2. Chapter 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?
3. Tata Steel used
steeljunction® to
encourage
consumers to go
steel shopping
and to develop
deeper
understanding of
individual and
household
customers.
6. 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.
8. Social Classes
Upper uppers
Lower uppers
Upper middles
Middle class
Working class
Upper lowers
Lower lowers
9. 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
19. Faysal Bank of
Pakistan has
extended
banking hours
for time-
pressed
executives.
20. Table 6.2 LOHAS (Lifestyles of
Health and Sustainability) Market
Segments
• Sustainable Economy
• Healthy Lifestyles
• Ecological Lifestyles
• Alternative Health Care
• Personal Development
22. Motivation
Maslow’s Herzberg’s
Freud’s Hierarchy Two-Factor
Theory of Needs Theory
Behavior Behavior Behavior is
is guided by is driven by guided by
subconscious the lowest, motivating
motivations unmet need and hygiene
factors
36. 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
37. Other Theories of
Consumer Decision Making
Involvement Decision Heuristics
• Elaboration • Availability
Likelihood Model • Representativeness
• Low-involvement • Anchoring and
marketing adjustment
strategies
• Variety-seeking
buying behavior
38. Mental Accounting
• Consumers tend to…
– Segregate gains
– Integrate losses
– Integrate smaller losses with larger gains
– Segregate small gains from large losses
39. Marketing Debate
Is target marketing ever bad?
Take a position:
1. Targeting minorities is exploitive.
or
2. Targeting minorities is a sound
business practice.
40. Marketing Discussion
Do you have rules you employ in
spending money?
Do you follow Thaler’s four principles
in reacting to gains and losses?