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Consumer Behavior

By :Dr.Garima Malik
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Outline:

1. Model of Consumer Behavior

2. Characteristics Affecting
Consumer Behavior
3. Types of Buying Decision Behavior
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Consumer Behavior

Consumer buyer behavior refers to

the buying behavior of final
consumers—individuals and
households who buy goods and 5-4
 What Is Consumer Behavior?
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• Activities people undertake when

obtaining, consuming, and disposing of
products and services
• A field of study that focuses on consumer
activities
• Scope goes beyond just why and how
people buy to include consumption
analysis
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. Types of Consumers
Personal Consumer
The 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.

Organizational Consumer
A business, government agency, or other institution
(profit or nonprofit) that buys the goods, services, and/or
equipment necessary for the organization to function.
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Influences Influences

Obtaining Consuming Disposing

Consumer Behavior
 CONSUMER INFLUENCES ORGANIZATIONAL INFLUENCES
Culture Ethnicity Brand Product Features
Personality Family AdvertisingAmity
Word of Mouth School
Business
Life-stage Values Promotions Retail Displays
Income Available Resources Price Quality
Attitudes Opinions Service Store Ambiance
Motivations Past Experiences Convenience Loyalty Programs
Feelings Peer Groups Packaging Product Availability
Knowledge

OBTAINING CONSUMING DISPOSING

·How you decide you want ·How you use the product ·How you get rid of
to buy ·How you store the product remaining product
·Other products you in your home ·How much you throw
consider buying ·Who uses the product away after use
·Where you buy ·How much you consume ·If you resell items yourself
·How you pay for product ·How product compares
·How you transport with or through a consignment
product home expectations
store
·How you recycle some
products
Consumer Behavior
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Model of Consumer Behavior

Marketing stimuli consists of the 4 Ps

Other stimuli
• Product
include:
• Economic forces
• Price 5-5

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Characteristics Affecting Consumer

Behavior

• Cultural Factors
• Buyer’s culture
• Social Factors
• Reference groups
• Buyer’s subculture
• Family
• Buyer’s social class
• Roles and status

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Characteristics Affecting Consumer

Behavior
• Personal Factors
• Age and life-cycle
stage • Psychological Factors
• Occupation • Motivation
• Economic situation • Perception
• Lifestyle • Learning
• Personality and self- • Beliefs and attitudes
concept

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Characteristics Affecting Consumer

Behavior

Culture is the learned values, perceptions,

wants, and behavior from family and other
important institutions

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Characteristics Affecting Consumer
Behavior

Subculture are groups of people within a

culture with shared value systems
based on common life experiences and
situations
• Hispanic
• African American
• Asian
• Mature consumers

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Characteristics Affecting
Consumer Behavior

Social classes are society’s relatively

permanent and ordered divisions whose
members share similar values,
interests, and behaviors

Social class is measured by a combination

of occupation, income, education,
wealth, and other variables
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Characteristics Affecting Consumer
Behavior

The major American social classes

• Upper class
• Middle class
• Working class
• Lower class

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Characteristics Affecting Consumer

Social Factors
Behavior
Groups

Membership groups have a direct influence and

to which a person belongs
Aspirational groups are groups to which an
individual wishes to belong
Reference groups are groups that form a
comparison or reference in forming attitudes or
behavior

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Characteristics Affecting Consumer

Behavior
Social Factors
Groups

Opinion leaders are people within a reference

group with special skills, knowledge,
personality, or other characteristics that can
exert social influence on others
• Buzz marketing enlists opinion leaders to
spread the word
• Social networking is a new form of buzz
marketing
• MySpace.com
• Facebook.com

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Characteristics Affecting
Consumer Behavior
Social Factors

Family is the most important consumer-buying

organization in society

Social roles and status are the groups, family,

clubs, and organizations to which a person
belongs that can define role and social status

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Characteristics Affecting Consumer

Behavior
Personal Factors

• Personal characteristics
• Age and life-cycle stage
• Occupation
• Economic situation
• Lifestyle
• Personality and self-concept
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Characteristics Affecting Consumer
Behavior

