2. What is the Consumer Decision Making Process?
This process describes the steps
that consumers go through
before, during, and after they
have made a purchase
3. What are the Steps?
Need
Recognition
Information
Search
Alternative
Evaluation
Purchase and
Consumption
Post-Purchase
4. Need Recognition
Consumer Decision Process
begins when a consumer has an
unsatisfied need
The consumer would like to
transition from needy state to
desired state
This Consumer
may Desire New
Shoes
5. Information Search
After a need is recognized, a
consumer will search for
information to satisfy the
recognized need
Search may be internal or
external
•Buyer uses own memory/
knowledge about a
product/service
Internal
•Buyer seeks information
elsewhere
•Examples include
consumer reports, the
internet, and
friends/family
External
6. Alternative Evaluation
After information has been
gathered, consumers will
compare different choices
Different choices may come from
sets
Sets include universal set,
retrieval set, and evoked set
7. Purchase and Consumption
After evaluating alternatives,
customers are ready to spend
their money
Customers may purchase their
product/service from their
original store/brand of choice
Alternatively, customers may
look elsewhere such as online or
another retailer
Retailers use the
conversion rate to
measure how good
they have done at
converting decisions
into purchases
8. Post- Purchase
The final step in the Consumer
Decision Making Process
Customers may be satisfied or
even become loyal repeat
customers
Customers may experience post
purchase cognitive dissonance
leading them to buyer’s remorse
9. Factors Affecting Consumer Decision Process
Consumer
Decision
Process
Social
Factors
Situational
Factors
Marketing
Mix
Psycholo
gical
Factors
10. Social Factors Situational Factors
Family
Reference Groups
Culture
Purchase Situation
Sensory Situation
Temporal State