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Target markets [ edit ]

Target markets are groups of individuals that are separated by distinguishable and noticeable aspects. Target markets can be separated by the following aspects:

• segmentations — addresses (their location climate region)
• demographic /socioeconomic segmentation — (gender, age, income, occupation, education, household size, and stage in the family life cycle)
• psychographic segmentation — (similar attitudes, values, and lifestyles)
• behavioral segmentation — (occasions, degree of loyalty)
• product-related segmentation — (relationship to a product) [ 2 ]

Strategies for reaching target markets [ edit ]

Marketers have outlined four basic strategies to satisfy target markets: undifferentiated marketing or mass marketing. differentiated marketing, concentrated marketing, and micromarketing / nichemarketing.

Mass marketing [ edit ]

A market coverage strategy in which a firm decides to ignore market segment differences and go after the whole market with one offer. It is the type of marketing (or attempting to sell through persuasion) of a product to a wide audience. The idea is to broadcast a message that will reach the largest number of people possible. Traditionally mass marketing has focused on radio, television and newspapers as the medium used to reach this broad audience. Many companies are now shunning away from mass marketing due to the much resources wasted on reaching the whole market while ignoring target individuals.

Differentiated marketing strategy [ edit ]

One where the company decides to provide separate offerings to each different market segment that it targets. It is also called multisegment marketing and as is clearly seen that it tries to appeal to multiple segments in the market. Each segment is targeted uniquely as the company provides unique benefits to different segments. It increases the total sales but at the expense of increase in the cost of investing in the business.

Concentrated marketing Or Niche marketing [ edit ]

This approach focuses on selecting a particular market niche on which marketing efforts are targeted. Your firm is focusing on a single segment so you can concentrate on understanding the needs and wants of that particular market intimately. Small firms often benefit from this strategy as focusing on one segment enables them to compete effectively against larger firms.

Direct marketing [ edit ]

For sales teams, one way to reach out to target markets is through direct marketing. This is done by buying consumer database based on the defined segmentation profiles. These database usually comes with consumer contacts (e.g. email, mobile no. home no. etc.).

The psychology of target marketing [ edit ]

A principal concept in target marketing is that those who are targeted show a strong affinity or brand loyalty to that particular brand. Target Marketing allows the marketer or sales team to customize their message to the targeted group of consumers in a focused manner. Research has shown that racial similarity, role congruence, labeling intensity of ethnic identification, shared knowledge and ethnic salience all promote positive effects on the target market. Research has generally shown that target marketing strategies are constructed from consumer inferences of similarities between some aspects of the advertisement (e.g. source pictured, language used, lifestyle represented) and characteristics of the consumer (e.g. reality or desire of having the represented style). Consumers are persuaded by the characteristics in the advertisement and those of the consumer. [ 3 ]