Personal Factors

Occupation affects the goods and services

bought by consumers

Economic situation includes trends in:

• Personal income
• Savings
• Interest rates

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Characteristics Affecting
Consumer Behavior

Personal Factors

Lifestyle is a person’s pattern of living as

expressed in his or her psychographics

Measures a consumer’s AIOs (activities,

interests, and opinions) to capture information
about a person’s pattern of acting and interacting
in the environment
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Characteristics Affecting Consumer

Behavior

Personal Factors

SRI Consulting’s Values and Lifestyle

(VALS) typology
• Classifies people according to how they

spend money and time

• Primary motivations
• Resources

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Characteristics Affecting
Consumer Behavior

Personal Factors

• Primary motivations
• Ideals
• Achievement
• Self-expression

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Characteristics Affecting Consumer
Behavior

Personal Factors

• Resources
• High resources
• Innovators exhibit all primary motivations
• Low resources
• Survivors do not exhibit strong primary
motivation

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Characteristics Affecting Consumer

Behavior
Personal Factors
Personality and Self-Concept

Personality refers to the unique

psychological characteristics that
lead to consistent and lasting
responses to the consumer’s
environment

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Characteristics Affecting Consumer

Behavior
Personal Factors
Personality and Self-Concept

Brand personality refers to the specific mix

of human traits that may be attributed to a
particular brand
• Sincerity
• Excitement
• Competence
• Sophistication
• Ruggedness

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Characteristics Affecting
Consumer Behavior

Personal Factors
Personality and Self-Concept

Self-concept refers to people’s

possessions that contribute to and
reflect their identities

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Characteristics Affecting
Consumer Behavior

Psychological Factors

• Motivation
• Perception
• Learning
• Beliefs and attitudes

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Characteristics Affecting
Consumer Behavior
Psychological Factors
Motivation

A motive is a need that is sufficiently

pressing to direct the person to seek
satisfaction

Motivation research refers to qualitative

research designed to probe consumers’
hidden, subconscious motivations

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Characteristics Affecting
Consumer Behavior
Psychological Factors
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• People are driven by particular needs at
particular times
• Human needs are arranged in a hierarchy from
most pressing to least pressing
• Psychological
• Safety
• Social
• Esteem
• Self-actualization

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Characteristics Affecting Consumer

Behavior
Psychological Factors

Perception is the process by which people

select, organize, and interpret information to
form a meaningful picture of the world from
three perceptual processes
• Selective attention
• Selective distortion
• Selective retention

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Characteristics Affecting Consumer

Behavior
Psychological Factors

Selective attention is the tendency for people to

screen out most of the information to which
they are exposed
Selective distortion is the tendency for people
to interpret information in a way that will
support what they already believe
Selective retention is the tendency to remember
good points made about a brand they favor
and to forget good points about competing
brands
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Characteristics Affecting
Consumer Behavior
Psychological Factors

Learning is the changes in an individual’s

behavior arising from experience and
occurs through interplay of:
• Drives
• Stimuli
• Cues
• Responses
• Reinforcement

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Characteristics Affecting Consumer

Behavior
Psychological Factors
Beliefs and Attitudes

Belief is a descriptive thought that a

person has about something based on:
• Knowledge

• Opinion

• Faith

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Characteristics Affecting Consumer

Behavior
Psychological Factors
Beliefs and Attitudes

Attitudes describe a person’s relatively

consistent evaluations, feelings, and
tendencies toward an object or idea

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Types of Buying Decision Behavior

• Complex buying behavior

• Dissonance-reducing buying behavior
• Habitual buying behavior
• Variety-seeking buying behavior

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Types of Buying Decision Behavior

Complex Buying Behavior

When consumers are highly motivated in a

purchase and perceive significant differences
among brands

Purchasers are highly motivated when:

• Product is expensive
•
Product is risky
•
Product is purchased infrequently
•
Product is highly self-expressive

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Types of Buying Decision Behavior

