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PRINCIPLE OF MARKETING
Chapter 7
Customer driven- Marketing strategy:
creating value for target customers
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Philip Kotler & Gary Armstrong
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Learning Objectives
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After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
1. Define the three steps of target marketing: market
segmentation, target marketing, and market positioning
2. List and discuss the major bases for segmenting consumer
and business markets
3. Explain how companies identify attractive consumer and
business markets
4. Discuss how companies position their products for
maximum competitive advantage in the marketplace
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Chapter Concepts:
1. Market Segmentation
2. Marketing Target
3. Differentiation and Positioning
4. Positioning for Competitive Advantage
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Market Segmentation
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1. Discuss the need to understand competitors as well
as customers through competitor analysis
2. Explain the fundamentals of competitive marketing
strategies based on creating value for customers
3. Demonstrate the need for balancing customer and
competitor orientations in becoming a truly market-
centered organization
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Market Segmentation
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Market segmentation is the process that companies
use to divide large heterogeneous markets into
small markets that can be reached more efficiently
and effectively with products and services that
match their unique needs.
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Market Segmentation
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• Segmenting consumer markets
• Segmenting business markets
• Segmenting international markets
• Requirements for effective segmentation
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Market Segmentation
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Segmenting Consumer Markets
• Geographic
• Demographic
• Psychographic
• Behavioral
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Market Segmentation
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Segmenting Consumer Markets
• Geographic segmentation divides the market into
different geographical units such as nations,
regions, states, counties, or cities.
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Geographic Segmentation - by nations
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Market Segmentation
Segmenting Consumer Markets
• Demographic segmentation divides the market into
groups based on variables such as age, gender,
family size, family life cycle, income, occupation,
education, religion, race, generation, and
nationality.
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Demographic segmentation -
occupation
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Market Segmentation
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Segmenting Consumer Markets
• Demographic segmentation is the most popular
segmentation method because consumer needs,
wants, and usage often vary closely with
demographic variables and are easier to measure
than other types of variables.
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Segmenting Consumer Markets
• Age and life-cycle stage segmentation is the
process of offering different products or using
different marketing approaches for different age
and life-cycle groups.
• Gender segmentation divides the market based on
sex (male or female).
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Age & Life Cycle
Segmentation – families
with young children
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Market Segmentation
Segmenting Consumer Markets
• Income segmentation divides the market into
affluent or low-income consumers.
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Market Segmentation
Segmenting Consumer Markets
Psychographic segmentation divides buyers into
different groups based on social class, lifestyle,
or personality traits.
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Market Segmentation
Segmenting Consumer Markets
• Behavioral segmentation divides buyers into
groups based on their knowledge,
attitudes, uses, or responses to a product.
• Occasion
• Benefits sought
• User status
• Usage rate
• Loyalty status
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Segmenting Consumer Markets
• Occasion segmentation divides buyers into groups
according to occasions when they get the idea to
buy, actually make purchases, or respond to a
product.
• Benefit segmentation requires finding the major
benefits people look for in the product class, the
kinds of people who look for each benefit, and the
major brands that deliver each benefit.
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Occasion Segmentation – consumers buy
special items for occasions like birthdays
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Segmenting Consumer Markets
• User status divides buyers into ex-users, potential
users, first-time users, and regular users of a
product.
• Usage rate divides buyers into light, medium, and
heavy product users.
• Loyalty status divides buyers into groups according
to their degree of loyalty.
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Segmenting Consumer Markets
• Loyalty status divides buyers into groups according
to their degree of loyalty.
Market Segmentation
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Market Segmentation
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Using Multiple Segmentation Bases
• Multiple segmentation is used to identify smaller,
better-defined target groups.
• Geodemographic segmentation is an example of
multivariable segmentation that divides groups into
consumer lifestyle patterns.
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Segmenting Business Markets
• In addition to the same segmentation variables as
consumers, business can also be segmented by:
• Customer-operating characteristics
• Purchasing approaches
• Situational factors
• Personal characteristics
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Segmenting Business Markets
• Segmenting international markets
• Geographic location
• Economic factors
• Political and legal factors
• Cultural factors
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Segmenting Business Markets
• Intermarket segmentation divides consumers into
groups with similar needs and buying behaviors
even though they are located in different countries.
