1. Market targeting involves evaluating each market segment's attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter. 2. Before implementing a marketing strategy, a marketer must identify, evaluate, and select a target market, which is a specific segment of consumers most likely to purchase a particular product. 3. There are several strategies for reaching target markets, including undifferentiated marketing to all customers, differentiated marketing with customized mixes for segments, concentrated/niche marketing focusing all resources on one segment, and micromarketing targeting very specific demographic groups.

1. Market: A market is the set of all actual and potential
buyers of the product.
Market Targeting: Evaluating each market segment’s
attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to enter.

2. Target marketing process
Market Market
Positioning
segmentation targeting

3. Selecting a Target Market
 Before a marketing mix strategy can be implemented,
the marketer must identify, evaluate, and select a
target market.
 Market: people or institutions with sufficient
purchasing power, authority, and willingness to buy
 Target market: specific segment of consumers most
likely to purchase a particular product

4. Strategies for Reaching
Target Markets
 Undifferentiated Marketing: when a firm produces only
one product or product line and promotes it to all
customers with a single marketing mix.
 Differentiated Marketing: when a firm produces
numerous products and promotes them with a different
marketing mix designed to satisfy smaller segments.
 Concentrated Marketing (niche marketing): when a
firm commits all of its marketing resources to serve a single
market segment.
 Micromarketing: involves targeting potential customers
at a very basic level, such as by ZIP code, specific
occupation, lifestyle, or individual household

5. Selecting and Executing a Strategy
 No single, best choice strategy suits all firms
 Determinants of a market-specific strategy:
 Company resources
 Product homogeneity
 Market homogeneity
 Stage in the product life-cycle
 Competitors’ strategy

6. Market Positioning
 Positioning:a marketing strategy that emphasizes
serving a specific market segment by achieving a
certain position in buyers’ minds
 Attributes: Price/quality
 Competitors
 Benefits products offer
 Product user
 Product class

7. Exercise
 Go to the website of a major brand of resorts.
Study how they use appeal to different segments,
through the website.