This document discusses reference groups and word-of-mouth communication in consumer behavior. It defines reference groups as sources of comparison, influence, and norms that shape people's opinions and behaviors. The main types of reference groups mentioned are family, social class, culture, and subculture. Word-of-mouth is communication where satisfied customers tell others about businesses, products, or services. Normative and comparative influences of reference groups are described. Factors that affect reference group influence and word-of-mouth are also summarized briefly.
A complete information is given starting from the meaning of personality to its theories to its relation to marketing.
How consumers' personality affect in their buying habit and everything related is explained.
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What is Organizational Buying?
Top Business Marketing Challenges
Characteristics of Business Markets
Buying Situation
Participants in Business Buying ProcessThe Buying Center
Supplier SearchForms of Electronic Marketplaces
Methods for Researching Customer Value
Establishing Corporate Trust and Credibility
Factors Affecting Buyer-Supplier Relationships
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A complete information is given starting from the meaning of personality to its theories to its relation to marketing.
How consumers' personality affect in their buying habit and everything related is explained.
Analyzing Business Markets
What is Organizational Buying?
Top Business Marketing Challenges
Characteristics of Business Markets
Buying Situation
Participants in Business Buying ProcessThe Buying Center
Supplier SearchForms of Electronic Marketplaces
Methods for Researching Customer Value
Establishing Corporate Trust and Credibility
Factors Affecting Buyer-Supplier Relationships
What is Opportunism?
Communication and Consumer Behavior
Basic Communication Model
The Message Initiator (source)
The Credibility and Dynamics of Informal Source and WOM
Sleeper Effect / source amnesia
The Target Audience (receivers)
Targeting Consumers Through New Media
Designing Persuasive Communications
Emotional Advertising Appeals
Fear
Humor
Abrasive advertising
Audience participation
Celebrities
message
framing
comparative advertising
Consumer Attitude Formation and change
Attitude
What Are Attitudes?
Structural Models of Attitudes
Tricomponent Attitude Model
Multiattribute Attitude Models
A Simplified Version of the Theory of Reasoned Action
Theory of Trying to Consume
Attitude-Toward-the-Ad Model
Changing the Basic Motivational Function
Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM)
This topics is related with consumer behavior. I hope this will be helpful for any business student who are looking for family and its social standing effect in consumer behavior course.
Communication and Consumer Behavior
Basic Communication Model
The Message Initiator (source)
The Credibility and Dynamics of Informal Source and WOM
Sleeper Effect / source amnesia
The Target Audience (receivers)
Targeting Consumers Through New Media
Designing Persuasive Communications
Emotional Advertising Appeals
Fear
Humor
Abrasive advertising
Audience participation
Celebrities
message
framing
comparative advertising
Consumer Attitude Formation and change
Attitude
What Are Attitudes?
Structural Models of Attitudes
Tricomponent Attitude Model
Multiattribute Attitude Models
A Simplified Version of the Theory of Reasoned Action
Theory of Trying to Consume
Attitude-Toward-the-Ad Model
Changing the Basic Motivational Function
Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM)
This topics is related with consumer behavior. I hope this will be helpful for any business student who are looking for family and its social standing effect in consumer behavior course.
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2. REFERENCE GROUPS
Groups that serve as sources of comparison, influence and
norms for peoples’ opinions, values and behaviors.
Types of Reference Group:
• Family (the most important) à provides children with the skills,
knowledge, attitudes and experiences neccessary to function as
consumers (the process called consumer socialization)
• Social class
• Culture
• Subculture
4. NORMATIVE INFLUENCE COMPARATIVE INFLUENCE
MEMBERSHIP GROUP High level of conformity to the
standards of immediate
membership groups, such as
family and peers.
Conformity to the
standards of groups that
the influenced aspires to
join, and probably will.
SYMBOLIC GROUP No significant influence. High degree of influence
Reference groups have high degree of source credibility.
Group Membership and Type of Influence
6. FACTORS AFFECTING
REFERENCE GROUP INFLUENCE
• Conformity
• Groups’ Power and
Expertise
• Relevant Information and
Experience
Personality characteristics:
affect the degree of a reference
group’s influence on its
members, e.g. People who are
compliant have a tendency to
be more receptive to group
influences
10. • Salesperson Credibility (sales insurance)
• Vendor Credibility (AMAZON review on products
they sell)
• Medium Credibilty
• Effects on Time on Source Credibility à message
featuring high-credibility spokesperson must be
repeated regularly if they are to mantain high
level of persuasiveness.
11. Word of Mouth
Is when you share your experience to a certain
product or service to to others.
Opinion Leader
In which a person can influence others, who might
be opinion seeker or receipents .
Characteristic:
• Highly knowledgeable in a certain area
• A person who is confident, out-going and sociable
• They have a specialized knowledge tht enable them to
give an effective recomendations to thers.
• Opinion leaders and its receiver belong to the same
socio economic
12. How to measure opinion leaders?
Self-designating method employs a self administered questionare that require
respondents to evaluate the extent to which they have provided others with
information about specific brand or influence some decision.
Sociometric Method measure person-to-person communications about a product or
brand among members of community.
Respondents are asked to identify:
• Provide advice / information about the product /brand understudy
• Provide advice / information about the same product /brand
Key Informant Method a person who is keenly knowledgeable about the nature of
social communications among members of specific groups.
e.g: researchers
Klout Scores measure people influence online based on their abilities to generate
engagement and feedback of what they post.
e.g: blogger, etc
13. 1. Social Network (online) a virtual communities where people share
information about themselves with others.
2. Brand Communities is a specialized , non geographically bound
community formed on the basis of attachment to a product or brand.
3. Weblogs another medium for a discussion or informational site
published on the internet and consisting of dicrete entries or post.
Strategic Application of Word-of-Mouth
14. How to Stimulate Word-of-Mouth?
• Giving free samples then ask for opinion (simple example)
• Emphasizing on viral marketing and the use of buzz
agents.
15. Viral Marketing
à Marketing technique that uses pre-
exiasting social networks and other
technologies to produce increases in
brand awareness or other marketing
objectives.
à How? Through enncouraging
individuals to pass along email
messages or other content online.
16. Buzz Agents
à Consumers who promote products and generally
receive free product samples but not monetary
payments.
à Companies usually select those targeted consumers
that likely to be effective word-of-mouth communicators
à E.g Samsung Nation : an online loyalty program,
offer rewards to consumers who talk up Samsung. They
will play games on the website, win virtual points and
get others to join. Those who are most active in posting
online comments earn “Twitterati” badges.
17. • Negative rumour may struck marketplace and undermine products.
Resulting in customer avoidance towards the product
• For Example : non-hygienic Warung Nasi Goreng
Managing Negative Rumour
19. Innovation
The earliest consumer to buy new products and they are
prepared for any risk.
Early Adopter
Consumer who buy new products within a relatively short
period following introduction.
Early Majority
Consumer who buy innovation after early adopter have done
so.
Late Majority
Risk averse and slow to adopt innovation.
Laggards
Very last consumer to adopt innovations.
Non-Adapter
Prospective adopter: Potentially become costumer.
Persistent adopter: Unlikely become costumer.