6
Analyzing
Consumer Markets
Marketing Management, 13th ed
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?
• How do marketers analyze consumer
decision making?
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Crest Used Mobile Phones to Engage
Consumers in Its Irresistibility
Campaign
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What Influences
Consumer Behavior?
Cultural
Cultural Factors
Factors
Social
Social Factors
Factors
Personal
Personal Factors
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
Nationalities
Nationalities
Religions
Religions
Racial
Racial groups
groups
Geographic
Geographic regions
regions
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David’s Bridal Targets the Latino Sub-
Culture with its Collection of
Quinceañera Dresses
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Fast Facts About
American Culture
• The average American:
• chews 300 sticks of gum a year
• goes to the movies 9 times a year
• takes 4 trips per year
• attends a sporting event 7 times each year
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Social Classes
Upper uppers
Lower uppers
Upper middles
Middle class
Working class
Upper lowers
Lower lowers
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• Upper upper(social elite who live on inherited
wealth)
• Lower upper(person usually from middle
class who have earned income through
exceptional ability in business)
• Upper middle(concerned with careers)
• Middle class(average pay)
• Upper lower(living standard above poverty)
• Lower lower (charity)
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Characteristics of Social Classes
• Within a class, people tend to behave
alike
• Social class conveys perceptions of
inferior or superior position
• Class may be indicated by a cluster of
variables (occupation, income, wealth)
• Class designation is mobile over time
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Social Factors
Reference
Family
groups
Social
Statuses
roles
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Reference Groups
Membership
Membership groups
groups
Primary
Primary groups
groups
Secondary
Secondary groups
groups
Aspirational
Aspirational groups
groups
Dissociative
Dissociative groups
groups
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• Reference groups(direct indirect influence on
person attitude)
• Membership(direct influence)
• Primary (family, friends)vs. secondary
(professionals, religious)
• Aspirational(hopes to join) vs. dissociative(values
an individual reject)
• Family
• Social roles and statuses
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Family Distinctions
Affecting Buying Decisions
• Family of Orientation(parents
and siblings)
• Family of Procreation
(spouse and children)
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Radio Shack Targets Women with
Female Store Managers
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Roles and Status
What degree of status is
associated with various
occupational roles?
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Personal Factors
Age
Self- Life cycle
concept stage
Lifestyle Occupation
Values Wealth
Personality
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How and Why Consumers Buy
VALS 2 classifies U.S. adults into
eight psychographic groups
• Actualizers • Believers
• Fulfilleds • Strivers
• Achievers • Makers
• Experience • Strugglers
(high resources) (lower resources)
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The Family Life Cycle
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Lifestyle Influences
Multi-tasking
Time-starved
Money-constrained
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Table 6.2 LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health
and Sustainability) Market Segments
• Sustainable Economy
• Healthy Lifestyles
• Ecological Lifestyles
• Alternative Health Care
• Personal Development
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Figure 6.1
Model of Consumer Behavior
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Key Psychological Processes
Motivation Perception
Learning Memory
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Motivation
Maslow’s Herzberg’s
Freud’s Hierarchy Two-Factor
Theory of Needs Theory
Behavior Behavior Behavior is
is guided by is driven by guided by
subconscious the lowest, motivating
motivations unmet need and hygiene
factors
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
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Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory
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Perception
Selective Attention
Selective Retention
Selective Distortion
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Figure 6.3 State Farm Mental Map
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Consumer Buying Decision
Process
Understand • Initiator(idea of
buying product)
• Buying roles • Influencer(influence
• Buying behavior decision)
• Buying decision • Decider(what and
process how to buy)
• Buyer
• User
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Consumer Buying Decision
Process
Understand • Complex buying
behavior
• Buying roles • Dissonance-reducing
buying behavior
• Buying behavior • Habitual buying
• Buying decision behavior
process • Variety-seeking
buying behavior
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Consumer Buying Decision
Process
Understand • Complex buying
behavior
• Buying roles • Dissonance-reducing
buying behavior
• Buying behavior • Habitual buying
• Buying decision behavior
process • Variety-seeking
buying behavior
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• Complex buying behaviour occurs
when the consumer is highly involved
with the purchaseand when there are
significant differences between brands.
This behaviour can be associated with
thepurchase of a new home or a
personal computer
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• Dissonance-reducing buying
behaviouroccurs when the consumer
is highly involved but sees little
difference between brands. This is
likely to be the case with
the purchase of a lawn mower or a
diamond ring.
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• Habitual Buying Behavior refers to situations
where a consumer has low involvement in
a purchase, and is perceiving very few
significant differences between brands in a given
product category.
• Variety Seeking Buying Behavior refers to
situations where there is low consumer
involvement, but the consumer perceives
significant differences between the brand options
in front of them. In variety seeking situations
consumers tend to do a lot of brand switching
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Figure 6.4 Consumer Buying Process
Problem Recognition
Information Search
Evaluation
Purchase Decision
Postpurchase
Behavior
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Problem Recognition
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Sources of Information
Personal Commercial
Public Experiential
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Figure 6.5 Successive Sets Involved in
Consumer Decision Making
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Table 6.4 A Consumer’s Evaluation of
Brand Beliefs About Laptops
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Figure 6.6 Stages between Evaluation
of Alternatives and Purchase
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Perceived Risk
Functional
Functional
Physical
Physical
Financial
Financial
Social
Social
Psychological
Psychological
Time
Time
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Figure 6.7 How Customers Use and
Dispose of Products
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