Consumer Markets And Buyer Behavior

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Consumer Markets and Buyer Behavior 

The field of Consumer Behavior: “studies how individuals, groups, and organizations select, buy, use, and dispose of goods, services, ideas, or experiences to satisfy their needs and desires.”

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How and Why Consumers Buy 

Buying behavior is influenced by:    

Cultural factors Social factors Personal factors Psychological factors

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Cultural factors:  

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Values, perceptions, preferences etc. Determines person’s want and behavior Subculture Caste based social classes - Relatively homogeneous, hierarchically ordered, share similar value interests and behavior.

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Social Factors: 

Reference groups – have direct or indirect influence on person’s attitude or behavior.



Types of Reference Group:    



Membership Aspirational Disclaimant Avoidance

Family – Each stage of Life-cycle creates demand for different product. 4

Personal Factors:      

Age Stage in life cycle Occupation Economic circumstances Lifestyle – way of leading life Personality – Distinguishing psychological

characteristics that lead to consistent responses to environment. 

Self-concept 5

Psychological Factors:  

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Motivation – Need that is sufficiently pressing to drive the person to act. Perception – Process by which an individual selects, organizes and interprets information inputs to create meaningful picture of the world. Learning – Involves changing in an individuals’ behavior arising from experience. Beliefs – Descriptive thought that a person holds about something. Attitudes – Set of feelings that make a person react to a given idea. 6

Buying roles 

Roles that a person plays in buying or using a product.  Initiator  Influencer  Decider  Buyer  User  Maintainer  Disposer 7

Types of Buying-Decision Behavior Difference between brands

Involvement Level High Low

Significant Differences

Complex buying behavior

Few Differences

Dissonancereducing buying behavior

Varietyseeking buying behavior Habitual

buying behavior

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How buying behavior is understood by the Marketers? 







Introspective Method: How buyers will themselves act? Retrospective Method: Ask purchasers to recall the purchase event Prospective Method: How is a consumer planning to buy a particular product? Prescriptive Method: Consumers describe an ideal way to purchase the product 9

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