This document discusses various marketing strategies including market segmentation, mass marketing, micro marketing, and levels of micro marketing such as segment marketing, niche marketing, local marketing, and individual marketing. It provides details on criteria for good market segmentation, bases for segmentation including demographic, geographic, psychographic, and behavioral factors. Benefits and limitations of segmentation are also summarized. Overall, the document is an overview of key concepts in marketing management with a focus on market segmentation strategies.
2. Overview
• Market segmentation
• Pattern of preference segments
• Criteria for good market segment
• Basis for segmentation
• Need based segmentation process
• Benefits and limits of segmentation
3. Mass marketing and Micro marketing
• Mass marketing
An attempt to appeal to an entire market with one basic
marketing strategy utilizing mass distribution and mass
media. Also called undifferentiated marketing.
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• Micro marketing
The activity of marketing products or service directly to
particular groups of people based on information that has
been collected about them
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4. Level of micro marketing
1. Segment marketing
Group of customers who share
similar wants.
E.G : a car company decide to
target young middle-income
buyers
2. Niche marketing
Concentrating all marketing efforts on a
small but specific and well
defined segment of the population i.e.
segment is divided into sub segment
E.G: car company decide to target young
middle- income buyers who have small
family .
3. Local marketing
Targets the community around
a physical store or restaurant
i.e. target local customers. It
also referred to neighborhood
marketing.
E.G hotels target market is near
customers or city
4. Individual marketing
Customized marketing or one-
to-one marketing refers to
target particular customer
with their customized needs
and wants.
E.G. hair stylist to customer, cobbler
to customer.
5.
6. Market segmentation
“ Market segmentation is sub-dividing a market into
distinct and homogeneous subgroups of customers,
where any group can conceivably be selected as a
target market to be met with distinct marketing
mix.” Philip kottler.
“A marketing term referring to the aggregating of
prospective buyers into groups (segments) that
have common needs and will respond similarly to a
marketing action.” Investopedia definition
7. Three patterns of preference segments
• 1. Homogeneous Preferences: shows a market where all the
consumers have roughly the same preferences. The market
shows no natural segments. We would predict that existing
brands would be similar and cluster around the middle of the
scale in both sweetness & saltiness.
• 2. Diffused Preferences: At the other extreme, consumer
preferences maybe scattered throughout the space, indicating
that customers vary greatly in their preferences. The first
brand to enter the market is likely to position in the center to
appeal to the most people
• 3. Clustered Preferences: The market might reveal distinct
preference clusters, called natural market segments. The first
firm in this market has three options. It might position in the
center, hoping to appeal to all groups. It might position in the
largest market segment (concentrated marketing).It might
develop several brands, each positioned in a different
segment. If the first firm developed only one brand,
competitors would enter and introduce brands in the other
segments.
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9. 2.Substnatial
Segment should be large enough in term of sale and
profitable to serve there would be no point in wasting
marketing budget on a market segment that is
insufficiently large.
1. Measurable
Size ,purchasing power and other characteristics
should be measurable with approximate accuracy so
that strategists can then decide whether, how, and to
what extent they should focus their efforts on
marketing to this segment.
10. 3. Accessible
• The market segment should be reachable effectively,
particularly in terms of distribution and communication.
Different segments might respond better to outdoor
advertising, social media campaigns, television infomercials,
or any number of other approaches.
4.Differentiable
An ideal market segment should be internally homogeneous
(i.e. all customers within the segment have similar
preferences and characteristics), but externally
heterogeneous. Differences between market segments should
be clearly defined, so that the campaigns, products and
marketing tools applied to them can be implemented without
overlap.
11. 5 .Actionable
The firm needs to be able to implement a
distinctive marketing mix for each market
segment. The market segment must have
practical value in term of resources and their
utilization .
13. 1.Demographic segmentation
Age
Children, teen age, young, old age
Occupation
Low level job, middle level, high level
Income
Low income, middle income , high
income
Religion
Muslim , Christian , Hindus
Race
Syed,Malik,Mughal ,Rajpoot,Sawati
Nationality
American, African, Pakistani , britishers
Gender
Male, female
Generation
Old generation , new generation
Family size
Small family , large family
Family cycle
Marital status
Education
Uneducated, higher educated
16. 2. Geographic segmentation
Country
Pakistan, Australia, Iran
State or region
South India, Texas , Kashmir
Climate
According to weather pattern common to
certain geographic area
Density
Size of population
City or metro size
Islamabad, Karachi , new York
20. Life styles on basis of AIO
• Succeeder
Strong goal orientation, confidence, work ethic, organization ...
