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ENTREPRENEURSHIP
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TARGET MARKET
WEEK 5 - Development of Business Plan ⮚ Market Targeting is a sage in market
Part 3 identification process that aims to determine the
buyers with common needs and characteristics.
PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE
⮚The product Life Cycle concept describes a MARKET SEGMENTATION
product’s sales, profits, customers, ⮚Is the process of grouping similar or homogenous
competitors, and marketing emphasis from its customers according to demographic,
beginning until it is removed from the market psychographic, geographic, and
behavior
STAGES OF PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE
✨Product Development DEMOGRAPHIC SEGMENTATION
⮚a new product is modified, created and innovated Divided based consumers Variables to
from an existing product consider:
✨Introduction a. Gender
⮚Product is introduced into the market b. Age
place to generate customer interest. c. Income
✨Growth d. Occupation
⮚The product gains wider consumer e. Education
acceptance and the objective are to f. Religion
expand distribution and the range of g. Ethnic group
available product alternatives. h. Family size
✨Maturity
⮚ The product’s sales level and companies try to GEOGRAPHIC SEGMENTATION
maintain lower price, better product features for as The total market is divided according to
long as possible. geographical location.
✨Decline Variables to consider:
⮚The product’s sales fall as substitutes and new a. Climate
competitors enter the market. b. Dominant ethnic group
c. Culture
VALUE PROPOSITION d. Density (either rural or urban)
⮚ Value Proposition (VP) is a business or
marketing statement that summarizes why a PSYCHOGRAPHIC SEGMENTATION
consumer should buy a company's product or use its Divided in terms of what customers think and
service. believe.
⮚ In creating Value Proposition, entrepreneurs will Variables to consider:
consider the basic elements: a. Needs and wants
• Target Customer b. Attitudes
c. Social class that are utilized in the production.
d. Personality traits -Direct Materials
e. Knowledge and awareness -Direct Labor
f. Brand concept -Direct Overhead
g. Lifestyle Fixed costs
are expenses which firms cannot do away
BEHAVIORAL SEGMENTATION regardless of production volume.
Divided according to customers behavior -Office Rental
pattern as they interact with a company. -Legal/Insurance/licensing fees
Variables to consider: -Professional Fees
a. Perceptions -Salaries
b. Knowledge -Advertising and Marketing
c. Reaction
d. Benefits Direct Materials
e. Loyalty These materials are used to manufacture a
f. Responses product. Those expenses that are attributed to
producing the product.
WEEK 6 - Marketing mix / The market Direct Labor
These would include the wages of all workers
MARKETING MIX directly for making the product.
- Is the foundation concept in marketing. Direct Overhead
- It is defined as the set of marketing tools that These are the costs incurred during the
the firm uses to pursue its production process, regardless of the output
marketing objectives in the target market. that the company produces.
Fixed Costs
These are the expenses incurred by the
organization that are not related to the product.
7PS OF MARKETING MIX Types of Promotion
* PRODUCT - Anything that can be -Advertising
offered for satisfaction. - Personal Selling
*PRICE - Price is the amount of money - Sales Promotion
consumers pay to buy a product. - Public Relation
Pricing Approaches - Direct Marketing
1. Mark-up pricing
2. Perceived Value Pricing Week-7 Marketing Mix and
3. Competitive Pricing
*PLACE- Refers to the physical location where Branding
a business carries out business of the
distribution channel used to reach markets.
-PROMOTION
-PEOPLE
-PACKAGING
-POSITIONING
Brand Name
A brand name is a name (usually a proper
noun) applied by a manufacturer or
organization to a particular product or service.