Chapter-5 (Part 1)
Chapter-5 (Part 1)
Chapter-5 (Part 1)
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Model of Consumer Behavior
Consumer Buyer Behavior: The buying behavior of final consumers- the individuals and households
that buy goods and services for personal consumption.
Consumer Market: All the individuals and households that buy or acquire goods and services for
personal consumption.
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What Affects Our Behavior
as
Consumers?
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Characteristics Affecting Consumer Behavior
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Cultural Factors
Culture: The set of basic values, perceptions, wants, and behaviors learned by a member of society from
family and other important institutions.
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Cultural Factors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemtDbTBwpo
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Cultural Factors
Subculture: A group of people with shared value systems
based on common life experiences and situations.
Subcultures in USA:
Hispanic American Consumers (Mexicans, Argentineans,
Cubans)
African American Consumers
Social Class: Relatively permanent and ordered divisions in a society whose members share similar values,
interest, and behaviors.
• Seven groups of Social Classes
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Cultural Factors
Total Market Strategy: Integrating ethnic themes and cross cultural perspectives within a brand’s
mainstream marketing, appealing to consumer similarities across subcultural segments rather than
differences.
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Social Factors
Social Factors: A consumer’s behavior also is influenced by social factors, such as consumer’s small groups,
social networks, family, and social roles and status.
• Word-of-mouth influence
Groups and Social Networks • Opinion Leader
• Online Social Networks
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Social Factors
Groups and Social Networks
Word-of-Mouth Influence: The impact of the personal words and recommendations of trusted friends,
family, associates, and other consumers on buying behavior.
Opinion Leader: A person within a reference group who, because of special skills, knowledge,
personality, or other characteristics, exerts social influence on others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAmLqMPHMfg
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Social Factors
Online Social Networks: Online social communities- blogs, online social media, brand communities, and
other online forums- where people socialize or exchange information and opinions.
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Social Factors
Buzz Marketing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2oj82iJ0zo
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Personal Factors
Personal Factors: A buyer’s decisions also are influenced by personal characteristics such as the buyer’s
occupation, age and stage, economic situation, lifestyle, and personality and self-concept.
Occupation
Lifestyle
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Personal Factors
Age and life-cycle stage
30+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PS1i-XzTYY
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Personal Factors
Occupation Economic Situation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrJZRhDZk0A
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Personal Factors
Lifestyle
A person’s pattern of living as expressed in his or her activities,
interests, and opinions.
Blackberry Boys
Activities- Work, hobbies, shopping, sports, social events https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Dpr1uJnb4
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Psychological Factors
Psychological Factors: A person’s buying choices are further influenced by four major psychological
factors: motivation, perception, learning, and beliefs and attitudes.
Motivation
Perception
Psychological Factors
Learning
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Psychological Factors
Motive: A need that is sufficiently pressing to direct the person to seek satisfaction of the need.
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Psychological Factors
Perception: The process by which people select, organize, and interpret information to form a meaningful
picture of the world.
• Selective Perception
• Selective Distortion
• Selective Retention
Learning: Changes in an individual’s behavior arising from experience. Learning occurs through drives,
stimuli, cues and reinforcement. Ex- Oreo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PinnMQqNr4)
Attitude: A person’s consistently favorable or unfavorable evaluations, feelings, and tendencies toward and
object or idea.
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To Be Continued…