Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning Building the Right Relationships with the Right Customers
Learning Goals
Case Study Procter & Gamble
Steps in market segmentation, targeting and positioning
Definition
Segmenting Consumer Markets
Segmenting Business Markets
Segmenting International Markets
Requirements for Effective Segmentation
Target Marketing
Target Marketing
Target Marketing
Choosing a Target Marketing Strategy
Target Marketing
Positioning
Choosing a Positioning Strategy
Market Segmentation
Market Segmentation
Developing a Positioning Statement
Communicating the Positioning
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Segmentation, targeting and positioning. Building the right relationships with the right customers. Chapter 7

1. Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning Building the Right Relationships with the Right Customers

Chapter 7

2. Learning Goals

1. Learn the three steps of target marketing,
market segmentation, target marketing, and
market positioning
2. Understand the major bases for segmenting
consumer and business marketing strategy
3. Know how companies identify attractive
market segments and choose target
marketing strategy
4. Realize how companies position their
products for maximum competitive
advantage in the marketplace
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3. Case Study Procter & Gamble

Case Study
Procter & Gamble
• Sells multiple brands
within the same product
category for a variety of
products
• Brands feature a
different mix of benefits
and appeal to different
segments
• Has also identified
different niches within
certain segments
• Product modifications
are useful: Tide offers
seven different product
formulations to serve
different niches’ needs
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4. Steps in market segmentation, targeting and positioning

Market Segmentation
Identify bases for segmenting the market
Develop segment profiles
Target Marketing
Develop measure of segment
attractiveness
Select target segments
Market Positioning
Develop positioning for target segments
Develop a marketing mix for each segment
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Goal 1: Learn the three steps of target marketing

5. Definition

Market Segmentation:
Dividing a market into distinct
groups with distinct needs,
characteristics, or behavior who
might require separate products or
marketing mixes.
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Goal 2: Understand the major bases for segmentation

6. Segmenting Consumer Markets

Geographical segmentation
Demographic segmentation
Most popular segmentation
Psychographic segmentation
Lifestyle, social class, and
personality-based segmentation
Behavioral segmentation
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Goal 2: Understand the major bases for segmentation

7.

Geographic Segmentation
Variables
• World region
or country
• U.S. region
• State
• City
• Neighborhood
• City or
metro size
• Density
• Climate
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Goal 2: Understand the major bases for segmentation

8.

Demographic Segmentation
Variables
Age
Gender
Family size
Family life cycle
Income
Occupation
Education
Religion
Race
Generation
Nationality
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Goal 2: Understand the major bases for segmentation

9.

Behavioral Segmentation
Variables
Occasions
Benefits
User Status
Attitude Toward
the Product
• User Rates
• Loyalty Status
• Readiness Stage
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Goal 2: Understand the major bases for segmentation

10. Segmenting Business Markets

Demographic segmentation
Industry, company size, location
Operating variables
Technology, usage status, customer capabilities
Purchasing approaches
Situational factors
Urgency, specific application, size of order
Personal characteristics
Buyer-seller similarity, attitudes toward risk, loyalty
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Goal 2: Understand the major bases for segmentation

11. Segmenting International Markets

Geographic segmentation
Location or region
Economic factors
Population income or level of economic
development
Political and legal factors
Type / stability of government, monetary
regulations, amount of bureaucracy, etc.
Cultural factors
Language, religion, values, attitudes, customs,
behavioral patterns
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Goal 2: Understand the major bases for segmentation

12. Requirements for Effective Segmentation

Measurable
Size, purchasing power, and profile of segment
Accessible
Can be reached and served
Substantial
Large and profitable enough to serve
Differentiable
Respond differently
Actionable
Effective programs can be developed
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Goal 2: Understand the major bases for segmentation

13. Target Marketing

Target Market
Consists of a set of buyers who share
common needs or characteristics
that the company decides to serve
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Goal 3: Know how companies identify and target attractive segments

14. Target Marketing

Evaluating Market Segments
Segment size and growth
Segment structural attractiveness
Level of competition
Substitute products
Power of buyers
Powerful suppliers
Company objectives and resources
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Goal 3: Know how companies identify and target attractive segments

15. Target Marketing

Selecting Target Market Segments
Undifferentiated (mass) marketing
Differentiated (segmented)
marketing
Concentrated (niche) marketing
Micromarketing (local or individual)
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Goal 3: Know how companies identify and target attractive segments

16. Choosing a Target Marketing Strategy

Considerations include:
Company resources
The degree of product variability
Product’s life-cycle stage
Market variability
Competitors’ marketing strategies
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Goal 3: Know how companies identify and target attractive segments

17. Target Marketing

Socially Responsible Targeting
Some segments, especially children,
are at special risk
Many potential abuses on the
Internet, including fraud Internet
shoppers
Controversy occurs when the
methods used are questionable
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Goal 3: Know how companies identify and target attractive segments

18. Positioning

Positioning:
The place the product occupies in
consumers’ minds relative to competing
products.
Typically defined by consumers on the
basis of important attributes.
Involves implanting the brand’s unique
benefits and differentiation in the
customer’s mind.
Positioning maps that plot perceptions of
brands are commonly used.
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Goal 4: Realize how companies position their products

19. Choosing a Positioning Strategy

Topics
Identifying possible
competitive advantages
Choosing the right
competitive advantage
Choosing a positioning
strategy
Differentiation can be based
on
Products
Services
Channels
People
Image
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Goal 4: Realize how companies position their products

20. Market Segmentation

Topics
• How many differences to
promote?
Unique selling
Identifying possible
proposition
competitive advantages
Several benefits
Choosing the right
• Which differences to
promote? Criteria include:
competitive advantage
Important
Choosing a positioning
Distinctive
strategy
Superior
Communicable
Preemptive
Affordable
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Profitable
Goal 4: Realize how companies position their products

21. Market Segmentation

Topics
Identifying possible
competitive advantages
Choosing the right
competitive advantage
Choosing a positioning
strategy
• Value propositions
represent the full
positioning of the brand
• Possible value propositions:
More for More
More for the Same
More for Less
The Same for Less
Less for Much Less
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Goal 4: Realize how companies position their products

22. Developing a Positioning Statement

Positioning statements summarize
the company or brand positioning
EXAMPLE: To (target segment and
need) our (brand) is (concept) that
(point-of-difference)
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Goal 4: Realize how companies position their products

23. Communicating the Positioning

Companies must be certain to
DELIVER their value propositions.
Positions must be monitored and
adapted over time.
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Goal 4: Realize how companies position their products
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