Market Segmentation

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Mind Map on Market Segmentation, created by Ivanna Gregor on 11/10/2018.
Ivanna Gregor
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Market Segmentation
  1. Dividing a market into smaller segments with distinct needs, characyteristics, or behavior that might require separate marketing strategies or mixes.
    1. Geographic segmentation
      1. Dividing a market into different geographical units, such as nations, states, regions, countries, cities, or even neighbothoods.
      2. Demographic segmentation
        1. Dividing the market into segments based on variables such us age, gender, family, size, family life cycle, income, occupation, education, religion, race, generation, and nacionality.
          1. Age and life-cycle segmentation: dividing the market into different age and life-cycle groups. Customers needs, wants and demands change with age.
            1. Gender Segmentation: Dividing a market into different segments based on gender.
              1. Income segmentation: Dividing a market into different income segments.
            2. Psychographic Segmentation
              1. Dividing the market into different segments based on social class, lifestyle, or personality characteristics.
                1. Marketeers also use personality variables to segment markets.
              2. Behavioral Segmentation
                1. Divides buyers into segments based on their knowlegde, attitudes, uses, or responses to a product
                  1. occasions: Buyers can be grouped according to occasions
                    1. Occasions: Buyers can be grouped according to occasions when they get the idea to buy, actualyy make their puchase, or use the purchased itme.
                      1. Benefit Sought: A powerful form of segmentation is grouping buyers according to the different benefits that they seek from a product.
                        1. User Status: Markets can be segmented into nounusers, ex-users, potential users, first- time users, and regular usaers of a product.
                          1. Usage rate: Markets can also be segmented into light, medium, and heavy product users.
                            1. Loyalty Status: A market can also be segmented by consumer loyalty
                    2. Using Multiple segmentation bases: Marketers rarely limit their segmentation analysis to only one or a few variables only
                      1. Segmenting business markets: Consumer and bussines marketers use many of the same variables to segment their markets.
                        1. Segmenting international markets: Few companies have either the resources or the will to operate in all, or even mosr.
                          1. Companies can segment international markets using one or a combination of several variables. They can segment by geographic location, grouping location, grouping countries by regions such as Wastern Europe, the Pacific Rim, the Middle East, or Africa. Geographic segmentation asumes that nations close to one another will have many common traits and behaviors.
                            1. For example: Altought the Unites States and Canada have much in common, both differ culturally and economically from neighboring Mexico. Even within a region, consumers can differ widely.
                          2. Business buyers can be segmented geographically, demographically (industry, company size), or by benefits sought, user status, usage rate, and loyalty status. Yet business marketers also use some additional variales, such as customer operating characteristics, purchasing approaches, situational factors, and personal characteristics.
                            1. For example: American Express targets businesses in three segments: mechants, corporations, and small businesses. It has developed distinct marketing programs for each segmnet.
                      2. Targeting: the process of evaluating each market segments's attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter,
                        1. Differentiation: differentiating the market offering to create superior customer value.
                          1. Positioning: arranging for a market offering to occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds to target consumers.
                            1. Requeriments for effective segmentation: There are many ways to segment a market, but not all segmentations are effective
                              1. Measurable: The size, purchasing power, and profiles of the segments can be measured.
                                1. Accesible: The market segments can be effectively reached and saved
                                  1. Substantial: The market segment are large or profitable enough to serve
                                    1. Differentiable: The segment are conceptually distinguishable and respond differently to a different marketing mix elements and prorespond differently to a different marketing mix elements and programs.
                              2. Target market: A set of buyers sharing common needs of charactersistics that the company decides to serve
                                1. Undifferentiated (mass) marketing: A market- coverage strategy in which a firm decides to ignore market segment differences and go after the whole market with one offer
                                  1. Undifferentiated (mass) marketing
                                    1. Differentiated (segmented) marketing
                                      1. Concentrated (niche) marketing
                                        1. Micromarketing (locar or indivivual marketing)
                                    2. Differentiated (segmented) marketing: A market - coverage strategy in which a firm decides to target several market segments and designs separate offers for each.
                                      1. Concentrated (niche) marketing: A market -coverage strategy in which a firm goes after a large share of one or a few segments or niches.
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