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BUSI 612 Target Marketing Essay
Target Marketing, is simply choosing the appropriate market segment to market your product. Therefore, the first step in Target Marketing is to define your market segments. Lets look at an example of segmentation theory:
Before Marriott Corporation invented the hotel/motel market segment titled suites or business hotels/motels, the market was divided into these categories: luxury (Ritz Carlton, Trump hotels etc.), low luxury (Hilton, Marriott etc.) mid-priced (Holiday Inn, Best Western etc.), value-priced (Motel 6, Motel 8 etc.) and the independents (usually older hotels/motels that have been cleaned up and run by families and very affordable prices). Once Marriott researched the hotel/motel market and found not one operator catered to business people, they began to develop the business hotel and suites concept, called Courtyard by Marriott. This new market segment revolutionized the industry.
Market segments have homogeneous needs. To successfully segment the market, you must find a unique way to divide the entire market into; similar to what Marriott did.
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