2. Consumer Buying Behaviour: Key Questions 1 of 8
Consumers
Who is Important?
How do they buy? What are their
choice criteria?
When do they
buy?
Where do they
buy?
3. Consumer Buying Behaviour: Key Questions 2 of 8
Most purchases individual – confectionary, beer, etc
Many decisions by group/family/couple - (buying centre/decision making unit). There are
5 roles…
Who is Important?
Initiator
– Starts process, may gather information to aid decision
Influencer
– Persuade others in group re the outcome of decision, typically
gathers information and tries to impose their choice
Decider
– He/she who pays – ultimate power of veto
Buyer – Person who conducts transaction
User – Consumer/user of the product
4. Consumer Buying Behaviour: Key Questions 3 of 8
How they Buy?
Need Recognition/
Problem Awareness
Consumer Decision Making Process
Information
Search
Evaluation of Alternatives
Purchase
Post purchase evaluation
•Need Recognition
• Functional (accurate calculations, get from A to B)
• Routine Depletion (its broken)
• Emotional/Psychological (need cool clothes,
expensive perfume, a Ferrari rather than a ‘car’)
Current/
Desired
Situation
Delta
Relative Importance
HiLo
Lo
Hi
No Motivation to
Change
?
Motivation to
Change
Motivation to
Change
?
Motivation to
Change
Problem Awareness
5. Consumer Buying Behaviour: Key Questions 4 of 8
How they Buy?
Need Recognition/
Problem Awareness
– Internal Search
• Review of relevant information from memory
– External Search
• Personal – friends/family
• Commercial – adverts, sales people
• Third Party – Which? What Car?
• Trial
Consumer Decision Making Process
Information
Search
Evaluation of Alternatives
Purchase
Post purchase evaluation
Build Awareness Set
6. Consumer Buying Behaviour: Key Questions 5 of 8
How they Buy?
Need Recognition/
Problem Awareness
– Create evoked set
• Those products/brands to be considered
Consumer Decision Making Process
Information
Search
Evaluation of
Alternatives
Purchase
Post purchase
evaluation
Low Involvement High Involvement
Awareness
Trial
Repeat Purchase
Personal Beliefs
Attitudes
Purchase
Intentions
Purchase
Normative
Beliefs
Subjective
Norms
7. Consumer Buying Behaviour: Key Questions 6 of 8
How they Buy?
Need Recognition/
Problem Awareness
– Cognitive Dissonance
• Post purchase concerns, likely to occur in four
ways,
– Expense – Did I spend too much?
– Difficult – So many alternatives, all good, all slightly
different benefits, did I make the right choice?
– Irrevocable – I have done it now!
– Tendency to experience anxiety – Purchaser is a
nervous sort
Consumer Decision Making Process
Information
Search
Evaluation of Alternatives
Purchase
Post purchase evaluation
Marketers should seek to reduce buyer remorse
by reinforcing wisdom of purchase
8. Consumer Buying Behaviour: Key Questions 7 of 8
Various attributes used to evaluateWhat are the choice criteria?
Technical
– Reliability
– Durability
– Performance
– Comfort
– Taste
– Convenience
Economic
– Price
– Value for money
– Life time costs
– Residual value
– Running costs
Social
– Status
– Social Belonging
– Fashion
Personal
– Self-Image
– Ethics
– Emotions
9. Consumer Buying Behaviour: Key Questions 8 of 8
When do they buy?
– Day of the week? – advertise toys on Saturday morning
(pester power) for the afternoon
– Stay open on Sunday – have the time to review cars,
etc
– Last minute?
Where do they buy?
– Not buying it in Tesco’s, I’ll buy it on the Kings Road?
• It will look and sound cooler
– I’ll buy it online?
• It will sound cooler
– I’ll buy it at the airport?