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MARKETING MANAGEMENT II

By

DR. LOKESH JINDAL


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?
Tata Steel used
steeljunction® to
encourage
consumers to go
steel shopping and
to develop deeper
understanding of
individual and
household
customers.
What Influences
Consumer Behavior?

Cultural
Cultural Factors
Factors

Social
Social Factors
Factors

Personal
Personal Factors
Factors
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.
Subcultures

Nationalities
Nationalities

Religions
Religions

Geographic
Geographic regions
regions
Social Classes

SEC A

SEC B

SEC C
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
Social Factors

Reference
Family
groups

Social
Statuses
roles
Reference Groups

Membership
Membership groups
groups

-- Primary
Primary groups
groups

-- Secondary
Secondary groups
groups

Aspirational
Aspirational groups
groups

Dissociative
Dissociative groups
groups
Provogue uses teenage icons as brand
ambassadors and a youth targeted
website to connect to its customers
Roles and Status

What degree of status is


associated with various
occupational roles?
Personal Factors

Age
Self- Life cycle
concept stage

Lifestyle Occupation

Values Wealth
Personality
The Family Life Cycle
Figure 6.1
Model of Consumer Behavior
Key Psychological Processes

Motivation Perception

Learning Memory
Motivation

Maslow’s Herzberg’s
Hierarchy Two-Factor
of Needs Theory

Behavior Behavior is
is driven by guided by
the lowest, motivating
unmet need and hygiene
factors
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory
Perception

Selective Attention

Selective Distortion

Selective Retention

Subliminal Perception
Figure 6.4 Consumer Buying Process

Problem Recognition

Information Search

Evaluation

Purchase Decision

Postpurchase
Behavior
Figure 6.5 Successive Sets Involved in
Consumer Decision Making
Perceived Risk
Functional
Functional

Physical
Physical

Financial
Financial

Social
Social

Psychological
Psychological

Time
Time
Figure 6.7 How Customers Use and
Dispose of Products
Rural Consumer Behaviour

• Rural consumers are more brand loyal


• Restrictions on consumption
• Collective consumption behaviour: for
family rather than individual
• Seasonality of consumption based on
seasonality of agricultural
production/income
• Specific patterns in the five-stage
buying decision process
Marketing Debate

 Is target marketing ever bad?

Take a position:
1. Targeting minorities is exploitive.
or
2. Targeting minorities is a sound
business practice.
Marketing Discussion

 Do you have rules you employ in


spending money?
 Do you follow Thaler’s four principles
in reacting to gains and losses?

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