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Quarter 1 – Module 9:
Positioning
Principles of Marketing – Grade 11
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Quarter 1 – Module9: Positioning
First Edition, 2020
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What I Need to Know
strategies and positioning map. This will help learners to understand on how to
product.
What I Know
Directions: Read and analyze the conceptual information about market positioning. Express
each number.
brand or product.
position.
____________3. A product position is a space that a product owns in the minds of the
consumers.
____________7. Market positioning must be maintained over the life of the brand or product.
____________8. A car maker may position itself as a luxury status symbol is an example of
____________9. Repositioning a brand or product means altering its place it the minds of the
consumer.
proposition.
____________14. There’s no need to compare and contrast differences between your company
____________15. Low price and low volume can be a possible dimensions for the axes of
positioning map.
Lesson
Positioning
9
What is Market Positioning?
For example:
edge
meals
There are two broad categories of market position: cost leadership and
applicable to any business and any industry. A business can choose to position itself
A company using a cost leader strategy attempts to position itself in the minds
price that is lower than competing products available in the marketplace. Consumers
expect basic products with no bells and whistles from a company using a
cost leader strategy. Instead, consumers just expect the products to meet
NECESSITY LUXURY
LIGHT HEAVY
SIMPLE COMPLEX
UNHEALTHY HEALTHY
LOW-TECH HI-TECH
An example of consumers’ perception of price and quality of brands in the automobile
industry are mapped below:
What’s In
Directions: Several dimensions were given inside the word pool, identify appropriate
dimensions in crafting your own perceptual map of chocolate. (Use the
market positioning template as guide.)
Low price
high quality
Necessity
healthy
High price
unhealthy
Luxury low
quality
“TO STAY IN THE MARKET IS TO STAY IN THE CUSTOMER’S
MIND”
(Dizon C. 2020)
What’s New
PERFORMANCE
AREAS 20 points 15 points 10 points
Cross links are Cross links are Cross links are not
frequent and show used and usually often used and fail
logical inter used logical inter to show logical
relationships relationships inter relationships
CROSS LINKING
among the among the among the
concepts concepts. concepts
What is It
Businesses use marketing to create value for customers by making two key decisions:
This involves:
Having chosen which segments to target – a business needs to decide how to compete
in those segments. Marketing people call this choice the value proposition. What
position will be taken?
It is important to remember that the market position (or value proposition) is defined
by customers – the place a product occupies in customer minds relative to competing
products.
Directions: Presented in column A are conceptual information about marketing,
find the best match provided in column B.
COLUMN A
1. analyzing the different parts of a
market.
2. how customer perceived the
product.
3. low volume
4. heavy
5. deciding which market segments to
enter
6. offering products with price lower
than competing products
7. unique products
8. altering its place in cosnsumer's
mind
9. use to show consumer's perception
10. unhealthy
Marketing
COLUMN B
a. light
b. market positioning
c. cost leadership
d. perceptual map
e. repositioning
f. market
g. healthy
h. targeting
i. high volume
j. differentiation
What’s More
Directions : Rearrange the letters inside the box to form a meaningful word. (hint:
words pertains to market positioning)
1. NNIIIOOPSTG
2. NIOTAITRENEFFDI
3. GESNEMATIONT
4. SSEENNUUQI
5. ERPPCEULAT
6. YGETARTS 7. SUBISSEN
8. ERGNOPINISOIT
9. DNARB
10. SUCOTREM
What I Have Learned
Having learned the fundamentals of market positioning, fill in the appropriate word/s
1. _________________
Market Positioning refers to the ability to influence consumer perception regarding
it in a certain way.
minds of the consumers as a company that provides products the consumers want
whistles from a company using a cost leader strategy. Instead, consumers just
expect the products to meet their needs and nothing more or less.
provides 7. _________________products
unique that consumers will pay more for because they
therefore are willing to pay a premium for a differentiated product. This is true as
product that makes it more valuable to the consumer, whether a functional feature
product.
What I Can Do
Directions: The following sets of products belong to the same positioning category,
identify the product that does not belong to the same dimensions.
5. papaya
1. choc nut 3. safe guard soap
2. yogurt 4. toyota
flatops dove skinwhite
yakult suzuki soap
m&m green cross
soda asahi nivea
6. tide
7. fruit juice
ariel
milk tea
palmolive
fruit shake
8. anchor
ensure
bearbrand
9. baygon
lysol
alcohol
10. colgate
close up
head and shoulder
Assessment
Directions:
Acrostic Poem
Follow these steps to write an eleven-line acrostic poem
explaining positioning .
Write the term POSITIONING vertically along the left side
of a notebook page. Begin each line with a word that starts with
the appropriate letter.
Each line must help answer questions concerning market
positioning .
STRUCTURE/FOCUS The poem does The poem has The poem has a
not have a clear message but 1-2 clear message.
message . lines do not relate Each line relates
More than 2 lines to the topic to the topic of the
do not relate to poem.
the topic.
Match the following definitions to the correct market positioning terms provided
inside the word pool.
differentiation
What I have
Additional What I Can Do: learned:
Activities:
1. M&m 1. Market
1. Market 2. Soda positioning
positioning 3. Dove 2. Image or
2. Perceptual 4. Asahi identity
Assessment:
map 5. Nivea 3. Cost leader
3. Targeting POSITIONING 6. Palmolive 4. Lower
4. Product 7. Milk tea 5. Basic
differentiati 8. Bearbrand 6. Differentiation
on 9. Alcohol 7. Unique
5. repositioni 10. Head and 8. Differentiated
ng shoulder 9. Value
10.perception
What I Know:
What’s More:
1. Agree
1. Positioning What is It: What’s In: 2. Agree
2. Differentia High price—low 3. Agree
1. f
tion price 4. Disagree
2. b
3. Segmentation 5. Disagree
3. i
4. Uniqueness High quality –low 6. Disagree
4. a
5. Perceptual quality 7. Agree
5. h
6. Strategy 8. Agree
6. c High price—low
7. Business 9. Agree
7. j price
8. Repositioni 10. Disagree
8. e
ng 11. Agree
9. d Unhealthy--
9. Brand 12. Agree
10. g healthy
10.customer 13. Agree
14. Disagree
15. agree
Answer Key
References
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