Firms will often have the goal of increasing market share. Increased market share is primarily delivered through winning a greater proportion of the market’s business. In particular, one or more of the following situations must occur for a firm/brand to increase its market share:A greater proportion of consumers decide to purchase the brandThe brand wins […]
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Generation Edge, also known as Gen Z, is a demographic group that is currently coming of age and significantly impacting consumer culture. Born after the Millennials, they are the children of Gen Xers.
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Hierarchy of effectsThis is a marketing model designed to demonstrate how a consumer transitions from being unaware of a brand, to forming attitudes and understanding of that brand, to ultimately becoming an end customer.There are many versions of this hierarchy of effects model found in textbooks, but let’s start with a very basic three-step model
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Hierarchy of effects model and share of minds and share of heartsThere are numerous hierarchy of effects models that are covered in marketing literature. Probably the most common one was developed in 1961 and is a six stage model usually included in a Philip Kotler marketing textbook. The following diagram is an expansion of the
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A segment profile is a descriptive summary of the size, needs, behaviors and preferences of consumers within a particular market segment, with the goal of evaluating segment attractiveness and developing suitable marketing strategies.
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What is a business segmentation base?A business segmentation base is definable characteristics or behavior of organizations that can be utilized to classify the organizations into related groups, for the purpose of target marketing.Main business segmentation bases (with examples)Geographic location/s: Where the business operates. Examples: Countries, regions, spread of operations across areasBusiness description: Basic description of
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Just in the same way that consumer products can be classified into similar categories of products, business or industrial products can also be classed together. These classification schemes are helpful for marketers to understand the fundamental marketing challenges of the products that they manage.In both sets of classification schemes – consumer products and business/industrial products
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Brand personas are commonly used in customer journey mapping, but are generally helpful in most aspects of marketing strategy development. This is because a brand persona – which is a representation of the typical customer in a target market – helps the firm more clearly understand the consumer.Generally firms will develop multiple brand personas –
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Using Brand Personas in Customer Journey MappingA fundamental principle of modern day marketing is to segment the market and select appropriate target markets. For more information on the market segmentation process, please refer to the market segmentation study guide.Target markets are smaller parts of the overall market, where consumers are grouped into sets of similar
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As suggested by the name, a customer journey is the progression of a consumer (initially a non-customer of a brand) in their journey to becoming a customer of the brand.
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