Market Segmentation
Intermarket segmentation – whether Japanese,
Chinese, Thais, or Indians, they all consume rice
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Requirements for Effective Segmentation
• To be useful, a market segment must be:
• Measurable
• Accessible
• Substantial
• Differentiable
• Actionable
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Requirements for Effective Segmentation
• Measurable: Examples include the size, purchasing
power, and profiles of the segments
• Accessible: Refers to the fact that the market can
be effectively reached and served
• Substantial: Refers to the fact that the markets are
large and profitable enough to serve
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Requirements for Effective Segmentation
• Differentiable: Refers to the fact that the markets
are conceptually distinguishable and respond
differently to marketing mix elements and programs
• Actionable: Refers to the fact that effective
programs can be designed for attracting and serving
the segments
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Market Targeting
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Evaluating Market Segments
• Segment size and growth
• Segment structural attractiveness
• Company objectives and resources
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Evaluating Market Segments
• Segment size and growth:
• Smaller versus larger segments
• Growth potential
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Market Targeting
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Evaluating Market Segments
• Segment structural attractiveness:
• Competition
• Substitute products
• Power of buyers
• Power of suppliers
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Market Targeting
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Evaluating Market Segments
• Company objectives and resources:
• Competitive advantage
• Availability of resources
• Consistent with company objectives
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Market Targeting
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Selecting Target Market Segments
• Undifferentiated marketing
• Differentiated marketing
• Concentrated marketing
• Micromarketing
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Market Targeting
Market Targeting
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Target Marketing Strategies
• Undifferentiated marketing targets the whole
market with one offer.
• Mass marketing
• Focuses on common needs rather than
what’s
different
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Market Targeting
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Selecting Target Market Segments
• Differentiated marketing targets several different
market segments and designs separate offers for
each.
• Goal is to achieve higher sales and stronger
position
• More expensive than undifferentiated
marketing
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Market Targeting
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Differentiated marketing – Colgate targets
different market segments with different
types of toothpaste.
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Selecting Target Market Segments
• Concentrated marketing targets a small share of a
large market
• Limited company resources
• Knowledge of the market
• More effective and efficient
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Market Targeting
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Selecting Target Market Segments
• Micromarketing is the practice of tailoring products
and marketing programs to suit the tastes of
specific individuals and locations.
• Local marketing
• Individual marketing
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Market Targeting
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BK Double
Rendang
Micromarketing – fast food chains like
Burger King introduce rendang
burgers in Singapore and Malaysia,
where local palates prefer spicy food.
© Gene Lee
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Selecting Target Market Segments
• Local marketing involves tailoring brands and
promotion to the needs and wants of local
customer groups.
• Cities
• Neighborhoods
• Stores
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Selecting Target Market Segments
• Benefits of local marketing
• Increased marketing effectiveness in competitive markets
• More customer-specific offerings
• Challenges of local marketing:
• Increased manufacturing and marketing costs
• Less economy of scale
• Logistics
• Dilution of company image
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Selecting Target Market Segments
• Individual marketing involves tailoring products
and marketing programs to the needs and
preferences of individual customers.
• Also known as:
• One-to-one marketing
• Mass customization
• Markets-of-one marketing
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Market Targeting
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Selecting Target Market Segments
• Mass customization is the process through which
firms interact one-to-one with masses of customers
to design products and services tailor-made to
meet individual needs. Has made relationships with
customers important in the new economy.
• Provides a way to distinguish the company against
competitors
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Mass customization by
banks to reach groups
of customers who hold
large sums of savings
and investments with
the bank
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Market Targeting
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Choosing a Targeting Strategy
Depends on:
• Company resources
• Product variability
• Product life-cycle stage
• Market variability
• Competitor’s marketing
strategies
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Socially Responsible Target Marketing
• Benefits customers with specific needs
• Concern for vulnerable segments
• Children
• Alcohol
• Cigarettes
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Differentiation and Positioning
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• Product position is the way the product is defined
by consumers on important attributes—the
place the product occupies in consumers’ minds
relative to competing products.
• Perceptions
• Impressions
• Feelings
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• Positioning maps show consumer perceptions of
their brands versus competing products on
important buying dimensions.
• Price and orientation
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Choosing a Differentiation and Positioning Strategy
• Identifying a set of possible competitive advantages
to build a position
• Choosing the right competitive advantages
• Selecting an overall positioning strategy
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Choosing a Differentiation and Positioning Strategy
• Identifying a set of possible competitive advantages
to build a position by providing superior value from:
• Product differentiation
• Service differentiation
• Channels
• People
• Image
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Identifying Possible Value Differences and
Competitive Advantage
• Competitive advantage is the advantage over
competitors gained by offering greater value either
through lower prices or by providing more benefits
that justify higher prices.
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Singapore Airlines may
charge a higher price, but
provides excellent services –
product and service
differentiation.
© Rick Hall
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Choosing the Right Competitive Advantages
• A difference is worth establishing to the extent that
it satisfies the following criteria:
• Important
• Distinctive
• Superior
• Communicable
• Preemptive
• Affordable
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Selecting an Overall Strategy
• Value proposition is the full mix of benefits upon
which a brand is positioned.
• More for more
• More for the same
• Same for less
• Less for much less
• More for less
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Possible
value
propositions
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Developing a Positioning Statement
• Positioning statement states the product’s
membership in a category and then shows its
point-of-difference from other members of the
category.
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Positioning for a Competitive
Advantage
Positioning statement:
Form
• A statement that summarizes company or brand
positioning using this form: To (target segment
and need) our (brand) is (concept) that (point of
difference).
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