The document discusses market segmentation and target marketing. It defines market segmentation as dividing the market into customer segments and target marketing as selecting which segment to focus on. It also outlines the key components of a company's marketing environment, including the microenvironment of actors close to the company like suppliers, marketing intermediaries, and competitors, as well as the larger macroenvironment forces like demographics, economic conditions, natural resources, technology, and culture. Finally, it provides some statistics about Pakistan's population in terms of age structure, education levels, life expectancy, income distribution, and other factors in the macroenvironment.
1. Segmentation and Target Marketing #1 #2 Market Segmentation: Divide the market into segments of customers Target Marketing: Select the segment to cultivate
Microenvironment includes: the company itself, supplies, marketing channel firms, customer markets, competitors, and publics. Macroenvironment includes: demographic, economic, natural, technological, political, and cultural forces.
Resellers are distribution channel firms that help the company find customers or make sales to them. These include wholesalers and retailers who buy and resell merchandise. Resellers often perform important functions more cheaply than the company can perform itself. However, seeking and working with resellers is not easy because of the power that some demand and use. Physical distribution firms help the company to stock and move goods from their points of origin to their destinations. Examples would be warehouses (that store and protect goods before they move to the next destination). Marketing services agencies (such as marketing research firms, advertising agencies, media firms, etc.) help the company target and promote its products to the right markets. Financial intermediaries (such as banks, credit companies, insurance companies, etc.) help finance transactions and insure against risks associated with buying and selling goods.