CB Unit 1
CB Unit 1
Consumer Behavior
Unit I (10)
COURSE OBJECTIVES
• To introduce basic concepts of consumer behaviour and their Introduction To Consumer Behavior:
impact on marketing strategy.
• Introduction, Consumer Behaviour - Definition
• To discuss the principal factors that influence consumers as
individuals and decision makers with an application to the • Nature and Scope of Consumer Behaviour
buying decision process.
• STP (Segmenting, Targeting, Positioning)
• To address the importance of subculture and global
consumer culture in Consumer Behavior • Customer Based Brand Equity (CBBE) Model.
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Meaning & Importance of CB, Nature & Scope What is consumer Behaviour ?
The study of the processes involved
when individuals or groups select,
purchase, use, or dispose of products,
• “There is only one boss – the customer. And he can fire services, ideas, or experiences to
everyone from the Chairman down” satisfy needs and desires
-(Solomon,2006)
Sam Walton, Founder, WalMart Stores • Professor -St Joseph's University, and
University of Manchester, UK
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Nature of CB
• Consumer behavior is always changing – just
think of how consumers spent their time online
Consumer buying behaviour 5 years ago, compared to their habits today
Is the buying behaviour of the final consumer • And with new advances in personal technology
(i.e. moving from iTunes and music downloads
to Spotify and music streaming), it’s becoming
increasingly important for marketers and
advertisers to understand where and how
consumers spend their time.
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• A consumer is a person or an organizational unit The individual who buys goods and services for his
that plays a role in the consumption of a or her own use, for household use, for the use of a
transaction with the marketer or an entity. family member, or for a friend.
A business, government agency, or other institution • Buying roles refer to the activities that one or more
(profit or nonprofit) that buys the goods, services, person(s) might perform in a buying decision. Six buying
and/or equipment necessary for the organization to roles can be distinguished:
function.
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E.g. The teenage son may have suggested buying a new car.
2. Influencer: a person whose views influence other 3. Decider: the person who ultimately determines any part of
members of the buying center in making the final decision or the entire buying decision-whether to buy, what to buy, how
to buy, or where to buy;
• the person who tries to convince others that they need • the person who makes the final decision to purchase.
the product.
e.g. The husband might choose the make.
e.g. A friend might advise the family on the kind of car to The wife might have definite desires regarding the car’s size and
buy. interior.
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4. Buyer: the person who handles the paperwork of the actual 5. User: the person(s) who consumes or uses the
purchase
product or service
• the person who is going to pay
e.g. The wife might use the car more often than her
husband.
e.g. The husband might make a financial offer.
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Consumer Behaviour
• It deals with understanding consumption patterns and behaviour. Important changes in the nature of the modern consumers
• It answers the following questions:
• ‘What’ the consumers buy: Goods & Services • Movement from collectivism to individualism
• ‘Why’ they buy it: Needs & Wants • Trade up and trade down and value vaulters
• ‘When’ do they buy it: Time: Day, week, month, year, occasions, etc
• Focus on health and fitness
• ‘Where’ they buy it: Place
• Increased consumer assertiveness
• ‘How often they buy’ it: Time interval
• ‘How often they use’ it: Frequency of use
• Boom in online shopping
• ‘Who’ influences him to buy it: Buying Roles
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Sociology
Social psychology
• This includes the study of groups as well as the group • This includes the study of how an individual operates in
dynamics in buying behavior group/groups and its effects on buying behavior
• Sociology looks at the ways entire groups function • Social psychology is the study of how individuals relate to
within society. and try to function within broader society
• E.g. family influences, lifestyles and values, and social group • E.g. reference groups and social class influences.
influences.
Group dynamics involves the influence of personality, power, and
behaviour on the group process.
Anthropology
Economics
• This is the influence of society on the individual • This is the study of income and purchasing power, and its impact
on consumer behavior.
• viz., cultural and cross-cultural issues in buying behavior,
national and regional cultures etc. • The underlying premise is that consumers make rational choices
while making purchase decisions. While resources are limited and
needs and wants many, consumers collect information, and
evaluate the various alternatives to finally make a rational decision.
