Why do we need to learn about consumer buying behavior? The simple answer is that no longer can we take the customers for granted. Consumer buying behavior determines how our consumers decide to buy our product and what are the various factors responsible for this decision?
Out of 11000 new products introduced by 77 companies, only 56% are present after 5 years. Only 8% of new product concepts offered by 112 leading companies reached the market. Out of that 83% failed to meet marketing objectives. What we need to understand here is why consumers make the purchases that they make, what factors influence consumer purchases and changing factors in our society…
The central focus of marketing is the consumer. To devise good marketing plans, it is necessary to examine consumer behavioral attributes and needs, lifestyles, and purchase processes and then make proper marketing-mix decisions. The study of Consumer behavior includes the study of what they buy, why they buy, how they buy, when they buy, from where they buy, and how often they buy. An open-minded consumer-oriented approach is imperative in today’s diverse global marketplace so a firm can identify and serve its target market, minimize dissatisfaction, and stay ahead of competitors. Final consumers purchase for personal, family, or household use.
Major Factors affecting consumer buying behavior
Cultural factors affecting consumer buying behaviour:
Cultural factors have a significant impact on customer behavior.Culture is the most basic cause of a person’s wants and behavior. Growing up, children learn basic values, perception and wants from the family and other important groups. Marketers are always trying to spot “cultural shifts” which might point to new products that might be wanted by customers or to increased demand.
Social factors affecting consumer buying behavior:
A customer’s buying behavior is also influenced by social factors, such as the groups to which the customer belongs and social status.
Each culture contains “sub-cultures” – groups of people with share values. Sub-cultures can include nationalities, religions, racial groups, or groups of people sharing the same geographical location. Sometimes a sub-culture will create a substantial and distinctive market segment of its own. For example, the “youth culture” or “club culture” has quite distinct values and buying characteristics from the much older “gray generation”
Similarly, differences in social class can create customer groups. In fact, the official six social classes in the UK are widely used to profile and predict different customer behavior. In the UK’s socioeconomic classification scheme, social class is not just determined by income. It is measured as a combination of occupation, income, education, wealth and other variables
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You said in § 2 : “Out of 11000 new products introduced by 77 companies, only 56% are present after 5 years. Only 8% of new product concepts offered by 112 leading companies reached the market. Out of that 83% failed to meet marketing objectives. What we need to understand here is why consumers make the purchases that they make, what factors influence consumer purchases and changing factors in our society…”
Could you please specify your data sources of this topic : article, books, analytical report ? Thx a lot :-)
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What am i supose know as a marketer ?
please I want to know why the buying behaviour of people are not in uniform
Due to not stability in there income or change in there taste , trend etc
no market is a market unless it is revealed the market. we consider the market our market after checking ourselves “in and out” against the marketing. discus the validity of the statement