this world of ever increasing competition and removal of barriers to trade due to the enforcement of the WTO (World Trade Organization)‚ branding has become even more important. In a situation where a multitude of alternatives are available to the consumer at lower prices‚ the establishment of a strong brand name is extremely important. A strong brand can make all the difference between a successful brand and a failure. Branding is at the heart of marketing. The reason for this statement is that
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Consumer Buying Behavior Comparison in Marketing Strategies Hainan Huang Southern New Hampshire University In order to help creating new offerings‚ improving communication‚ organizing delivery and‚ eventually‚ increasing the sale. It is important to understand the consumer buying behavior from situational‚ personality and social aspects. This paper will briefly discuss the marketing strategies of two giant retail department stores‚ Walmart and Macy’s‚ in terms of customer buying behaviors.
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bio/psycho/social model stipulates that “mental disorder can be attributed to many biological‚ psychological and social variables that work in tandem to produce healthy or unhealthy behavior” (Kearney & Trull‚ 2015‚ p. 47). The problem with this model is that it does not take into account that each human person has a free will gifted to them from God. Free will allows human beings to be the authors of their own actions instead of believing that external conditions control them. A Christian model of behavior
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Farzana (2012) this study is to explore how consumers’ psychological factors (Motivation‚ perception‚ and attitude) are associated with brand equity (brand loyalty‚ brand association‚ perceived quality‚ and brand awareness) of laptop. The result revealed that‚ consumers’ motivation to use laptop and brand association criteria work separately. They consider battery lifetime (brand association) as important feature while satisfying those purposes. Consumers’ attitudes are shaped up by others‚ especially
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understand that to satisfy the needs of consumers in very distinct markets effectively‚ they must learn to understand the differences and similarities between the peoples of the countries they are targeting (Schiffman‚ & Kanuk‚ 2007). Any product introduced on a foreign market has to be made to fit the preferences of specific attitudes of the foreign consumer (Schiffman‚ & Kanuk‚ 2007). In the case of Iams‚ it was necessary to persuade the consumer of the European market to break with their
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Consumer Behavior and Cultural Factors affecting Consumer Behavior What is Consumer Behavior? Consumer behavior deals with the study of buying behavior of consumers. Consumer behavior helps us understand why and why not an individual purchases goods and services from the market. There are several factors which influence the buying decision of consumers‚ cultural factors being one of the most important factors. What is Culture? The complex whole that includes knowledge‚ beliefs‚ arts
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"Consumer Behavior of Youth - A.Y - 2013- 2014" INTRODUCTION Youth is the time of life when one is young‚ but often means the time between childhood and adulthood. Youth is the stage of constructing the self-concept. The self-concept of youth is influenced by several variables such as peers‚ lifestyle‚ gender‚ and culture. It is the time of a person’s life in which they make choices which will affect their future. ---From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia In our country 13 to 35 years old are
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parents‚ and many other slight and major factors can all lead to an individual to commit a crime (Criminal‚ 2017.) “Three broad models of criminal behaviors are the following: psychological‚ sociological and biological models. Actually‚ it is difficult to completely separate them and it is generally accepted‚ that all of them play a role in the interpretation of behavior” (Criminal‚ 2017.) I believe that the psychological aspect is what goes into an individual deciding to commit a crime or not. The
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This is conceptualized at an aggregate level in terms of self-brand connections. Reference Groups: Social groups that are important to a consumer and against which he/she compares himself/herself. * Member group: a reference group to which an individual belongs * Aspiration Group: A reference group to which an individual wishes to belong * Consumers use others as a source of information to shape and evaluate their beliefs about the world. * Types of reference groups (Park &
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7. Richard R. Gesteland is the author of a cross-cultural business behavior model. In his model he names 4 set of attributes. Each set has 2 contrary traits. We have: * relationship-focused and deal-focused business cultures * formal and informal business cultures * polychronic and monochromic business cultures * reserved and expressive business cultures We present each set of attributes in a table to simplify the content: Relationship-focused business cultures | Deal-focused business
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