Chapter 4: Consumers Flashcards

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Model of consumer behaviour

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Marketing stimuli(4 Ps) > consumer’s mind > Buyer’s response

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Consumer decision making processes

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Need recognition –> Information Search –> Evaluation of alternatives –> Product choice –> Post-purchase/consumption

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Consumer analysis

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  • Aggregate (Macro) analysis
  • Individual (Micro) Analysis
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Aggregate (Macro) analysis

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  • Demographic trends: Rate of population growth, age distribution, roles of gender at workplace, income distribution, geographic centers of population
  • Consumer buying trends:
    Focus: Self, family, world
    Consumption values: Price, value, quality
    Scarce resources: Money, time, people
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Individual (Micro) consumer analysis

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  • Personal characteristics: Age, income, gender, self- concept, personality
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Rational consumers

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  • Clearly knows their problem
  • Knows all alternatives
  • Knows all criteria, compares criteria to alternatives and makes the best choice
  • ie, we’re utility maximizing consumers
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Three broad types of decision modes

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  1. Utilitarian
  2. Mundane
  3. Self-expressive
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Utilitarian decision modes

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Driven by functionality, price, and performance

Know > Feel > Do

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Mundane decision modes

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Habitual purchases driven by availability

Do > know > feel

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Self-expressive decision modes

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Emotional and driven by relevance to self. We buy the product cause it represents who we are and we’re emotionally connected to it

Feel > Do > know

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The REAL consumer

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  • Emotional, but also rational
  • In truth, we’re lazy, we take shortcuts, and we forget
  • ie, we’re boundedly rational (Rational within certain bounds)
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2 Customer value motives

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  1. Manifest motives
  2. Latent motives
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Manifest motives

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Obvious values of the product

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Latent motives

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Underlying values of the product like status

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Understanding customer needs

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Understanding consumer needs

Motivation:
- Physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization (Maslow Hierarchy of Needs)

Value Laddering

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Information acquisition

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  1. Bottom-Up
  2. Top-Down
  3. Perception
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Bottom-Up

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  • New information, trying to make sense (Learning a new language
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Top-Down

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  • Guided by existing knowledge in memory. (For example, failing to notice a typographical error such as the one you just passed.
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Perception

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Select, organize, and interpret information

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Pertinence

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  • Situational factors: Occasion, time, pressure
  • Individual differences: Level of involvement
  • Product factors: Cost/investment
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Evaluation of alternatives

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Evaluation of alternatives

  • Idea that consumers value brands based on the delivery and importance of benefits
  • Value to the customers is the importance of benefit multiplied by delivery of benefits. If product has multiple benefits, use the sum of all of them
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Customer aggregation process

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  1. Linear Model
  2. Lexicographic
  3. Conjunctive
  4. Elimination by aspects
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Linear model

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Decision based on all attributes given equal weight

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Lexicographic

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Decision based on most important attribute, then the next if tied

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Conjunctive model

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Decision based on any cutoff points. Eliminate brands that do not satisfy any cutoff level.

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Elimination by aspects model

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Decisions are based on going from the most important attribute and eliminating brands that do not satisfy the cutoff level.

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Post-purchase behaviour

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  • Based on consumer expectations and perceived product performance, consumers are either satisfied, dissatisfied, or experience cognitive dissonance
  • Is it a relationship or purely transactional, is it a long-term partnership or not (Customer loyalty)
28
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Business Market: Overview

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Compared to consumers, business markets have:

  • Fewer numbers but more volume
  • Geographical concentration
  • More complex decision-making
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Business Decision Process

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  1. Users: Actual users of the product – Functional Units
  2. Influencers: Experts and opinion leaders - MIS
  3. Buyers: Negotiate with vendors, place the orders - Admin
  4. Deciders: Power to select vendors - Dept heads, Finance.
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Reasons why role of marketer is complex

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  • Many ppl need to be managed
  • Different roles
  • Final selection isbased on prices
  • There needs to be justification behind a purchase
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How marketers could be more effective

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How marketers could be more effective:
- Build strong relationships
- Manage all involved in decision-making
- Provide superior service: delivery, spares,
maintenance
- Make the decision easy: offer a strong brand