Turning Towards Shopper Research: How Analysing Shopping Behaviours Can Turn Them into Buyers
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Transcript of Turning Towards Shopper Research: How Analysing Shopping Behaviours Can Turn Them into Buyers
What have we learnt from 50+ years of shopper panel [email protected]
www.marketingscience.info
Thanks to our corporate sponsors from many countries
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Reckitt Benckiser
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Sainsbury’s
SC Johnson
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TNS
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Vodaphone
Wrigleys ..... and more.
Things marketers want to know :
‣ How do brands grow?
‣ Through retaining customers or winning new customers?
‣ What will happen when I change price?
‣ What is a ‘good’ brand image for my brand?
‣ Will loyalty initiatives build my market share?
‣ When should I advertise?
‣ If my sales don’t rise, does this mean my brand advertising has failed? If not, how can I tell it is doing anything?
Our data sources:
In-house surveys, experiments, in-store observations, executive interviews, marketing mix modelling, choice modelling.
‣ We do $1 million per year on original data collection.
Consumer repeat purchase panels.‣ Kantar, Nielsen, IRI, GfK, RI.
Media sources.‣ BARB (UK), AC Nielsen (US, AUS, CHINA), OzTAM (AUS), Roy Morgan (AUS).
Buying, Attitudes, Intentions, Psychographics, Perceptions.‣ Roy Morgan, TCI, Brand Asset Valuator, IPSOS.
The Scientific Revolution
How Science Works
Repeated empirical observations, across a wide range of conditions ...
Scientific “laws” - prediction & explanation
Theory: weaves laws together into a story ... a view of the world
History has taught us that theories without laws nearly always turn out to be wrong ... often costly, sometimes fatal
Ancient GreeceA pinnacle of civilisation
Hippocrates: the father of Western medicine
4 humors: blood, phlegm, black & yellow bile
4 elements: earth, air, fire, water
If a patient is ill, the humors are out of balance and must be restored…by bleeding, inducing vomiting &/or
diarrhoea. • an application of dried beetles to his throat
• gargling vinegar
• applied poultices of wheat bran to his legs
• an emetic to ensure vomiting
• two rectal administrations of calomel & tartar (laxatives?)
... and Doctors bled Washington 5 times in 10 hours extracting 3.75 litres (out of a possible 7)
The fate of an American President
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_C._Dick and "Doctors Craik and Dick's Account of Washington's Last Illness and Death". The Papers of George Washington. University of Virginia.
A revelation:Many of the theories in your head …
which drive your intuition … are wrong
Theories need to be built on the
bedrock of empirical laws
Laws of marketinggive meaning to metrics.
And now, some laws...
‣ Developed from analysing panel data from the 1950’s onward
‣ Law-like patterns based on millions of observed brand purchases - that is, real behaviour.
‣ Myth-busting ... that thoroughly undermines “anything goes” marketing planning.
In the real world ...
‣ Brands vary tremendously in market share.
‣With large variations in penetration (size of customer base).
‣ But vary little in their loyalty metrics (behavioural and attitudinal).
Big brands have more customers ... but it need not have been this way
In theory... but not in practice.
Hypothetical brands
(of equal size)
Annual market penetration (%)
Theoretical purchases per
buyer per annum
Resulting market share
Dell-icious 32 3 14%
AppleCore 16 6 14%
Petrol Brand share % buying how often SCR % 100% loyal
ANY 100 88 13.5 100 100
Mobil 25 51 5.9 40 13
Shell 25 46 6.3 42 11
BP 19 43 5.3 35 8
Caltex 14 35 4.6 30 8
Ampol 11 30 4.1 27 6
Southern Cross 4 11 4.0 27 5
Others 3 12 3.2 22 7
Average 14 33 4.8 32 8
Brands:
Market ShareCereal Anti-
DepressantsCars TV
(USA, 2002)
Purchase Frequency Purchase Frequency Repeat Rate Repeat Rate
A (13%) 5.0 4 61 38
B (8%) 4.5 4 55 36
C (4%) 3.8 4 55 28
D (4%) 3.6 2 51 28
E (2%) 3.4 2 52 23
F (1%) 3.1 3 44 21
H (1%) 3.0 2 36 20
Average 3.6 3 51 27
Loyalty hardly varies Double Jeopardy law
‣ More popular brands are known by more people.‣ And those people are slightly more likely to say they like the
brand.
