Consumer behavior
YOUR PRESENTATIONS !
WHO are the consumers and
the buyers ?
Gender – remembers social norms?
Gender / social norms / roles
Gender / social norms / roles
Importance in marketing – segmentation and targeting
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Run like a girl
Chronological age //
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Marketing application: segmentation and targeting
WHO are the consumers and
the buyers ?
PERSONALITY: a person’s unique psychological makeup
and how it consistently influences the way a person
responds to his or her environment
Psychologists recognize however that a person’s
underlying characteristics are only ONE part of the puzzle:
Most of us tend to become more stable by the age of 30
PERSONALITY
Les Big Five
Session 4: E-commerce Marketing and Advertising
E-Commerce & E-Tailing
Concepts
Question: Can we use peoples’ personality traits (i.e., extraversion vs. introversion) to make ads on
Facebook more effective?
Researcher used an existing list that gives information about Facebook likes and
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personality traits (mypersonality.org – was shut down in 2018)
Session 4: E-commerce Marketing and Advertising
E-Commerce & E-Tailing
Concepts
2 Researcher tailored an advertising that suits better to extroverted vs. introverted persons
3 Launched that advertisement on Facebook for 7 days
(campaign reached 3,129,993 users, attracted 10,346 clicks, and resulted in 390 purchases on the beauty retailer’s website)
Investigated: Are people more likely to purchase after viewing an ad that matched their
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personality
E-Commerce & E-Tailing
A brand personality is a set of traits people attribute to products as if they were a
person
Brand story telling
Give the product a story and a rich background
History and experience
Consumers do not only listen to the story, but they also fill in the blanks
and participate in the story
Underdog brand biography
The story of how a business succeeded (in generally starting very low)
E.g.: Apple, Google, HP : started in a garage
Anthropomorphism
Attributing human characteristics to products
The beliefs that a person holds about his or her
own attributes and how she or he evaluates
the self on these qualities
Your overall self-concept may be positive but
there are certainly some parts that you
evaluate more positively than others
DIMENSIONS:
People’s perception of content may be distorted (especially
for physical appearance)
Our perceptions of stability may not be very accurate either
Refers to the positivity of a person’s Self-Concept
In marketing
WHO are the consumers and
the buyers ?
… or “way of life” = arises from the interaction between
3 levels of proximity:
Lifestyle approaches
How to identify Values
How to identify AIOs?
Indicate whether you agree (1 = totally disagree, 7 = totally
agree) with the following statements:
GRADED individual report
TAKE A TEST
Understand YOUR personality
Pick any ONE of the 5 traits – the one that describes you
the most if you want – and answer the questions on
BRIGHTSPACE