Consumer Processing Model
Consumer Processing Model
Consumer Processing Model
The Consumer Processing Model shows marketers how buyers make decisions in a rational, systematic,
and reasoned way. This model generally follows a series of eight steps that consumers go through in
making purchasing choices:
Marketers who want to appeal to consumers using this model typically use straightforward, matter-of-
fact advertising, perhaps highlighting a product's benefits and characteristics.
One of the best examples of marketing directed at rational and reasoned decision-making is the
approach used by consumer products manufacturer Procter & Gamble. Procter & Gamble is well-known
for products such as Tide, Bounty, and Pampers. In marketing its products, Procter & Gamble chooses a
simple approach designed to appeal to the rational side of a consumer. Your baby needs diapers,
Pampers has you covered. You need to clean up spills efficiently in your kitchen? Try Bounty.
Using the eight-step model for buying diapers, the consumer journey may look like this:
Illustration of an HEM-Oriented
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