STP Strategies
Market positioning Market segmentation Market targeting 3.Develop measures of segment attractiveness. 4.Select the target segment(s). 5. Develop positioning for each target segment. 6.Develop marketing mix for each target segment.
MARKET SEGMENTATION
Who is being Targeted?
Market Segmentation
Divides the market into two or more (homogeneous) sub groups based on similar expected responses to marketing mix offerings. Assumption: subgroups differ in wants/needs that require separate marketing mixes. (response elasticity-inelasticity) Process: identify bases of audience division, develop measures of sales potential (demand estimation), evaluate, select audience and position product via the marketing mix.
Geographic Region Country size City size Density Climate Demographic Age Gender Life cycle Family size Income Occupation Education . Psychographic Social class Lifestyle Personality Behavioral Purchase occasion Benefits sought User status Usage rate Loyalty status
Purchasing approaches Purchasing function organization. Situational factors Power structure. Urgency Nature of existing Specific application relationships. Size of order. General purchase policies. Personal characteristics Purchasing criteria. Buyer-seller similarity Attitudes toward risk Loyalty.
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Market Segmentation
Environmental Opportunity Analysis Connects Company Resources with Market Demand
Demand Estimation
Mass Market
(everyone) (one demand) curve
Undifferentiated Strategy
Advantages Cost Economies Disadvantages Hyper competition Majority - Fallacy Imprecise - Inefficient
a mass marketing effort, Offer one product to the total market (everybody) E.g., Coca-Cola
B. Concentrated Strategy
One Marketing Mix (one or more) products
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Segment 1 Segment 2 and subdivision 2A, 2B Segment 3
Concentrated Strategy
Choose & focus on one segment E.g., Mercedes, VW
Advantages
Disadvantages
Precise - Efficient High Risk (Knowledge of Consumer) One Market Segment Cost Economies (80-20 principle)
C. Differentiated Strategy
Stimuli Target Audience Black Box $ Segment 1
Responses
demand curve 1
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Segment 2
Q demand curve 2
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Segment 3
Q demand curve 3
Differentiated Strategy
Target two or more segments with one or more brands.
Potential Advantages: - Precision - Efficiency Potential Disadvantages: - Cost Diseconomies Potential Social Issue: - Product Proliferation
Sales Increase
Cross segments: Offer same product across different segments. E.g., Duponts Teflon
Custom Marketing
FOR REPEAT HOTEL GUESTS
Your name
One-to-one marketing Uses data based-marketing and information technology For example... GATEWAY, DELL
Counter segmentation: Consolidate several segments and launch or reposition a product to cover all segments. E.g., Nissan and Toyota
Problem Solution
Psychographic Motives, Life style Audience Characteristics Geography - Demographics - Customer Type
There is no single best way. It is a bundle.
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Market Segmentation
Benefits: Non-price focus Brand demand becomes more inelastic Operational efficiency. . for resources Disadvantages: Identifying demand elasticities Separating sub group(s) (Cannibalism) Increased costs Over fragmentation
Target Marketing
Evaluating Market Segments
Segment Size and Growth Segment Structural Attractiveness Company Objectives and Resources
Target Markets
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Target market Target market is a set of buyer sharing common needs or characteristics that the company decides to serve.
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Market Segmentation
Levels of market segmentation
Mass marketing
Segment marketing
Niche marketing
Micromarketing
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Market Positioning
Product position
The way the product is defined by consumers on important attributes the place the product occupies in consumers minds relative to competing products
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Competitive advantages
Product Differentiation Services Differentiation Channel Differentiation
Personnel Differentiation
Image Differentiation
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Value proposition: The full positioning of a brand the full mix of benefits upon which it is positioned.
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The same
More for the same
Less
More for less The same for less Less for much less
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More
Benefits
The same
Less
Positioning statement
A statement that summarizes company or brand positioning it takes this form: To (target segment and need) Our (brand) Is (concept) That (point-of-difference)
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Company
Target customer
Delivering
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Single Newly Married without children Married with children Middle age Middle age without children Older married (Empty nest) Solitary survivor Divorces Unwed w/children Singles