Chapter 1 – consumer behavior 1. Decision making at margin marginal cost: the additional cost of consuming or producing one more unit of a good marginal benefit: the additional benefit of consuming or producing one more unit of good Utility: satisfaction derived from consuming units of good consumed in a given period of time Marginal utility: additional satisfaction gained from consuming an extra unit of good within a period of time 2. The law of diminishing utility marginal utility
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Introduction to Consumer Behavior What is Consumer behavior? – pg 6-8 Consumer Behavior The study of individuals‚ groups‚ or organizations and the processes they use to select‚ secure‚ use‚ and dispose of products‚ services‚ experiences‚ or ideas to satisfy needs and the impacts that these processes have on the consumer and society. Application of consumer behavior – pg 9-11 1) Marketing Strategy 2) Regulatory Policy Social Marketing The application of marketing strategies and tactics
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Marketers expend considerable effort to have consumers learn about their products. Therefore it is vital that we understand how consumers‚ and that includes us‚ learn. Learning: Learning refers to any change in the content or organisation of long-term memory. Consumer behaviour is largely learned behaviour. Learning is defined as any change in the content or organisation of long-term memory. Consumers must learn almost everything related to being a consumer: product existence‚ performance‚ availability
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Consumer Behavior A Vera Bradley handbag can be one of the many fashion statements made by almost any female ranging from the age of 10 to 90. “Vera Bradley is a leader in fashionable‚ colorful‚ cotton quilted handbags‚ accessories‚ luggage‚ and paper and gift items for women of every age.” As one can see this product is mostly purchased by women. However‚ each individual has their own personal characteristics like gender‚ age‚ family life cycle‚ personality‚ self-concept‚ and lifestyle that influence
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CHAPTER 3 – LEARNING AND MEMORY • Marketers understand that long-standing‚ learned connections between products and memories are a potent way to build and keep brand loyalty. • Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior caused by experience (not always directly‚ but by observation of events that affect others). - An ongoing process - Ranges from simple association between a stimulus (product logo - Coke) to a response (“refreshing soft drink”) – to a complex series of cognitive
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COUNTRY OF ORIGIN OF A PRODUCT ON CONSUMERS’ BUYING BEHAVIOR By FIREW KIFLE GUDERO Bachelor of Arts in Business Management Jimma University Jimma‚ Ethiopia July 2001 Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of the Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE May‚ 2009 COPY RIGHT BY FIREW KIFLE GUDERO MAY 2009 THE EFFECT OF COUNTRY OF ORIGIN OF A PRODUCT ON CONSUMERS’ BUYING BEHAVIOR Thesis Approved: Dr. Todd J
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activity as well as to overt actions. Secondly‚ learning results in relatively permanent changes in behavior. This excludes changes brought about by fatigue or other short-lived influences such as drug-induced behavior. Thirdly‚ we must exclude the effects of physical damage to the body or brain and of natural human growth. Types of learned behavior a) Physical Behaviour People learn many physical behaviors in everyday life. Firstly‚ all healthy humans learn to walk‚ talk and socialize. Secondly‚ they
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CHAPTER 1 QUESTION 1: Explain the concept of the 80/20 rule and why it is important to marketers. The 80/20 rule of marketing is derived from the broader Pareto Principle concept introduced by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto in 1906. Pareto noted that the majority of wealth in a free market economy is concentrated within a relatively small group of people -- roughly 20 percent of the population. Importance of rule 80/20 to marketers: Marketing investment: relates to how money is spent on advertising
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An analysis on Wahaha’s marketing strategies in applying consumer behaviour theories Hangzhou Wahaha Group is a private group of companies‚ featuring beverage products‚ which also has become one of major beverage producers in China. The name ‘Wahaha’ is a children’s folk rhyme and also stands for the sound of children’s laugh in Chinese. The company is run by zong qinhou who started the business by selling ice cream and sodar on a tricycle in 1987. (Wahaha‚ 2012)The turning point of his business
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market on the basis of Australia consumers’ self image. Describe the four types of consumer self-image and discuss which one would be most effective? There have 4 types of self image which are actual self image mean that how consumers see themselves; the second one is ideal self image mean that consumers would like to see themselves; third one is social self image mean how consumers feel other see them and the last one is ideal social self image which mean how consumers would like others to see them
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