Consumer Behavior Chapter 1
Consumer Behavior Chapter 1
Personal Consumer
End user = individual who buys goods and services for his or her own use, for household use, for the use of a family member, or for a friend.
Production Orientation
Sales Orientation
Marketing Concept
1. Production Orientation
From the 1850s to the late 1920s Companies focus on production/manufacturing capabilities in order to expand production No product variation Consumer demand exceeded supply
2. Sales Orientation
From the 1930s to the mid 1950s Too many products: from production to selling Focus on selling: sell more of what the manufacturing department was able to produce Supply exceeded customer demand
3. Marketing Concept
1950s to current - Focus on the customer! Determine the needs and wants of specific target markets Deliver satisfaction better than competition
Production Orientation
Sales Orientation
Marketing Concept
Consumers are highly complex Subject to a variety of social and psychological needs quite apart from their basic functional needs The process and tools used to study consumer behavior
Segmentation
Market Targeting Positioning
Many people develop the same needs. This commonality of needs constitutes many of the ingredients of a consumer market segment
Process of dividing the market into subsets of consumers with common needs or characteristics
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Market Targeting
Positioning
The selection of one or more of the segments identified to pursue Low calories drink as a criteria for selecting targeting markets
Positioning
Developing a distinct image for the product in the mind of the consumer Successful positioning includes:
Communicating the benefits of the product rather than the product features Communicating a unique selling proposition-that is a distinctive benefit or point of difference for the product or service
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Price
List price Discounts, Allowances Payment methods Marketing Mix
Place
Distribution of the product Store or nonstore outlets
Promotion
Advertising Sales promotion Public relations Personal Selling
Good marketers today realize that in order to outperform competitors they must achieve the full potential from each and every customer. Employees should view any exchange with a as part of a customer relationship and not a transaction.
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Successful Relationships
Value, Satisfaction, Trust, and Retention
Customer Value Customer Satisfaction Customer Trust Customer Retention
Defined as the ratio between the customers perceived benefits
(economic, functional, psychological) and the resources (monetary, time, effort used to obtain those benefits, psychological)
Perceived value is relative and subjective Developing a value proposition is critical (a unique selling proposition)
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Successful Relationships
Value, Satisfaction, Trust, and Retention
Customer Value Customer Satisfaction Customer Trust Customer Retention
The individual's perception of the performance of the product or service in relation to his or her expectations. (function of customer expectation)
Expectations=Experience Satisfied Expectations>Experience delighted Expectations<Experience dissatisfied
Customer groups based on loyalty include loyalists, apostles, defectors, terrorists, hostages, and mercenaries
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Loyalist: Keep purchasing Apostles: Experiences exceed expectations, provide positive word of mouth Defectors: feel neutral or merely satisfied Terrorists: had bad experience, spread negative word of mouth Hostages: unhappy customers, stay with the company only because of monopolistic environment/frequent complains Mercenaries: being satisfied but do not have any real loyalty Companies should strive to create apostles, raise the satisfaction of defectors loyalists and avoid having terrorists/hostages and reduce the number of mercenaries
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Successful Relationships
Value, Satisfaction, Trust, and Retention
Establishing and maintaining trust is essential to online and off-lien retailers Trust is the foundation for maintaining a long-standing relationship with customers; increases the chance of customer loyalty (Trust)
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Successful Relationships
Value, Satisfaction, Trust, and Retention
The objective of providing value is to retain highly satisfied customers. Loyal customers are key
They buy more products They are less price sensitive; pay less attention to competitors ads Servicing them is cheaper They spread positive word of mouth
Customer Retention
More products and services through customization Instantaneous exchanges Collect and analyze data