ANALYZING CONSUMER MARKETS
Understanding Consumer Buying
Behavior
Delza B. Castillo
Outline
What is consumer behavior?
What influences consumer buying behavior?
The buying decision process : Five-Stage
Model
What is consumer behavior?
Consumer behavior is the study of how
individuals, groups, and organizations select,
buy, use, and dispose of goods, services, ideas,
or experiences to satisfy their needs and wants.
What influences consumer buying
behavior?
A consumer’s buying behavior is influenced by:
1. Cultural factors - culture, subculture and social
class
2. Social factors - reference groups, family and
social roles and statuses
3. Personal factors - age, stage in the life cycle,
occupation, economic situation, lifestyle,
personality and self-concept
What influences consumer behavior?
1. Cultural factors
Buyer’s culture - learned values, perceptions, wants
and behavior from family and other important
institutions.
Buyer’s subculture – groups of people within a
culture with shared value systems based on common
life experiences and situations.
What influences consumer behavior?
1. Cultural factors
Buyer’s social class – society’s relatively permanent
and ordered divisions whose members share similar
values, interests and behaviors.
What influences consumer behavior?
2. Social factors
Reference groups – groups that form a comparison
or reference in forming attitudes or behavior.
Family – most important consumer-buying
organization in society.
Social roles and status – groups, family, club and
organizations to which a person belongs that can
define role and social status.
What influences consumer behavior?
3. Personal factors
Age and life-cycle stage
Occupation affects the goods and services bought
by consumers.
Economic situation includes trends in personal
income, savings and interest rate.
Lifestyle - person’s pattern of living as expressed in
activities, interests and opinions.
What influences consumer behavior?
3. Personal factors
Personality - refers to unique psychological
characteristics that lead to consistent and lasting
responses to consumer’s environment.
Self-concept - refers to people’s possessions that
contribute to and reflect their identities.
Buying decision process: Five-Stage
Model
Postpurchasebehavior
Purchase decision
Evaluation of alternatives
Information search
Problem recognition
Cultural, social, and
personal factors affect
all steps
Buying decision process: Five-Stage
Model
Problem recognition
Cultural, social, and
personal factors affect
all steps
A buying process starts when
a buyer recognizes a problem or
need triggered internal or external
stimulus.
Buying decision process: Five-Stage
Model
Information search
Problem recognition
Cultural, social, and
personal factors affect
all steps
Information can be obtained from
personal, commercial or public
sources .
Buying decision process: Five-Stage
Model
Evaluation of alternatives
Information search
Problem recognition
Cultural, social, and
personal factors affect
all steps Consumer processes competitive
brand information and make final
value judgment.
Buying decision process: Five-Stage
Model
Purchase decision
Evaluation of alternatives
Information search
Problem recognition
Cultural, social, and
personal factors affect
all steps
The consumer executes a purchase intention.
Buying decision process: Five-Stage
Model
Postpurchasebehavior
Purchase decision
Evaluation of alternatives
Information search
Problem recognition
Cultural, social, and
personal factors affect
all steps
The buyer makes
postpurchase evaluation.
IN ANALYZING CONSUMER MARKETS
Be aware of the Consumer’s
NEEDS, WANTS and DEMANDS
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