3.4 Marketing Strategies for Success
Primary and secondary market research, segmentation, product, price, promotion, place and technology-enabled marketing.
How to study WJEC GCSE Business
Learn the concept, apply it to the named business and stakeholder, use qualitative or quantitative evidence, and make a context-limited judgement.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Primary and secondary sources differ in purpose, relevance, cost, speed, control and potential bias.
Exam cue: Identify the WJEC unit, business context, stakeholder and command word before selecting theory or evidence.
Concept 2
Demographic, geographic, income and lifestyle segmentation support a defined target-market decision.
Exam cue: Identify the target segment, select evidence from research and explain how coordinated 4P decisions support one objective.
Concept 3
Product, price, promotion and place must work as a coordinated mix suited to the market, objective, competition and resources.
Exam cue: Trace the decision through a business consequence, use qualitative or quantitative evidence and finish with a context-limited judgement.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Recommending isolated promotional tactics without connecting product, price, distribution and target customer.
Guardrail: Avoid generic chains, unsupported current figures and cross-board assumptions; make every point depend on the given business evidence.
Importing the legacy WJEC two-exam structure, the Eduqas route or an England 9-1 grading convention.
Guardrail: Use qualification code 3160QS or 3160CS and the four-unit untiered structure; do not import the legacy WJEC or Eduqas route.
Listing generic advantages and disadvantages without applying them to the named Welsh, UK or global business context.
Guardrail: Avoid generic chains, unsupported current figures and cross-board assumptions; make every point depend on the given business evidence.
Memory anchors
Market research
Collecting and analysing information about customers, competitors and markets.
Market segment
A group of customers sharing relevant characteristics or needs.
Product differentiation
Making an offering distinct from competitors in ways customers value.
Penetration pricing
Setting a relatively low introductory price to build market share.
Price skimming
Setting a high introductory price before reducing it over time.
Marketing mix
The coordinated product, price, promotion and place decisions for a target market.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
A new bakery interviews local commuters about breakfast habits. Which research type is used?
A retailer uses published population data to choose a town. Which research type is this?
Answer all questions to submit.
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