2. Course Outline
• What is marketing?
• The implications of Consumer Behaviour
• The Business Model Canvas
• The Value Proposition Canvas
• Making use of Market Research
• Integrated Marketing Communications
4. Marketing ….
• is a management process
• is about seducing/delighting
customers
• identifies and anticipates
requirements
• meets customers wants and needs
profitably
5. Environmental Scanning Defined
Environmental Scanning is the
collection and evaluation of
information from the wider marketing
environment that might affect the
organisation and its strategic
marketing activities
6. Elements of the External Environment
Technological
Political/
regulatory
Sociocultural
Economic/
Competitive
Chosen Business
8. Changes in Leisure Activities
• Earlier retirements
• Desire for travel abroad
• Active holiday agendas
*Social Amenities for the Golden Age
9. Issues to Consider
• Population distribution
• Household patterns (e.g., average
number of occupants per household,
expenditures across product categories)
• Available disposable income
• Changes in consumer preferences
10. Task 1
Using our case study, identify as many
external factors that might impact upon our
ability to sell our products and services
successfully….
(10 minutes)
12. Consumer Behaviour looks at ….
• The psychology of how consumers think, feel, reason, and
select between different alternatives (e.g. brands, products, and
retailers)
• The psychology of how the consumer is influenced by his or
her environment (e.g. culture, family, signs, media)
• The behaviour of consumers while shopping or making other
marketing decisions
• How consumer motivation and decision strategies differ
between products that differ in the level of importance or interest
that they have for the consumer
• How marketers can adapt and improve their marketing
campaigns and marketing strategies to more effectively reach the
consumer
13. Consumer Buying Decision-Making Process
Situational
influences
Individual
influences
Group
influences Marketing mix
Decision-making
process
14. Consumer Buying Decision-Making Process
Situational
influences
Individual
influences
Group
influences Marketing mix
Decision-making
process
15. Situational Influences
Defined: the situation in which consumers receive
information has an impact on their behaviour.
Whether one is alone or in a group, in a good
mood or bad, in a hurry or not influences the
degree in which one sees and listens to market
communications.
Is it better to advertise near a happy or sad TV
program? Calm or exciting?
16. Consumer Buying Decision-Making Process
Situational
influences
Individual
influences
Group
influences Marketing mix
Decision-making
process
17.
18. Consumer Buying Decision-Making Process
Situational
influences
Individual
influences
Group
influences Marketing mix
Decision-making
process
23. Information Evaluation
… involves a process of narrowing
down a wide list of potential
options to an evoked set, typically
by constructing performance criteria
with which to judge choices.
24. • Consumers may use rules of thumb to
decide:
Choose the cheapest
Choose the most expensive
Select the brand used before
Others?
Decision
31. Consumer Buying Decision-Making Process
Situational
influences
Individual
influences
Group
influences Marketing mix
Decision-making
process
32. Personality
Personality can play a role
in consumer behaviour,
particularly with high
involvement products (e.g.
choice of holiday, car,
location of home..)
35. Consumer Buying Decision-Making Process
Situational
influences
Individual
influences
Group
influences Marketing mix
Decision-making
process
36. Group Membership
Affects individuals by helping to
• Differentiate between essential and non-
essential purchases
• Prioritise purchases where resources are limited
• Define meaning of a product and its benefits
• Foresee post-purchase implications
42. Task 2
• Several of your friends tell you about a great movie that has just
come out
• When you go to your friends’ homes, they usually serve some
unusual cocktails. This has become a talking point among your
friends. Next week your friends are coming to your house
• You overhear another student stating that Heinz is their favorite
brand of Baked Beans
• When you flick through a magazine, you notice that several
celebrities are wearing the same style/look of clothes
• You start a new job. You dress very formally on the first day, but
you notice that most other employees at your level dress more
casually
• You’re about to buy a new smart phone and read in the newspaper
that Apple’s smart phone is now the most popular one in the world
45. Geographic Segmentation
and Instant Hot Chocolate
• Ideal for UK market (homes
equipped with kettles, nice
bedtime drink, or substitute
for tea, low calorie treat)
• Less so for French market
(kettles uncommon, norm of
making hot chocolate with
milk rather than water)
53. Why Use Psychographic Segmentation?
• To define a target market
• To create a new view of the market
• To position the product
• To better communicate product attributes
• To develop overall strategy
• To market social and political issues
57. Once segment defined….
What about individual consumer’s
relationship with the product/service?
…. “Buyer readiness”
58. Loyalty Segments
• Current loyal user, continuing purchase
• Current customer, switching possible
• Occasional user, could become loyal
• Occasional user, switching possible
• Non-user, could become user
• Non-user, unlikely to become user
59. The AIDA Response Hierarchy Model
(a.k.a. The Loyalty Ladder)
Awareness
Interest
Desire
Action
St. Elmo Lewis (1908)
60. Is it appropriate to define,
identify and target segment for
all consumer products?
63. Differentiated Strategy
Marketing mix 1 Segment 1
Marketing mix 2
Marketing mix 3
Segment 2
Segment 3
e.g. Ford and Cadbury : more expensive but
spread risk of loss of market share : detect new
opportunities earlier
66. Concentrated Strategy
Marketing mix 2 Segment 2
e.g. Local farm shop : detailed customer knowledge : high
risk : if competitor’s spot profit may enter market with
economies of scale of differentiated strategy
(e.g. supermarkets)
67. Task 3
What do you think a business model is?
What is it for?
10 minutes