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What Influences
Consumer Behavior? Personal factors
Personal Factors
• Age and life cycle stage - change in requirements of the people
over their life time (family life cycle stage)
Social Factors
• Occupation –blue collar and white collar
• Economic situation-person’s economic situation
• Lifestyle-pattern of living ,spending pattern
• Personality and self concept - the unique psychological
Cultural Factors characteristics that lead to relatively consistent and lasting
responses to one’s own environment
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Lifestyle Influences
• Sub culture - a group of people with shared value systems Multi-tasking
based on common life experiences and situations
• Social class - relatively permanent and ordered divisions Time-starved
in a society whose members share similar values, interests,
and behaviors e.g. Upper Class, Middle Class, Lower Class Money-constrained
•Segmentation
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What is Market ?
A market is a place where two parties,
usually buyers and sellers, can gather to
facilitate the exchange of goods and
services.
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Marketers, who operate globally, often segment the market segments the market
by continents/country/region in the first instance and then go for segmentation
on other bases.
National markets within a country like India, often segment the market by
region, state, district, and urban/rural area, in the first instance, and then go for
segmentation on other bases.
Demographical segmentation
Age: Based on age on can have the 1) Infants 2) Child/Teen Market 3) Youth
Market 4) Middle Aged Market 5)Elders Market
Genders: On the basis of gender, the consumer market may be classified into
male market and female market.
Social Class: Company designs their products and services for particular social
classes. There are three social classes:
1 Upper classes 2. Middle classes 3. Lower class
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Culture and social factor are the two main bases of segmentation
here. Example:
Culture: Culture influence consumer behavior deeply. A given culture brings Zee Televisions deals with a variety of channels regional channels, sports
in its own unique pattern of social conduct. A person usually acquires his channels, and movie channels.
cultural attributes right in his childhood. Culture includes religion, caste,
tradition, language, and pattern of social behavior.
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Advantages of Segmentation
Such behavioral variables are discussed below
•Occasions :(Marriages, festival occasions) • Helps distinguish one customer group from another within a given market
•Benefits sought : (Colgate- White teeth stops bad breath, Cibaca Provides • Facilitates proper choice of the target market.
Therapeutic benefits, Vicco vajradanthi and neem gives ayurvedic benefit) • Facilitates effective tapping of the market.
• Helps divide the markets and conquer them.
•Usage rate: (Light, Medium, and heavy user segments) • Helps crystallize the needs of the target buyers
• Makes the marketing effort more efficient and economic
•Attitude: Customers are divided into five groups(Enthusiastic, Positive, • Brings benefits not only to the marketer but also to the customer as well.
Indifferent, Negative, and Hostile)
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1.Measurable
• Characteristics for good segmentation • The size and purchasing power profiles of your market
should be measurable, meaning there is quantifiable data
available about it.
2. Accessible
3. Substantiality
• Accessibility means that customers and consumers are • It should be large enough and profitable.
easily reached at an affordable cost. This helps determine
how certain ads can reach different target markets and
how to make ads more profitable. • It’s usually not cost-effective to target small segments —
a segment, therefore, must be large enough to be
potentially profitable.
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4. Differentiable
5. Actionability
• The people (or organizations, in B2B marketing) in a It should be compatible with the manpower,
segment should have similar needs that are clearly financial and managerial resources
different from the needs of other people in other
segments.
To be able to provide products or services to your
segments.
6 Stable
• In order for a marketing effort to be successful, a segment should
be stable enough for a long enough period of time to be marketed
strategically.
• For example, lifestyle is often used as a way to segment. But
research has found that, internationally, lifestyle is dynamic and
constantly evolving. Thus, segmenting based on that variable
globally might not be wise.
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1. Undifferentiated Marketing All customers in the market have similar needs and want
Often referred to as mass marketing, the and can therefore be satisfied with a single marketing mix
– that is, a standard product or service, similar price
undifferentiated strategy basically ignores the levels, one method of distribution, and a promotional mix
differences between market segments and treats the that is directed at everyone.
entire market as one, single target. Fundamentally, there •IKEA are as popular offline as they are online. To put it into
is no targeting at all. Everyone is a potential customer perspective; In 2021, IKEA saw 987 million store visits and 3.5 billion
web visits. Wow. It’s impressive, but overall, it’s not too surprising as
the home-goods giant has the right price and product for almost every
consumer. Example: Gasoline, White bread, Soft Drinks, etc.
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•Production cost per unit are low on account of having one •A sales growth strategy in which several
production run for homogeneous product. market niches or population segments are
•Higher potentials of sales volume and efficiency of scale in a
targeted with different products for each niche
much larger market
or segment.
