Unit 5: Segmentation, Targeting & Positioning
Unit 5: Segmentation, Targeting & Positioning
Positioning
OUTLINE
▪ Customer-driven marketing strategy
▪ Market segmentation
▪ Market Targeting
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Marketing strategy
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MARKET SEGMENTATION
Market segmentation is dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers who have different needs,
characteristics, or behaviors and who have the same responses to marketing stimuli.
Behavioral Occasions, benefits sought, user status, usage rate, loyalty status
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Requirements for effective segmentation
Measurable
Actionable Accessible
Differentiable Sustiantial
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Evaluating Market Segments
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Selecting target market segments
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POSITIONING
Product’s Positioning:
• The way the product defined by consumers on important
attributes.
• The place the product occupies in consumers’ minds
relative to competing products.
Value Proposition: The full positioning of brand – the full mix
of benefits on which it is positioned)
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Discussion: How are these brands positioned in your mind?
▪ 3 – The effectiveness of
marketing strategies.
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Product Services Personnel Image
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Identify a set of differentiating
competitive advantages on
which to build a position
Competitive advantage: An advantage over competitors gained by offering greater customer value
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