Smaller brands have smaller customer bases and those customers buy the brand slightly less often.
Brands Market shareAnnual
penetration (%)
Purchase Frequency (Ave.)
11 13 2.3
9 11 2.3
5 8 1.8
5 8 1.9
5 9 1.6
5 8 1.7
2 3 1.7
Double Jeopardy law in actionShampoo category (UK, 2005)
But Vosene buyers
aren’t 100% loyal, and
even if they were, they
buy shampoo only 6
times a year.
Vosene could reach the
share of Head &
Shoulders or Pantene if it
were bought 8 times a
year by it’s buyers.
what marketers don’t know
• To grow you must substantially increase the size of your customer base.
• Targets to substantially or only lift purchase frequency are a fantasy.
• If your customer base is already very large, growth requires everybody to buy slightly more often.
So grow your base. But how?
Retain or acquire?
Textbooks say:
“retention is cheaper than acquisition”
“reducing defection delivers more profits”
“Companies can boost profits by almost 100
percent by retaining just 5 percent more of their
... which has been cited 3000+
Retain or acquire?
Textbooks say:
“retention is cheaper than acquisition”
“reducing defection delivers more profits”
“Companies can boost profits by almost 100 percent by retaining
just 5 percent more of their customers” - Harvard Business
Review (1990)
... which has been cited 3000+ times!!
MYTH
How did they work this out?
Suppose a company loses 10% of its customers each year. This means the average customer stays 10 years. And over that time profitability equals, say, $10,000.
If defection were lowered to 5%.Then average life becomes 20 years. And the current value of profits (over 20 years) rises to $15,000.
Decreasing defection from 10% to 5%
is halving defection!!(Reduction of 50%)
Some minor issues ...
• They are talking about customer profitability, not company profitability (which depends on lots of other things).
• And they assume halving defections is possible ....MARKE
TING
Defection rates followDouble Jeopardy too (UK, 1986-1989)
Penetration
(%)
Defection
(%)
Ford 27 31
Rover 16 46
GM 14 42
Nissan 6 45
VW/Audi 5 46
Peugeot 5 57
Renault 4 52
Fiat 3 50
Citroen 2 48
Toyota 2 50
Honda 1 53
Brand Defection (%)
A 3.4
B 7.0
C 5.3
D 4.3
G 4.3
H 5.0
I 4.3
Who wouldn’t worry if they were Brand B ?
Brand Market share
Defection (%)
A 32 3.4
I 13 4.3
C 11 5.3
D 10 4.3
G 6 4.3
H 1.4 5.0
B 0.8 7.0
Context: Double Jeopardy
Brand Market share
Defection (%)
Commonwealth Bank 32 3.4
Westpac 13 4.3
NAB 11 5.3
ANZ 10 4.3
St George 6 4.3
BankSA 1.4 5.0
Adelaide Bank 0.8 7.0
Context: Regional distribution
All brands lose customers,
even growing brands.
Smaller brands have to lose
a greater %.
So grow your customer base. But which buyers matter most?
The death of mass marketing?
Coca-Cola: Case Study
70% of people who bought cola in the year purchased Coca-cola at least once.
30% of cola buyers didn’t even buy one Coke (that year).
The average Coke buyer bought it about 12 times.
But less than 5% of Coke buyers were around this average rate.
About half of Coca-cola buyers bought Coke only once or twice.
32Source: TNS Impulse Panel (UK, 2005)
0
4
8
12
16
20
1 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
% of cola buyers buying Coke x times
Source: TNS Impulse Panel (UK, 2005) 33
If you buy yourself a Coca-cola more than 3 times a year then you are
one of Coke’s heavy buyers!
34
0
14
28
42
56
70
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . 20
% of population buying Mars ... times pa
If you buy yourself a Mars bar more than twice a year then you are one of its heavy buyers
Source: TNS Impulse Panel, UK, 2005
35
0
16
32
48
64
80
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . 20
% of population buying Galaxy ... times pa
If you buy yourself a Galaxy bar more than twice a year then you are one of Galaxy’s heavy buyers
Source: TNS Impulse Panel, UK, 2005 36
0
15
30
45
60
75
0 1 2 3 4 . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . .
