market-targeting strategy.
- Market-targeting strategies range from undifferentiated (mass) marketing to micromarketing, depending on segment differences and company resources.
- Differentiation and positioning strategy involves identifying possible differentiations for competitive advantage, selecting advantages to build a position, and choosing an overall positioning strategy.
- Companies can choose from five winning value propositions: more for more, more for the same, the same for less, less for much less, or more for less.
- Positioning statements summarize the target segment and need, the positioning concept, and specific points of difference with respect to the competition.
- Designing a customer value–driven marketing strategy involves segmentation, market targeting, differentiation, and positioning.
- Geographic segmentation divides the market into different geographical units, and companies are increasingly localizing their products and services.
- Demographic segmentation divides the market based on variables such as age, life-cycle stage, gender, income, occupation, education, religion, ethnicity, and generation.
- Age and life-cycle stage segmentation is used by some companies to offer different products or marketing approaches for different age and life-cycle groups.
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Test your knowledge of market segmentation and targeting strategies with this quiz. Explore the principles of geographic, demographic, psychographic, and behavioral segmentation, and learn about different market-targeting strategies, differentiation, and positioning. Gain insights into customer value-driven marketing strategies and the importance of segment analysis in business markets.
