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1. When engaging in the market segmentation process:
- if a segment can be further subdivided, it should be.
- the basic problem is one of finding customers once the company’s product is perfected.
- the firm hopes to understand the customer response characteristics of each segment.
- the primary consideration is segment accessibility.
2. Business marketers are LEAST likely to use which factor to segment their markets:
- brand personalities
- operating characteristics
- personal characteristics
- purchasing approaches
3. Target marketing helps organizations connect with customers by:
- defining the needs of all customers within the market.
- focusing resources to meet the needs and wants of particular customers.
- isolating themselves from normal competition.
- looking for small niches that can be defended easily.
4. A university targeting students based on the benefit of getting a degree quickly and without interfering with the rest of the students’ lives would emphasize:
- the higher average salaries earned by college graduates.
- the great variety of classes offered.
- providing classes at convenient times and asynchronous distance learning courses.
- discount pricing for students taking more than twelve credit hours.
5. Regarding market segmentation:
- a firm with multiple market segmentation is going to experience some degree of cannibalism, i.e., one of its products will take sales from another of its products.
- a single market segment approach is generally focused on a small market away from the so-called “center” of the total market.
- the idea of multiple market segmentation is to give each market segment the choice from among several brands from the same seller.
- the single market segment approach is usually some form of the “me too” strategy.