Advanced Advertising

1. ADVANCED
ADVERTISING
Consumer Behavior

2. Consumer Behavior
 The study of how people buy, what they buy,
why they buy and when they buy.
 It attempts to understand the buyer decision
making process, both individually and in
groups.

3. Consumer Audience
 The people who buy or use products to satisfy
needs or wants.
 Types of consumers
 Those who buy the product
 Those who use the product
 Target Audience
 Those
individuals who will receive the advertising
message

4. Factors affecting consumer
behavior
 Cultural and social  Psychological
influences influences
 Culture  Perception
 Social Class  Learning
 Reference groups  Motives
 Family  Attitudes
 Demograhics  Lifestyles
 Geography

5. Cultural and social influences
 Culture
 Based on norms and values
 Norms – boundaries a culture establishes for behavior
 Values - broad preferences concerning appropriate
courses of action or outcomes
 Directly influences buying behavior

6. Cultural and social influences
 Social Class
 Determined by factors like income , wealth,
education, occupation, family prestige, value of
home, and neighborhood
 Itis assumed that people in one class buy
different products than any other class for
different reasons.
 E.g Walls icecream vs Movenpick icecream

7. Cultural and social influences
 Reference Groups
 Collection of people used as a guide for behavior
in specific situations.
 Reference groups have three functions
 They provide information
 They serve as comparison
 They offer guidance

8. Cultural and social influences
 Family
 Family consists of two or more people who are
related by blood, marriage or adoption and live in
the same household.
 Familyhelps develop a lifestyle (how you spend
time and money and the kinds of activities you
value)

9. Cultural and social influences
 Demographics
 Arestatistical, personal, social and economic
characteristics of a population including
 Age
 Gender
 Education
 Income
 Occupation
 Race/ ethnicity

10. Cultural and social influences
 Geographic location
 Difference in buying behavior exists between
different regions
 Buying behavior also differs urban areas and rural
areas.

11. Psychological Influences
 Perception
 Theprocess by which we receive information
through our five senses and assign meaning to it.
3 sets of influences shape perception
 The physical characteristics of the stimuli
 The relationship of the stimuli to the surroundings
 The person’s state of mind.
 Some stimuli are selected over others
 Selective perception
 Screening out some information that does not interest us
and retaining that information that interests us.

12. Psychological Influences
 Selective exposure
 Seeking information that is in line with our beliefs, values,
experiences, biases, attitudes.
 Selective distortion
 Changing the meaning of information that is conflicting
with our beliefs
 Selective retention
 The process we go through to retain information

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 Write down the ads which you remember.
 Write the reason for remembering every ad.
 Discuss in class.

36. Psychological Influences
 Learning
 Perceptions lead to learning
 We learn something that we perceive and attach
meaning to it.
 Cognitive learning
 Perception -> Problem solving -> Insight
 Behavioral conditioning
 Classic conditioning
 Pairing one stimulus with another that already is
associated with a response
 e.g. associating sound of bell with end of school day
 Operant conditioning
 Voluntary occurrences of behavior that are then
rewarded , ignored or punished.

39. When you use a mobile while you drive, your head is somewhere else

40. Psychological Influences
 Motivation and Needs
 Motive
 An internal force that forces you to behave in a particular
way.
 Advertisers study buying motives.
 Need
 Basic forces that motivate us to do something
 Primary needs: requirements to maintain life
 Secondary: Acquired needs in response to our culture and
environment.
 Needs change over time.

41. When did you last buy and
why?

42. Psychological Influences
 Attitudes
A learned feeling you hold towards an object, a
person or an idea that leads to a particular
behavior.
 Attitudes are resistant to change.
 Attitudes are learned, hence can be changed or
replaced.
 Attitudes may be positive or negative, weak or
strong.

44. Psychological Influence
 Lifestyle
 The way a person spends his time and money
and the activities he likes to perform.

45. Buyer decision process
 Steps of decision making
 Need Recognition
 Information Search
 Evaluation of alternatives
 Purchase Decision
 Post Purchase Evaluation