Midterm Flashcards
Consumption Communities
- groups where members share views and product recs online
- Barbie, Robloux, Eagles, Harley
Consumer Behavior
-when people/groups select/purchase/use/dispose of products, services, ideas, or experiences to satisfy needs/desires
Consumption Process
- Prepurchase
- Purchase
- Postpurchase
Decision Making
- Need recognition
- Info search
- Evaluate alternatives
- Purchase decisions
- Post purchase evaluation
80/20 Rule
20% of users account for 80% sales
Relationship Marketing
stresses LT human side of buyer/seller interactions
Database Marketing
tracks consumer buying habits closely and crafts products/messages to people based on it
Role Theory
consumer behavior resembles actions in a play
Digital Native
young people who have grown up with computers and mobile technology
Paradigm
set of beliefs that guide our understanding of world
Positivism
relies on principles of scientific method and assumes single reality exists
Interpretivism
symbolic/subjective experience; meaning is in mind of person rather that out in objective world
Market Segmentation
- Demographics
- Geographics
- Psychographics
- Behavioral
Demographics
Age, gender, family, income, race, education
Geographics
Zip code, climate, rural v urban, geotargeting
Psychographics
values, attitudes, lifestyles, beliefs, opt/pest
Behavioral
benefits sought, purchase occasion, usage frequency
If you are not happy with product…
- Voice response (direct to company)
- Private response (boycott/bad review)
- TP Response (legal action)
Corrective Advertising
company releases messages that inform consumers of old messages that were misleading
Culture Jamming
strategies that attempt to disrupt or satirize messages from corporations
CSR
Org. makes positive impact on various stakeholders in community (consumers, employees, environment)
Transformative Consumer Research
- Promotes research projects that include the goal of helping people or bringing about social change
- Anti smoking ads in poor areas
Cause Marketing
aligns company or brand with a cause to generate business and societal benefits
-Dawn, patagonia, yoplait, toms
Real time bidding
Electronic trading system that sells as space on web pages people click on at the moment they visit them
Phising
Internet scams where people receive fraud emails to supply person info
Market Access
extent to which a consumer has the ability to find and purchase g/s
Food Desers
geographic area where residents are unable to obtain adequate food and other products to maintain healthy existence
Media Literacy
consumer’s ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information
Conscientious Consumerism
- buying ethically produced products
- patagonia vs. kfc
Triple Bottom Line Orientation
Goal is to maximize financial, environmental, and social return
Green Marketing
- promotion of environmentally friendly products
- patagonia
Greenwashing
- when companies make false claims about how environmentally friendly their products are
- VW/auto, seaworld
LOHAS
Lifesyles of health and sustainability
-group that worries about environment, wants products to be sustainably products, spends money to develop
Cyberterrorism
Disruptive attacks on computer systems by malicious agents
Pink Marketing
- Alliance between breast cancer awareness and brands
- NFL, Evelyn Louder
Pink Washing
- Skepticism of legitimacy of relationship
- KFC
Guerilla Marketing
max exposure for product
Trade Dress
color combinations that become strongly associated with corporation (ex: tiffany blue)
Audio Watermark
- Producers weave distinctive sound into music that sticks to people’s minds
- MCD, Lexus Red Ribbon
Endowment Effect
encouraging shoppers to touch a product encourages them to imagine they own it
Haptic
touch related sensations (iphone droplet/swoosh)
Kansei Engineering
translates customers feelings into design elements (bitmoji)
The Stages of Perception
- Exposure – sensation comes within range of sensory receptors
- Attention – assignment of processing activity to selected stimuli
- Interpretation – meanings are assigned to stimuli
Sensory Threshold
when stimulus is strong enough to make conscious impact on awareness