STP Analysis for Beginners: Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning in Three Steps

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STP Analysis for Beginners: Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning in Three Steps

People selling a small product for the first time use this beginner-friendly STP analysis template to pick the market they aim at in three steps - segmentation, targeting and positioning. The whiteboard holds a frame for the product and how you sell it today, the three STP steps, a table of three criteria by three segments, a four-quadrant grid of market appeal against your strengths, a six-area empathy map of the buyer you chose (think and feel, hear, gains, say and do, pains, see), a positioning map of price against craft, and three frames for your S, T and P. The task board runs in five columns - gather facts, split the market, choose the target, set the position and wrap up - and starts with 4 parent tasks and 12 subtasks, all not started. If you have never done an STP analysis, filling the frames from the top links S, T and P into one line of reasoning. STP is the model Kotler made popular, and the empathy map turns the buyer you chose into words you can use.

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1. The Product You Analyse and How Yo... 3. Segmentation (criteria × segments) 4. Targeting (market appeal × your st... High appeal × strengths do not help High appeal × strengths help Low appeal × strengths do not help Low appeal × strengths help 6. Positioning Map (price × craft) High price × ordinary craft High price × strong craft Low price × ordinary craft Low price × strong craft 7. S - How You Split the Market 8. T - Where You Aim 9. P - What They Should Remember STP Analysis Star... How to use: (1) W... The market you de... How you split it ... Problems and mark... What you learned ... The product you are analysinge.g. home-baked sweets sold online, $15 a box, 30 boxes a month How you sell it todaye.g. photos on social media, orders by direct message. Most buyers are people you already know. What is going wronge.g. you cannot explain who the product is for, even to yourself, and the price is just copied from the shop down the road. 2. The Three STP ... S Segmentation Split the market into look-alike groupse.g. use three criteria - age, occasion and what people value T Targeting Pick the one group you will aim ate.g. weigh market appeal against your strengths and settle on business gifts P Positioning Decide how you stand out in that groupe.g. sweets you can hand over and explain, with every ingredient named A Treat for myself B Business gift C Present Age e.g. office workers in their 20s and 30s. They buy for themselves and eat it themselves Their 30s to 50s. Handed to people they work with Over 40. Birthdays and thank-you gifts Occasion e.g. a weeknight at home, winding down. One or two pieces at a time A gift on a visit or before a meeting. One box each time An anniversary present, delivered to the person's home What they value e.g. an easy price, and light enough to keep eating Something to talk about when handed over. Keeps well Looks and wrapping. Nothing that could embarrass them 縦軸: Market appeal... e.g. presents (C). The market is large, but the big names win on wrapping and delivery. Skip it for now and look again once you can handle it. e.g. business gifts (B). Aim here. People buy a whole box at a time, and the story of the ingredients is exactly what gets talked about. Growth and the number of rivals matter too, but these two axes are enough to start. e.g. none of A, B or C landed here. Leave it empty. Decide that any market landing here is off the table. Time spent here stops the work on the market you chose. e.g. a treat for myself (A). The price is low, but the same people keep coming back. Keep it as an add-on to the business gift box. 5. Empathy Map (k... Persona (one person from the market you chose)… Think and feel What is going on in their heade.g. a safe box of sweets will not be remembered Hear What they hear around theme.g. a colleague says that one really went down well Gains The result they want (say the value from board 3 in their own words)e.g. to be told they have … Say and do What they actually say and doe.g. buy in a rush at the station the day before a vi… Pains What troubles them and what they want to avoide.g. everything looks the same, so they can only choo… See The surroundings they take ine.g. shelves of lookalike gift boxes at the station 縦軸: Price (top = ... e.g. the patisserie at the station. High on brand and location. You cannot win on that ground, so do not stand there. e.g. aim here yourself. Move to $19 a box and add a card that names where each ingredient comes from. e.g. supermarket baked sweets, $6 a box. Matching that price is not something you can keep up, so stay out of this square. e.g. small online sellers. Good ingredients at a low price. This is where you sit today. Build the reason to raise the price with the one line in board 9. Three criteria - age, occasion and what they value e.g. split into a treat for myself, a business gift and a present If the reason to buy is different, it is a different group When in doubt, split by the occasion and you rarely go wrong e.g. aim at business gifts, people in their 30s to 50s handing them to work contacts Why - they buy a whole box, and the ingredient story travels well Keep the markets you skipped, each with the reason written next to it Aim at one only. Two targets blur every move you make e.g. sweets you can hand over and explain, with every ingredient named The price is $19 a box. You are not competing on being cheap e.g. take the words from pains and gains on board 5 and put them on the product card and social media In three months, check whether that line still lands the way you meant it
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Task board contents

Gather facts 16 items

Map your product
Split the market
Pick one segment
Set your position
Note price and size
List your buyers
Name one problem
Pick 3 criteria
Form 3 segments
Add the occasion
Plot on the matrix
Narrow to one
Note what you skip
Place 3 rivals
Place yourself
Write one line

Split the market 0 items

Choose the target 0 items

Set the position 0 items

Wrap up 0 items