Target Marketing in Bottle Water
1. Target marketing and market segmentation of Bling H20
Bling H2O crystal-encrusted of Beverly Hills is the inspiration of Kevin G. Boyd, a Hollywood writer-producer. While working on various studio lots where image is, well, everything, he noticed that you could tell a lot about a person by the bottled water he/she carried. So just like any other savvy business person, he decided to capitalize on his finding. "Our product is strategically positioned to target the expanding super-luxury consumer market."
Target marketing
Kotler（2004）Here, the seller identifies market segments, selects one or more of them, and develops products and marketing mixes tailored to each. For example, if the Bling H20 were available in Australia, the marketer would only select super-luxury consumers as target marketing.
There are three main steps in target marketing. The first is market segmentation –dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers with different needs, characteristics or behavior who might require separate products or marketing mixes. The company identifies different ways to segment the market and develops profiles of the resulting market segments. There are four variables that used in analyzing consumer market segments – geographic, demographic, and psychographic and behavior variables. Today, I take the Bling H20 as example to apply those variables to help me to understand more deeply about the market segmentation. According to Kotler, Adam and Brown et al. (2004, p216-226) • Geographic segmentation calls for identifying and analyzing the different geographical units that make up a market – nations, regions, states, municipalities, cities or neighborhoods. For example, Bling H20 targets the super –luxury consumer market then this product should match the location where the consumers who have the purchase power for this product. New South Wales like Mosman, Woollahra or Hunters Hill, Kuringai, North Sydney. • Demographic segmentation consists of identifying
Bling H2O crystal-encrusted of Beverly Hills is the inspiration of Kevin G. Boyd, a Hollywood writer-producer. While working on various studio lots where image is, well, everything, he noticed that you could tell a lot about a person by the bottled water he/she carried. So just like any other savvy business person, he decided to capitalize on his finding. "Our product is strategically positioned to target the expanding super-luxury consumer market."
Target marketing
Kotler（2004）Here, the seller identifies market segments, selects one or more of them, and develops products and marketing mixes tailored to each. For example, if the Bling H20 were available in Australia, the marketer would only select super-luxury consumers as target marketing.
There are three main steps in target marketing. The first is market segmentation –dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers with different needs, characteristics or behavior who might require separate products or marketing mixes. The company identifies different ways to segment the market and develops profiles of the resulting market segments. There are four variables that used in analyzing consumer market segments – geographic, demographic, and psychographic and behavior variables. Today, I take the Bling H20 as example to apply those variables to help me to understand more deeply about the market segmentation. According to Kotler, Adam and Brown et al. (2004, p216-226) • Geographic segmentation calls for identifying and analyzing the different geographical units that make up a market – nations, regions, states, municipalities, cities or neighborhoods. For example, Bling H20 targets the super –luxury consumer market then this product should match the location where the consumers who have the purchase power for this product. New South Wales like Mosman, Woollahra or Hunters Hill, Kuringai, North Sydney. • Demographic segmentation consists of identifying
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