Market Segmentation: Consumer Behavior, Ninth Edition Consumer Behavior, Ninth Edition
Market Segmentation: Consumer Behavior, Ninth Edition Consumer Behavior, Ninth Edition
Chapter Outline
What Is Market Segmentation? Bases for Segmentation Criteria for Effective Targeting of Segments Implementing Segmentation Strategies
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Market Segmentation
The process of dividing a potential market into distinct subsets of consumers and selecting one or more segments as a target market to be reached with a distinct marketing mix.
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Ryka produces sneakers that meet the special needs of womens feet.
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Discussion Question
Considering the largest bank in your colleges city or town:
How might consumers needs differ? What types of products might meet their needs? What advertising media makes sense for the different segments of consumers?
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Geographic Segmentation
The division of a total potential market into smaller subgroups on the basis of geographic variables (e.g., region, state, or city)
For example, Satarbucks coffee sells plenty of full-body coffees on the West Coast, but needed to introduce a line of Milder Dimenstions Coffees to better satisfy its East Coast counterparts.
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Demographic Segmentation
Age Sex Marital Status Income, Education, and Occupation
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Psychological Segmentation
Motivations Personality Perceptions Learning Attitudes
Harley-Davidson Video
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Psychographic Segmentation
Also known as Lifestyle Analysis Psychographic variables include attitudes, interests, and opinions (AIOs)
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I find that I have to pull myself away from e-mail. Given my lifestyle, I have more of a shortage of time than money. I like the benefits of the Internet, but I often dont have the time to take advantage of them.
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Sociocultural Segmentation
Family Life Cycle Social Class: some investment companies
appeal to upper class customers with offering them options that correspond to their wealthy status. In contrast, a financial program targeted to a lower social class might talk instead about savings accounts and certificates of deposits.
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Use-Related Segmentation
Rate of Usage
Heavy vs. Light: 25-35% of beer drinkers consumes more than 70% of total beers. So most marketers prefer to target their advertising to the heavy users of beer.
Awareness Status
Aware vs. Unaware
Brand Loyalty
Brand Loyal vs. Brand Switchers
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Usage-Situation Segmentation
Segmenting on the basis of special occasions or situations Example Statements:
Whenever our daughter Jamie gets a raise, we always take her out to dinner. When Im away on business, I try to stay at a suites hotel. I always buy my wife flowers on Valentines Day.
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Benefit Segmentation
Segmenting on the basis of the most important and meaningful benefit. Prevention of decay is the benefit sought by many toothpaste consumers. Like protection of data (Norton Antivirous), Soft skin (Olay), allergy relief (allegra), Peace of mind (Liberty Mutual Insurance)
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Differentiated
Several segments with individual marketing mixes
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