•Marketing research cost and advertising cost are relatively
low
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• Cheaper than the existing product offering The positioning concept may be functional, symbolic, or experiential.
• More economical than the existing product offering
• Both are cheaper and more economical, plus offer more • The functional concepts is relevant to products designed to solve
consumption-related problems for externally generated consumption
features than the existing product. needs. Toothpaste aiming to prevent cavities and banks offering
• Product features – such as the low calory content of some convenient services fall into this category.
foods • The symbolic concept relates to the buyer’s internally generated need for
• Product benefits – e.g. a particular model of car being the most self–enhancement, role position, group membership, or ego satisfaction.
economical way to get to work by car Cosmetics relating to lifestyle, and clothes stressing image or
appropriateness of occasion, are examples of this
• Associating the product with a use or application
• – e.g. the chocolate you have on special occasions • The experiential concept is used to position products that provide
sensory pleasure, variety, or cognitive stimulation. Documentary films and
• User category – associating the product with a user or class of books are examples of this.
user – e.g. the car for the business executive
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1. 3.
2.
Define the Specify customers’
Decide which
segments in a key purchasing
segments to target
particular market consideration
5.
4. Develop brand 6.
Evaluate positioning
to meet by Select image to set
images of competing
purchasing brand apart from
products in targeted
considerations competing products
segments
7.
Communicate image
to target customers
with appropriate
marketing mix
1. Coca-Cola Repositioning
When it is about product positioning example then Coca-Cola is
a pioneer. A very successful example, it is no wonder that the
company has been able to survive for more than 125 years. The
brand has always tried to bring out the value of happiness,
friendship, joy, and sharing to position itself in the market. This
has helped to promote engagement in consumers and in turn
encouraged them to share happy experiences and moments.
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Customers constantly make judgments about your brand and these First, examine the four categories of judgments (quality, credibility,
fall into four key categories: consideration & Superiority) listed above. Consider the following
1. Quality: Customers judge a product or brand based on its actual questions carefully in relation to these:
and perceived quality. 1. What can you do to improve the actual and perceived quality of
2. Credibility: Customers judge credibility using three dimensions – your product or brand?
expertise (which includes innovation), trustworthiness, and 2. How can you enhance your brand's credibility?
likability. 3. How well does your marketing strategy communicate your
3. Consideration: Customers judge how relevant your product is to brand's relevancy to people's needs?
their unique needs. 4. How does your product or brand compare with those of your
4. Superiority: Customers assess how superior your brand is, competitors?
compared with your competitors' brands.
• Next, think carefully about the six brand feelings listed above.
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Salience/Identity
1. Cadbury enjoys a very high brand salience on the
whole.
2. It enjoys a high recall while dealing with the areas of
brand name recognition and brand name recall with
consumers instantly linking it with its trademark
purple color.
3. Yet its “Glass and Half Full” symbol attains
moderate brand recognition.
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Performance Imagery
1. Cadbury rates very highly in the brand performance category. 1. Identifiable by people of all ages.
With a long history of chocolate manufacturing, Cadbury has
always been synonymous with quality and richness in 2. It’s a brand of the “every person”, that doesn’t differentiate
chocolate. on any grounds. Due to a large percentage of Cadbury
goods being bought through impulse, neighborhood
2. Despite facing minor issues with quality and packaging in the supermarkets are most frequented for purchases.
past, Cadbury has been swift in its approach to eradicate all
such problems.
Judgment Feelings
1. Cadbury has a high brand and product quality. 1. Cadbury is one of those brands that not only indulges the
individual but also brings the family together.
2. Consumers trust the brand and feel secure buying the product for
not only themselves but also their family and friends. 2. It is consumed not just to satisfy individual requirements
but also as a present for others or for celebrations.
3. Cadbury also has high credibility. One of its products e.g. Dairy
Milk is the world’s largest chocolate brand globally with retail sales
3. It brings about various emotions and feelings within
customers, such as warmth, happiness, and excitement. It is
of $3.2 billion & $1.2 billion in India in 2021 a “Fun” and “Feel-Good” Brand.
Source: https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/mondelez-international-aims-to-
push-up-india-revenue-to-2-billion-by-2030-122022800039_1.html
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Resonance:
1. Cadbury has a very loyal customer group base of youth,
children as well as senior citizens.
2. In some countries it is also thought of as a substitute for
dessert.
3. There is also a strong and loyal customer base consisting of
families in India where it is marketed as a loving and caring
family member.
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Unit 1 Completed
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