If your assignment was (for each segment) to create a value proposition and product-price positioning strategy based on the segm
ent’s unique customer needs and characteristics, you would be in which of the following steps of the segmentation process? Needs-based segmentation
Segment identification
Segment attractiveness
Segment positioning
Segment "acid-test"
The correct answer is letter "D": Segment positioning.
Explanation:
Market segmentation refers to the classification a company makes of its customers by features such as <em>age, gender, income, lifestyles, </em>or <em>location</em>. It allows specializing in the production of one product that better matches part of the market's needs. Market segmentation has three (3) main steps: <em>Targeting, Product Positioning, </em>and <em>Deciding on a Marketing Mix</em>.
<em>The </em>segment positioning<em> stage involves developing a detailed product for the sector of the market selected and developing a marketing mix that segment. Product price and value are also set during this phase.</em>
Total revenue is defined as the revenues that are received from the sales of units of goods and services. It is price multiplied by quantity sold.
Total revenue can also be seen as price per unit times quantity is sold. For example if the unit price of a good is $2 the price per one unit is $2. When 20 units are sold the price per units sold is 20* $2= $40.
So times that a defined unit of goods is sold multiplied by price gives the total revenue.
A country can gain from immigration when immigration is controlled so that immigrants contribute to society. If the immigrants have needed skills and come in appropriate numbers this is good for the country. Also by getting people from all over, they will benefit by having a much richer culture.
The reason for this is that during business cycles investors gain trust in the economy during a boom and invest a lot and during a recession they lose trust in the economy and decrease their investment by a lot, where as a lot of consumption like food, medicine, petrol etc remains mostly unaffected by changes in business cycle. Also government spending does not fluctuate a lot during the course of a business cycle because government spending is either long term like development projects.