6 Analyzing Consumer Markets
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Chapter Questions • How do consumer characteristics influence buying behavior? • What major psychological processes influence consumer responses to the marketing program? • How do consumers make purchasing decisions? • In what ways do consumers stray from a deliberate rational decision process? Copyright
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Consumer Behaviour • Consumer behavior is the study of how individuals, groups, and organizations select, buy, use, and dispose of goods, services, ideas, or experiences to satisfy their needs and wants. Marketers must fully understand both the theory and reality of consumer behavior.
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What Influences Consumer Behavior? Cultural Factors
Social Factors
Personal Factors
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What is Culture? • Culture is the fundamental determinant of a person’s wants and behaviors acquired through socialization processes with family and other key institutions.
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Subcultures • • • •
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Nationalities Religions Racial groups Geographic regions
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Social Classes Upper uppers Lower uppers Upper middles Middle Working Upper lowers Lower lowers Copyright
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Social Factors Reference groups Family Social roles Statuses
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Reference Groups • • • • •
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hip groups Primary groups Secondary groups Aspirational groups Disassociative groups
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Family • The family of orientation consists of parents and siblings. • A more direct influence on everyday buying behavior is the family of procreation— namely, the person’s spouse and children.
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Personal Factors
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Age Life cycle stage Occupation Wealth
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Personality Values Lifestyle Self-concept
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Age and Stage in the Life Cycle • Our taste in food, clothes, furniture, and recreation is often related to our age. • Consumption is also shaped by the family life cycle and the number, age, and gender of people in the household at any point in time. • Adults experience certain “ages” or “transformations” as they go through life.
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Occupation and Economic Circumstances • Occupation also influences consumption patterns. • As the recent recession clearly indicated, both product and brand choice are greatly affected by economic circumstances: – spendable income (level, stability, and time pattern), – savings and assets (including the percentage that is liquid), – debts, borrowing power, and attitudes toward spending and saving. Copyright
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Personality and Brand Personality • Personality - a set of distinguishing human psychological traits that lead to relatively consistent and enduring responses to environmental stimuli (including buying behaviour). • Brand personality - the specific mix of human traits that we can attribute to a particular brand.
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Brand Personality • • • • •
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Sincerity Excitement Competence Sophistication Ruggedness
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Self Concept • Consumers often choose and use brands with a brand personality consistent with their actual self-concept (how we view ourselves), although the match may instead be based on the consumer’s ideal self-concept (how we would like to view ourselves) or even on others’ self-concept (how we think others see us).
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Lifestyle and Values • A lifestyle is a person’s pattern of living in the world as expressed in activities, interests, and opinions. – Marketers search for relationships between their products and lifestyle groups.
• Core values are the belief systems that underlie attitudes and behaviours. – Marketers who target consumers on the basis of their values believe that with appeals to people’s inner selves, it is possible to influence their outer selves—their purchase behaviour. Copyright
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Table 6.2 LOHAS Market Segments
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Figure 6.1 Model of Consumer Behavior
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Motivation
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Freud’s Theory
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory
Behavior is guided by subconscious motivations
Behavior is driven by lowest, unmet need
Behavior is guided by motivating and hygiene factors
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Figure 6.2 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
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Perception • • • •
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Selective attention Selective retention Selective distortion Subliminal perception
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Learning • Learning induces changes in our behavior arising from experience. • A drive is a strong internal stimulus impelling action. • Cues are minor stimuli that determine when, where, and how a person responds. • Discrimination means we have learned to recognize differences in sets of similar stimuli and can adjust our responses accordingly. Copyright
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Emotions • Consumer response is not all cognitive and rational; much may be emotional and invoke different kinds of feelings. • A brand or product may make a consumer feel proud, excited, or confident. An ad may create feelings of amusement, disgust, or wonder.
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Memory • Cognitive psychologists distinguish between short-term memory (STM)—a temporary and limited repository of information—and long-term memory (LTM)—a more permanent, essentially unlimited repository.
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Memory Processes • Memory encoding describes how and where information gets into memory. • Memory retrieval is the way information gets out of memory.
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Figure 6.3 Hypothetical Dole Mental Map
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Figure 6.4 Five- Stage Model of the Consumer Buying Process Problem Recognition Information Search Evaluation of alternatives Purchase Decision Postpurchase Behavior
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Sources of Information
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Personal
Commercial
Public
Experiential
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Figure 6.5 Successive Sets in Decision Making
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Table 6.4 A Consumer’s Brand Beliefs about Laptop Computers
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Figure 6.6 Steps Between Alternative Evaluation & Purchase
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Non-Compensatory Models of Choice • Conjunctive • Lexicographic • Elimination-by-aspects
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Perceived Risk • • • • • •
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Functional Physical Financial Social Psychological Time
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Figure 6.7 How Customers Use or Dispose of Products
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Moderating Effects on Consumer Decision Making • The manner or path by which a consumer moves through the decision-making stages depends on several factors, including the level of involvement and extent of variety seeking.
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Decision Heuristics • Availability • Representativeness • Anchoring and adjustment
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Framing • Decision framing is the manner in which choices are presented to and seen by a decision maker.
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Mental ing • Consumers tend to… – Segregate gains – Integrate losses – Integrate smaller losses with larger gains – Segregate small gains from large losses
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