Dolmio (Penetration=55%)
0
15
30
45
60
75
0 3 . . 12 . .
0
15
30
45
60
75
0 1 2 3 4 . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . .
Leggos (Penetration=55%)
Raguletto (Penetration=34%)
0
15
30
45
60
75
0 1 2 3 4 . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . .
Bertolli (Penetration=28%)
Source: Nielsen (Australia, 2007)
All brands are like this
37
0 1 2 3 4 . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . .
Fabulo
0 1 2 3 4 . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . .
Fantastico
Never like this
38
0
20
40
60
80
0 1 2 3 4 . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . .
Leggos : Penetration = 37%Bertolli : Penetration = 19%
Source: Nielsen (Australia, 2007)
Known as the Negative Binomial Distribution (NBD)Each brand has the same distribution of purchases!Lots of buyers who buy 1 or 2 times. Hardly any who buy 10+ times.The shape is remarkably similar.Andrew Ehrenberg discovered this law in the 1950s.
So reaching all types of buyers matters for growth, and for
maintenance.
So we need to develop deep relationships with our customers...MYTH
So we need to develop deep relationships with our customers...
Source: Omar Mahmoud “What’s love got to do with
it?”, Research World (May, 2008)
How well does this fit?
Man: Of course, darling I love you.
Woman: Then why did you cheat on me?
Man: I stopped by your place sweetheart, didn’t find you, and your neighbour was on promotion, so I took her instead.
Man in front of a soap shelf in a supermarket, discovering his favourite brand is out of stock.
Man: Where are you darling?
Shelf voice: I am out of stock.
Man: Nooooo, don’t do this to me.
Please come back. I need you, your
perfume, your lather...
Shelf voice: No
Man: I can’t live without you. I
won’t take any showers until you
come back.
Reality check :
‣ People are busy, cognitive misers.
‣ They think and care little about most brands.
‣ There are dozens of brands vying for their attention
(and supposedly love).
‣ This shows in their behaviour - polygamous loyalty!!
Your brand is
not here...
... your brand is here
100% loyals
‣ Are very light buyers of the category (not lovers of the brand).
‣ The more purchases someone makes, the less likely they are to be 100% loyal.
May 18, 2011“US man to eat 25,000th Big Mac”
“Mr Gorske’s habitual consumption of the burgers - as
well as his need to document his diet - can be
attributed in part to obsessive-compulsive disorder.”
i.e., He records every burger in a diary.
Meet Don Gorske ...
Source - “Supersize Me” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr-bI9qzFQk
The 80/20 law says we should target our heavier customers.
Buying
frequency% of buyers
% of volume
contribution
1+ 100 100
2+ 41 70
3+ 20 50
Source: Anschuetz (1997) Source: Sharp and Romaniuk (2007)
Category Avg Brand
Big Brands Small Brands
Hair Conditioner 44 47 42
Body Sprays & Deodorants 50 54 48
RTE Cereals 51 57 61
Analgesics 54 58 51
Still Water 55 70 69
Automatic Washing Powders 56 56 55
Fresh & Wet Soup 58 62 56
Fruit Drinks 59 63 55
Chocolate Confectionary 60 64 59
Ice Cream 61 57 54
Sauces & Ketchup 62 48 50
Fruit Carbonates 64 70 61
Carbonated Water 64 66 61
Yoghurt 66 68 67
Carbonates with Lemonade 67 72 62
Dog Food 67 68 66
Spirits 68 63 59
AVERAGE 59 61 57
Heaviest 20% of buyers accounted for...
what marketers don’t know
If your aim is to grow your brand…
then you must be aiming for more light buyers, more medium buyers, and a few more heavy buyers – volumes distributed more evenly across the total spectrum of buyers.
So reaching all types of buyers matters for growth, & for maintenance.
The laws you’ve learnt
‣ Double Jeopardy Law‣ Polygamous loyalty‣ NBD distribution of buying rates‣ 60/20
Implications
You compete practically ‘head on’
with everyone
Your buyers are loyal, but
polygamous
You mean little to most of them
Bigger brands have greater mental and physical availability.
And turning shoppers into buyers?Marketing is importantTarget the marketWide reach is vitalBranding is paramount (clear identification)Distinctive assets are importantMake it easy for shoppers to get what they want from you
what marketers don’t know
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