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Consumer Markets & Consumer Buyer Behavior: Chapter No 6

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Consumer Markets

&
Consumer Buyer Behavior

Chapter No 6
• Consumer Buyer Behavior: The buying behavior of
final consumer-individuals and household, who buy
goods and services for personal consumption

• Consumer Market: All the individual and household,


who buy or acquire goods and services for personal
consumption

• Culture: The set of basic values, perceptions, wants


and behaviors learned by a member of society from
family and other important institutions

• Sub Culture: A group of people with shared value


systems based on common life, experiences and
situations
• Social Classes: Relatively permanent and ordered divisions
in a society, who’s members share similar values, interest
and behavior

• Group: Two or more people interact to accomplish


individual or mutual goals

• Opinion Leader: Person within a reference group who,


because of special skills, knowledge, personality other
characteristics, exerts, influence on others

• Lifestyle: A person’s pattern of living as expressed in his


or her activities, interests and opinion

• Personality: A person’s distinguishing psychological


characteristics that lead to relatively constant and
lasting responses to his or her own environment
• Motive (Drive): A need that is sufficiently pressing to direct
the person to seek satisfaction of the need

• Perception: The process by which people select, organize and


interpret information to form a meaning picture of the world

• Learning: Changes in an individual’s behavior experience

• Belief: A descriptive thought that a person hold about


something

• Attitude: A person’s constantly favorable or unfavorable


evaluations, feeling, and tendencies toward an object or idea

• Complex buying behavior: Consumer buying behavior in situation


characterize by high consumer involvement in a purchase and
significant perceived differences among brands
• Dissonance-reducing buying behavior: Consumer buying
behavior in situation characterize by high involvement but
few perceived differences among brand

• Habitual Buying Behavior: Consumer buying behavior in


situations characterize by low consumer involvement in few
significant perceived brand differences

• Variety-Seeking Buying Behavior: Consumer buying behavior


in situation characterize by low consumer involvement but
significant perceived brand differences

• Need Recognition: The first stage of the buyer decision


process in which the consumer recognizes a problem or need

• Information Search: The stage of the buyer decision


process in which the consumer is aroused to search for
more information; the consumer may simply behave high-
tended

• attention or may go into active information search


• Alternative Evaluation: The stage of the buyer decision
process in which the consumer uses information to evaluate
alternative brands in the choice set

• Purchase Decision: The stage of the buyer decision process in


which the consumer buys the product

• Post Purchase Behavior: The stage of the buyer decision


process in which consumer take further action after purchase
based their satisfaction or dissatisfaction

• Cognitive Dissonance: Buyer discomfort cost by post purchase


conflict

• New Product: A good, service or idea that is perceived by some


potential customer as new

• Adoption Process: The mental process through an individual


passes from first hearing about an innovation to final adoption
• Business Market: All organizations that buy goods and
services for use in the production of other products and
services that are sold, rented or supplied to others

• Business Buying Process: The decision-marketing process by


which business buyers establish the need for purchased
products and services and identify, evaluate, and choose
among alternative brands and suppliers

• Derived demand: Business demand that ultimately comes


from (derives form) the demand for consumer goods

• Straight Rebuy: A business buying situation in which the


buyer routinely reorders something without any
modifications
• Modified Rebuy: A business buying situation in which the
buyer wants to modify product specifications, prices, terms
or suppliers

• New Task: A business buying situation in which the buyer


purchases a product or service for the first time

• Systems Buying: Buying a packaged solution to a problem


from a single seller

• Buying Center: All the individual and units that participate in


the business buying – decision process

• Users: Members of the organization, who will use the


product or service; users often initiate the buying proposal
and help define product specification
• Influencer: People in an organization’s buying center who
effect the buying decision; they often help define
specification and also provide information for evaluating
alternatives

• Deciders: people in the organization‘s buying center who


have formal or informal power to select or approve the final
suppliers

• Gate Keepers: people in the organization‘s buying center who


control the flow of information to others

• Problem Recognition: The first stage of the business buying


process in which someone in the company recognizes a
problem or a need that can be met by acquiring a good or
service
• General Need Description: The stage in the business buying
process in which the company describes the general
characteristics and quantity of a needed item

• Product Specification: the stage of the business buying process


in which the buying organization decides on and specifies the
best technical product characteristics for a needed item

• Value Analysis: An approach to cost reduction, in which


components are studied carefully to determine if they can be
redesigned, standardized or made by less costly methods of
production

• Supplier Search: The stage of the business buying process in


which the buyer tries to find the best vendors

• Proposal Solicitation: The stage of the business buying process


in which the buyer reviews proposals and selects a supplier or
suppliers
• Order –Routine Specification: The stage of the business
buying process in which the buyer writes the final order with
the chosen supplier (s) listing the technical specifications,
quantity needed, expected time of delivery, return polices
and warranties

• Performance Review: The stage of the business buying


process in which the buyer rates its satisfaction with
suppliers, deciding whether to continue, modify or drop them

• Institutional Market: Schools, hospital, nursing homes,


prisons and other institutions that provide good and services
to people in their care

• Government Market: Government units – federal state, and


local – that purchase or rent goods and services for carrying
out the main functions of government

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