effective target and creating more creative communication strategy. Keywords: Working wife‚ Perception‚ Norm‚ Schwartz Value‚ Household Purchase Decision‚ Family Decision Making Process 1. Introduction Family is an important unit of analysis in consumer decision-making field (Xia et al.‚ 2006)‚ but the vast interest in family as unit of analysis in research has not happened only until recently (So and Yao‚ 2006). Family is a main reference group when individual family member is
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customer’s life-cycle might look something like this: Younger consumer - small gifts for girlfriend Slightly older consumer - engagement ring‚ holiday gifts Slightly older yet - Bridal ring‚ holiday gifts Maturing consumer - watches‚ anniversary gifts‚ holiday gifts‚ Consumer with children - birthday presents‚ holiday gifts‚ Sweet 16 gifts‚ bar mitsvah gifts and First Communion gifts So‚ you can see how reaching a consumer earlier in life offers the potential to make more sales to that
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Chapter 1 – consumer behavior 1. Decision making at margin marginal cost: the additional cost of consuming or producing one more unit of a good marginal benefit: the additional benefit of consuming or producing one more unit of good Utility: satisfaction derived from consuming units of good consumed in a given period of time Marginal utility: additional satisfaction gained from consuming an extra unit of good within a period of time 2. The law of diminishing utility marginal utility
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CHAPTER 3 – LEARNING AND MEMORY • Marketers understand that long-standing‚ learned connections between products and memories are a potent way to build and keep brand loyalty. • Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior caused by experience (not always directly‚ but by observation of events that affect others). - An ongoing process - Ranges from simple association between a stimulus (product logo - Coke) to a response (“refreshing soft drink”) – to a complex series of cognitive
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Marketers expend considerable effort to have consumers learn about their products. Therefore it is vital that we understand how consumers‚ and that includes us‚ learn. Learning: Learning refers to any change in the content or organisation of long-term memory. Consumer behaviour is largely learned behaviour. Learning is defined as any change in the content or organisation of long-term memory. Consumers must learn almost everything related to being a consumer: product existence‚ performance‚ availability
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activity as well as to overt actions. Secondly‚ learning results in relatively permanent changes in behavior. This excludes changes brought about by fatigue or other short-lived influences such as drug-induced behavior. Thirdly‚ we must exclude the effects of physical damage to the body or brain and of natural human growth. Types of learned behavior a) Physical Behaviour People learn many physical behaviors in everyday life. Firstly‚ all healthy humans learn to walk‚ talk and socialize. Secondly‚ they
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A STUDY ON CONSUMER BUYING BEHAVIOUR IN TIKONA DIGITAL NETWORKS (P) LTD Submitted by SATHYANANTHAM.U Reg No - 40909631047 of KARPAGA VINAYAGA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY MADHURANTHAGAM (T.k) - 603308 A PROJECT REPORT Submitted to the FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES In partial fulfillment for the award of the degree Of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN MARKETING MANAGEMENT ANNA UNIVERSITY:: CHENNAI 600 025 JUNE 2011 ANNA UNIVERSITY: CHENNAI
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The United Arab Emirates is seeing a more cosmopolitan‚ consumer-oriented lifestyle evolve‚ buoyed by oil revenues‚ massive infrastructure development‚ and a growing multinational workforce. The U.A.E. is a federation of seven states‚ or emirates‚ bordering on the Arabian Gulf and surrounded by Qatar‚ Saudi Arabia and Oman. Together‚ Abu Dhabi‚ Dubai‚ Sharjah‚ Umm al-Qaiwain‚ Fujairah‚ Ra’s al-Khaimah and Ajman occupy 83‚000 square kilometers with 700 kilometers of coastline
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Consumer Behavior A Vera Bradley handbag can be one of the many fashion statements made by almost any female ranging from the age of 10 to 90. “Vera Bradley is a leader in fashionable‚ colorful‚ cotton quilted handbags‚ accessories‚ luggage‚ and paper and gift items for women of every age.” As one can see this product is mostly purchased by women. However‚ each individual has their own personal characteristics like gender‚ age‚ family life cycle‚ personality‚ self-concept‚ and lifestyle that influence
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CHAPTER 1 QUESTION 1: Explain the concept of the 80/20 rule and why it is important to marketers. The 80/20 rule of marketing is derived from the broader Pareto Principle concept introduced by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto in 1906. Pareto noted that the majority of wealth in a free market economy is concentrated within a relatively small group of people -- roughly 20 percent of the population. Importance of rule 80/20 to marketers: Marketing investment: relates to how money is spent on advertising
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