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Segmenting the Market with Jagdish Sheth

Kennesaw State University via Coursera

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Coursera
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Paid Course
Languages

English
Certificate

Certificate Available
Effort

6 hours 24 minutes
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Beginner
Subtitles

English

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This course is all about how to segment the market to take advantage of market heterogeneity. The course will review different bases for market segmentation including demographics, psychographics, and lifestyles. We will also review segmentation by product and price.

Syllabus

Introduction to Segmenting the Market

This lecture focuses on how companies use segmentation to grow revenues, to reduce costs, to add value to their products and not as a tool to compete. It then explains in detail the basis for segmentation and the three methodologies for segmenting the market namely demographics, psychographics, and buy-o-graphics.

Seven Ways to Differentiate in Marketing

This lecture describes and discusses in detail differentiating strategies that companies can use to create differentiation in Product, Price, Place, Promotion, Process, People and, Purpose. It then explores each of these areas in-depth by illustrating cross-industry, multi-cultural and multi-national examples.

Positioning: Key to Successful Marketing

Positioning is one of the key concepts in Marketing along with Differentiation and Segmentation. This lecture focuses on what Positioning creates and does for a company and provides key criteria for developing good Positioning. It further explores how Positioning could provide a competitive advantage to a company’s product or service in the marketplace.