Dissonance-reducing buying behavior

occurs when consumers are highly involved
with an expensive, infrequent, or risky
purchase, but see little difference among
brands

Post-purchase dissonance occurs when the

consumer notices certain disadvantages of
the product purchased or hears favorable
things about a product not purchased
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Types of Buying Decision Behavior

Habitual buying behavior occurs when

consumers have low involvement and
there is little significant brand difference

Variety-seeking buying behavior occurs

when consumers have low involvement
and there are significant brand
differences

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The Buyer Decision Process

Five stages in the buyer decision process

1. Need recognition
2. Information search
3. Evaluation of alternatives
4. Purchase decision
5. Post-purchase behavior

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The Buyer Decision Process

Need Recognition

Need recognition occurs when the

buyer recognizes a problem or need
triggered by:
• Internal stimuli

• External stimuli

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The Buyer Decision Process

Information Search

Information search is the amount of

information needed in the buying process
and depends on the strength of the drive, the
amount of information you start with, the
ease of obtaining the information, the value
placed on the additional information, and the
satisfaction from searching

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The Buyer Decision Process

Information Search

Sources of information:
Personal sources—family and friends
Commercial sources—advertising, Internet
Public sources—mass media, consumer
organizations
Experiential sources—handling, examining,
using the product
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The Buyer Decision Process

Evaluation of Alternatives

Evaluation of alternatives is how the

consumer processes information to
arrive at brand choices

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The Buyer Decision Process

Purchase Decision

The purchase decision is the act by the

consumer to buy the most preferred
brand

The purchase decision can be affected by:

• Attitudes of others

• Unexpected situational factors

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The Buyer Decision Process

Post-Purchase Decision

The post-purchase decision is the

satisfaction or dissatisfaction the
consumer feels about the purchase

Relationship between:
• Consumer’s expectations

• Product’s perceived performance

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The Buyer Decision Process

Post-Purchase Decision

The larger the gap between expectation

and performance, the greater the
consumer’s dissatisfaction

Cognitive dissonance is the discomfort

caused by a post-purchase conflict
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The Buyer Decision Process

Post-Purchase Decision

Customer satisfaction is a key to

building profitable relationships with
consumers—to keeping and growing
consumers and reaping their
customer lifetime value

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The Buyer Decision Process for New
Products
New product is a good, service, or idea
that is perceived by some potential
customers as new

Adoption process is the mental process

an individual goes through from first
learning about an innovation to final
regular use

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The Buyer Decision Process for New

Products
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The Buyer Decision Process for New
Products

Stages in the Adoption Process

1. Awareness
2. Interest
3. Evaluation
4. Trial
5. Adoption

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The Buyer Decision Process for

New Products
Stages in the Adoption Process

Awareness is when the consumer

becomes aware of the new product but
lacks information

Interest is when the consumer seeks

information about the new product
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The Buyer Decision Process for
New Products

Stages in the Adoption Process

Evaluation is when the consumer

considers whether trying the new
product makes sense

Trial is when the consumer tries the new

product to improve his or her estimate
of value
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The Buyer Decision Process for

New Products

Stages in the Adoption Process

Adoption is when the consumer decides

to make full and regular use of the
product

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The Buyer Decision Process for New

Products

Individual Differences in Innovation

Early adopters are opinion leaders and adopt

new ideas early but cautiously
Early majority are deliberate and adopt new
ideas before the average person
Late majority are skeptical and adopt new ideas
only after the majority of people have tried it
Laggards are suspicious of changes and adopt
new ideas only when they become tradition

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The Buyer Decision Process for

New Products
Influence of Product Characteristics
on Rate of Adoption

Relative advantage is the degree to which an

innovation appears to be superior to existing
products

Compatibility is the degree to which an

innovation fits the values and experiences of
potential consumers

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The Buyer Decision Process for
New Products
Influence of Product Characteristics
on Rate of Adoption

Complexity is the degree to which the

innovation is difficult to understand or
use

Divisibility is the degree to which the

innovation may be tried on a limited
basis

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