support status quo, stability. Brand choice based on reward,
prestige - the very best . Also attracted to 'caring' and protective
brands ... stress relief. (Top management)
• Aspirer
Materialistic, acquisitive, affiliative, oriented to extrinsic ... image,
appearance, charisma, persona and fashion. Attractive packaging
more important than quality of contents
• Striver
They are fun loving people who are resources constrained . They
favor stylish products that emulate the purchase of those with
greater material wealth
• Explorer
Energy - autonomy, experience, challenge, new frontiers. Brand
choice highlights difference, sensation, adventure, indulgence and
instant effect - the first to try new brands.
22. 2. Social class
• Different consumers fall in different social classes. This
depends mainly on their buying power. The buying power is
affected by the background of the customer, his income as
well as his spending habits. The customer will always buy to
maintain his social class. Thus premium brands like gucci,
longiness or others always target the Sec A segments because
they know that these would be the classes capable of buying
their products. These brands have to keep in mind both –
Lifestyle as well as social class.
24. 3. Personality
• Personality in psychographic segmentation is dependent on
both – lifestyle as well as social class. A person will have a rich
personality only if he has high buying power as well as the
taste in clothes to maintain such a lifestyle. Thus the term
“Brand personality” came into effect. The reason for that is
that different brands target different personalities. A simple
example would be if i ask you what comes in mind if i talk
about a “Harley davidson biker” more commonly known as
Hogs. They would be people unshaven, tall, manly who like to
live a rough lifestyle. That’s the personality built for harley
over time. Thus brands target their customers even based on
their personality.
25. 4. Behavioral segmentation
• Occasions
Groups individuals according to the occasions when they
purchase, use or think of buying a product.
• Benefits
Groups individuals according to the benefits they seek from
the product.
• Loyalty status
• Groups individuals according to their level of loyalty to the
product. 'Hard core loyals' always purchase the product /
brand in question. Whilst 'Soft core loyals' will sometimes
purchase another brand, and 'Switchers' will not specifically
seek out a particular brand, but rather purchase the brand
available to them at time of need, or that which was on sale.
26. User status
Every product has its nonusers, ex-users, potential users, first
time user ad regular users. A company has not to rely only on
regular users, it has to attract the other type as well.
• Usage
Customers can be segmented on the basis of usage status-
heavy users, light users, and on users of a product category.
The profiling of heavy users allows this group to receive most
marketing attention (particularly promotion efforts) on
assumption that brand loyalty among these people ill pay
heavy divides.
• Buyer readiness
Groups individuals according to their readiness to purchase
the product. This segmentation model is particularly useful in
formulating and monitoring the marketing communication
strategies employed to move consumers towards purchase of
a product or brand.
30. Need Based segmentation process
• Needs-based segmentation
• Segment identification
• Segment attractiveness
• Segment profitability
• Segment positioning
• Segment “acid test”
31. Need based segmentation
Group customers on basis of similar needs and wants
Segment identification
Determine characteristics and demographic of each segment.
Segment attractiveness
Use criteria such as growth and access to determine segment attractiveness.
Segment profitability
Determine if segment is acceptably profitable
Segment positioning
Create a value- proposition and product and price positioning strategy
Segment acid test
Story board to test segment attractiveness with positioning strategy
Marketing mix strategy
Expand positioning strategy for complete marketing mix.
32. Benefits of segmentation
• With the help of knowledge about different segments, the marketer
can better allocate the total marketing budget. Differences in
customer response to different marketing tools serve as the basis for
deciding on the allocation of market funds to different customer
groups.
• Facilitate proper choice of target market
• Management can identify new profitable segments which deserve
special attention.
• It is possible to deal with competition more effectively by using
resources more effectively.
• Appropriate service packages can be developed for each market
segment.
• Improve communication with customer .
• Allow marketing campaigns to be more cost and time efficient.
33. Limitations of segmentation
• Segmentation increases costs. When a firm attempts to
serve several market segments, there is a proliferation of
products. Cost of production rises due to shorter production
runs and product variations.
• Promotion and distribution expenditures increase when
separate programme are used for different market
segments.
• When characteristics of a market segment change,
investment made already might become useless.
• Along with segmentation, you also need to check out the
competition offered in the same segment from other
products. Getting into a segment already saturated will
mean higher costs and lesser profit margins