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5-3 What We Need to Know about Current and Potential Customers

5-4 Who Buys and Uses the Products  Initiator–identifies the need for product  Influencer–has informational or preference input to the decision  Decider–makes the final decision through budget authorization  Purchaser–makes the actual purchase  User

5-5 Buying Roles and Needs/Benefits Sought

5-6 Categories for Describing Consumers  Demographic  Socioeconomic  Personality  Psychographics and values

5-7 Major Segmentation Variables for Consumer Markets

5-8 List of Values  Self-respect  Security  Warm relationship with others  Sense of accomplishment  Self-fulfillment  Sense of belonging  Respect from others  Fun and enjoyment  Excitement

5-9 Lifestyle Typologies

5-10 Major Segmentation Variables for Business Markets

5-11 Key Variables Used in Direct Marketing Campaigns in Europe

5-12 What Customers Buy and How They Use It  Benefits  Purchase Pattern (Product Assortment)  Recency  Frequency  Monetary value

5-13 Multiattribute Model Questions  Which attributes do customers use to evaluate a product?  What are the perceptions of the products on these attributes?  What are the relative importances of the attributes?  What decision rule is used to combine the information?

5-14 Bank Perceptual Map

5-15 Conjoint Analysis: Notebook Computers

5-16 Importance Weight Variation by Segment

5-17 Multiattribute Decision Making: Compensatory Rule

5-18 Sources of Customer Value  Economic:  The economic benefit a customer derives from using a product  Functional:  Those aspects of a product that provide functional or utilitarian benefits to customers  Psychological:  The image of the product, including how the product “feels” and whether that feeling matches the image the customer wants to project

5-19 Measuring Brand Equity  Awareness  Associations  Attitude  Attachment  Activity

5-20 Manifestations of Customer Value  Price  Price sensitivity  Satisfaction  Complaints and compliments  Word-of-mouth  Margin/profit contribution  Dollar sales  Competitive activity  Repeat purchase rate

5-21 Assessing the Value of a Product Category  Determine the uses of the product  Estimate the importance of the uses  List competing products for the uses  Determine the relative effectiveness of the product category in each usage situation

5-22 Personal Computer Product Category Value

5-23 Dollar Metric Example: Soft Drink Preference

5-24 Valuing a Hypothetical Customer

5-25 Calculating the Expected Value of a Customer

5-26 The Impact of Growth

5-27 Desirable Criteria for Segments  Sizable  Identifiable  Reachable  Respond differently  Coherent  Stable

5-28 Cluster Analysis Illustration

5-29 Cluster Analysis: Phone Company Market Segmentation Scheme

5-30 Raw Data: Cranberry Sauce Usage

5-31 Cranberry Sauce Usage Percentages

5-32 Cranberry Usage Data by Person

5-33 Light and Heavy Buyers by Mean Purchase Rates for Different Socioeconomic Cells

5-34 Four-Segment Solution for the Instant- Coffee Market

5-35 Preference Segmentation and Price Sensitivity