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A niche market is a specialized segment within the broader market, catering to a specific product or service. It’s a small but influential part of the market, characterized by distinct product features, a particular price range, set production quality, and clearly defined target demographics. Some products are uniquely designed to cater to these niche markets. In niche marketing, product quality is not determined by price elasticity alone, but is largely influenced by the unique needs of the segment and fire^[3] recognition. This approach allows businesses to tailor their offerings and marketing strategies to a well-defined group, leading to a more personalized customer experience^[2]. Similarly, niche audiences, while smaller than mass audiences, can be more influential and have greater control over their preferences, allowing for more targeted advertising^[1] opportunities.

Terms definitions

1. ↑ targeted advertising.

1 Targeted advertising is a marketing method that focuses on delivering promotional content to specific audiences. This strategy involves gathering and analyzing user data to tailor ads to individuals' interests, behaviors, and demographics. There are several types of targeted advertising, which include internet service providers tracking website visits, search engine marketing, and using platforms like Google's Search and Display Network.The technique also extends to social media, with platforms harnessing behavioral targeting and geotargeting. For instance, Facebook uses micro-targeting based on user data. Additionally, there are various targeted advertising techniques, such as content, contextual, technical, time, sociodemographic, and geographical targeting.Moreover, targeted advertising is prevalent in mobile and television sectors. Mobile ads utilize consumer location and time, while television ads focus on demographics and interests. Cable boxes and over-the-top video platforms also facilitate targeted advertising. All these methods aim to increase advertising efficiency and relevance.

2 "Targeted advertising" is a marketing strategy that involves gathering and analyzing user data to deliver personalized ads relevant to individual consumers. This strategy can be implemented across various channels such as search engines, social media, television, and mobile devices. Companies, internet service providers, and websites collect user data like preferences, behaviors, and demographics to make ads more relevant. Platforms like Google Ads allow advertisers to reach specific audiences, even retargeting specific website visitors. Social media platforms leverage user data for personalized advertising, allowing advertisers to target users based on interests, likes, demographics, and other factors. Television ads can target viewers based on age, gender, location, and interests, while mobile advertising uses location and time data to serve ads tailored to consumer schedules and environments.

2. ↑ customer experience.

1 Customer experience, often abbreviated as CX, is an integral aspect of successful businesses and is the subject of this text. It refers to the perception, emotions, and reactions that a customer has while interacting with a company and its products or services. This concept evolves over time, influenced by changes in the competitive landscape and customer expectations. The design of a customer experience involves careful planning and intentional creation of interactions that are meaningful and valuable to the customer. This includes everything from the physical surroundings to the emotional resonance of the interaction. The management of customer experiences, also known as Customer Experience Management (CEM), is a crucial business strategy that tracks and oversees all customer interactions to ensure satisfaction and loyalty. Monitoring and optimizing these experiences, understanding the factors that contribute to satisfaction or dissatisfaction, and recognizing the impact of different environments and techniques are all key elements of effective customer experience management.

2 Customer experience, often abbreviated as CX, is an integral aspect of successful businesses and is the subject of this text. It refers to the perception, emotions, and reactions that a customer has while interacting with a company and its products or services. This concept evolves over time, influenced by changes in the competitive landscape and customer expectations. The design of a customer experience involves careful planning and intentional creation of interactions that are meaningful and valuable to the customer. This includes everything from the physical surroundings to the emotional resonance of the interaction. The management of customer experiences, also known as Customer Experience Management (CEM), is a crucial business strategy that tracks and oversees all customer interactions to ensure satisfaction and loyalty. Monitoring and optimizing these experiences, understanding the factors that contribute to satisfaction or dissatisfaction, and recognizing the impact of different environments and techniques are all key elements of effective customer experience management.

Glossary

Niche market (Wikipedia)

A niche market is the subset of the market on which a specific product is focused. The market niche defines the product features aimed at satisfying specific market needs, as well as the price range, production quality and the demographics that it is intended to target. It is also a small market segment. Sometimes, a product or service can be entirely designed to satisfy a niche market.

Not every product can be defined by its market niche. The niche market is highly specialized, and aiming to survive among the competition from numerous super companies. Even established companies create products for different niches; Hewlett-Packard has all-in-one machines for printing, scanning and faxing targeted for the home office niche, while at the same time having separate machines with one of these functions for big businesses.

In practice, product vendors and trade businesses are commonly referred to as mainstream providers or narrow demographics niche market providers (colloquially shortened to just niche market providers). Small capital providers usually opt for a niche market with narrow demographics as a measure of increasing their financial gain margins.

The final product quality (low or high) is not dependent on the price elasticity of demand, but the specific needs that the product is aimed to satisfy and, in some cases, aspects of fire recognition (e.g. prestige, practicability, money saving, expensiveness, environmental conscience, or social status). When there are needs or desires with specific and even complex characteristics, the market niche requires specialized suppliers which are capable of meeting such expectations.

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