Marketing consists of individual and organisational activities that facilitate and expedite satisfying exchange relationships in a dynamic environment through the creation, servicing, distribution, promotion and pricing of goods, services and ideas (The American Marketing Association, cited by Simkin, 2000). Mass marketing and market segmentation are the two general approaches to marketing. Mass marketing is the fact of taking a market as a whole while market segmentation divides the market into different groups which shares the same needs. The most common of these two approaches remains the market segmentation as it usually is more efficient and effective. Either banks, corporation, supermarkets and others uses segmantation in order to know who their potential clients are. Each one of them uses a different segmentation strategy. Nokia corporation, focused in communication and information technology uses succesfuly multiple approaches to segment its market. The main purpose of this paper is to show how Nokia's segmentation strategy is relevant. Prior to that there will be the description of segmentation and ntroduction to the corporation.
I.DESCRIPTION OF SEGMENTATION
WHAT IS SEGMENTATION
Segmentation would be best defined as the art of identifying different groups of customers which share the same requirements. It actually is the heart of strategic marketing. While segmenting, the marketers try to think like customers so that they know what they expect. As a mater of fact many industrial market segmentation schemes are nothing more than common-usage of industrial sectors or internal product groupings: a long way from the customer need and attitude segments adopted by consumer marketers (Dibb and Simkin, 2000 cited by S...
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Segmentation variables can be classified into four major classes; geographic, demographic, psychographic and behavioural. The use of these categories either individually or in combination assists companies to identify and establish market segments which is relevant to the product or service they are offering. This in turn helps these organisations to evaluate the relevant segments to choose the pertinent target market.
Segmentation is the process of identifying different macro-groups of customers (i.e. segments) based on their common characteristics. The process of choosing a target segment, on which to focus marketing activities on, is a process named targeting.
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The following report presents an Integrated Marketing Plan for Nokia in the UK. The plan deals with media planning, segmentation, strategic and tactic planning of IMC, evaluation and such. The main aim of this plan is to expand Nokia’s consumer base, establish Nokia’s brand values and position it among the target audience, and also communicate the brand values with customers effectively, while simultaneously influencing sales to grow. This plan is created to ensure maximum effectiveness in Nokia’s marketing approach. The main aim of this plan is to assist Nokia in their IMC activities in the UK.
Segmentation is a marketing strategy that involves separating a wide target market into small groups of customers who share the common need of using or purchasing the product that needs to be marketed. Market segmentation strategies are utilized to identify these groups of consumers and strategies are designed and implemented to make the product or service appeal to them. Support and also the product will be strategically placed in order to successfully achieve the ultimate marketing goal. Businesses and organizations may come up with different type of strategies involving different products and catchy phrases depending on the product or the target segment.
Caroline and Jennifer said that ‘Market segmentation is a crucial marketing strategy. Its aim is to identify and delineate market segments or set of buyers which would then become targets for the company’s marketing plans.’ (Tynan and Drayton, 1987) There are many ways to segment the market, such as age, region, environment, psychology and wages (Hall, Jones and Raffo, 2010).
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To begin with, it is crucial to appreciate the meaning of segmentation and targeting because these two terms lay the foundation for this report. Consequently, segmentation is dividing a market, into groups of consumers with homogenous traits in order to provide each group with the desired product. What is the meaning of targeting? It is where an enterprise evaluates every segment with an objective of identifying segments with promising business opportunities. Considering the nature of the product in question, it sufficed to mention that liquor- filled chocolates are to be sold to adults.
Volterman’s product is unable to meet the need of people from all age group so they need to use market segmentation to meet the customer requirement with the common needs and characteristics. (3) Volterman organization are able to determine exactly who is their targeted market such as
Market segmentation means dividing the market into distinct groups that have common needs and will respond similarly to marketing action. Each segment must be unique, have common needs, and respond in a similar manner to marketing efforts. Target market is the group of potential customer that has been selected by business to focus its marketing efforts towards. This is the group the business wants to sell its products/services to. Positioning refers to the image created in the minds of customer of its product or brand. It is a perception created in the minds of the consumer relative to that of its competitors.
According to Kotler et al 2013 market segmentation is defined as dividing a market into smaller segments of buyers with distinct needs, characteristics or behaviours that might require separate marketing strategies or mixes. As per the industry data which we were operating we used different theories to segment the market one of them is STP process. In this method whole market is sub divided into different segments based on three activities these are segmentation, targeting and positioning. From the market information in case study we identified similar groups of consumer under market segmentation activity. For example market E had consumers travelling between mini hub to medium city that had a new and growing market. While targeting the market we identified which group of consumers to aim for instance market D had major university and service sectors. Lastly in the product and brand positioning we created a concept so as to appeal the target market by running as discount airline. One of the approaches for market segmentation according to Kotler et...
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