Buying behaviour Flashcards
What are the reasons for product purchasing by organisations? B2B
- For use in the operation of a business or organization.
- To manufacture other products
- For resale to others
What are the reasons for product purchasing by consumers? B2C
•For personal or household use
What is consumer behaviour?
- The study of how individuals, groups, and organizations select, buy, use, and dispose of goods, services, ideas, or experiences to satisfy their needs or wants.
- How consumer physchology impacts their attitudes, beliefs and behaviours
What is the consumer decision-making process?
1• Need recognition 2•Information search 3•Evaluation of alternatives 4•Purchase 5•Post-purchase evaluation of alternatives
What is the need recognition stage? and application in sport
•Buying process starts - recognize problem/need
•Need triggered by stimuli
-Internal stimulus: normal needs, hunger
-External stimulus: love new sports car- triggers buying one
• Like other services problem is in a sense need for more excitement or opportunity to enjoy something in sport e.g. to go watch a match unless buying sports products
What do marketers need to understand from the need recognition stage?
- Identify situation that trigger need
- Develop strategies that trigger interest
- Important with discretionary purchase
What is the information search stage? and application to sport
Identifying alternative ways of problem solution through an internal and external search. Aim is to build up up an array of brands that may provide a solution to the problem called the awareness set.
e.g. if sport event- search may be which match to watch your team
What is the importance of information search for marketers?
- Consumer’s other brands in awareness set - competition
- Identify sources & importance
- Prepare effective communications for target market
What is the evaluation of alternatives stage? and sport example
Value judgment process - conscious & rational in order to turn awareness set into evoked/choice set (brands that will be seriously considered)
e.g. which match ill be best to watch
What are consumers evaluation thought process in the evaluation stage?
- Try to satisfy a need
- Look for certain benefits in solution
- Each with attributes, benefits sought
- Time spent evaluating depends on the involvement of product
What are some evaluation of alternative criteria?
- Technical-e.g. Reliability, Durability, Performance
- Economic-e.g.Price, Value for money, Running costs
- Personal-e.g.Self-image, Risk reduction, Ethics
- Social-e.g. Status, Social belonging, Fashion
What are the intervening factors between the evaluation of alternatives and the purchase decision?
•Attitudes of others:
- Intensity of other’s attitude
- Motivation to comply with other’s wishes
•Unanticipated situational factors-game postponed due to weather, time/money constraints
What is the post-purchase behaviour stage?
Level of satisfaction/dissatisfaction felt by consumers after buying their product.
What are some sources in the information search stage?
- Commercial-ads
- Public
- Personal-family and friends
- Experiencial-demo-racket
What are some post-purchase actions?
- Buy again if satisfied with product/service
- Abandon/return product if dissatisfied
- Public action - complain, go to lawyer
- Private actions - stop buying or warn friends