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Consumer Behavior

Topic Outline

1. Business Markets
2. Business Buyer Behavior
3. The Business Buying Process
1. Business Markets
Business-to-Business
Markets
Business markets differ
from consumer markets in
several ways
Business
Buyers
Fewer and larger
Geographically
concentrated
More decision
participants
Professional
purchasers
Derived Demand
Inelastic Demand
Fluctuating Demand

Consumer
Business
Demand Demand

SMALL CHANGES IN CONSUMER


DEMAND CREATE BIG SHIFTS IN
BUSINESS DEMAND
2. Business Buyer Behavior
Decision characteristics

More complex

High prices

Formal process

Buyers and seller


dependency
BUYING SITUATIONS

Straight Modified New-task


Rebuy Rebuy Buy

Buying Situations
Straight Rebuy
Modified Rebuy
New Task Buy
Buying Centers
Buying Centers
INFLUENCER DECIDER

BUYER
USER

GATEKEEPER
The Model of Business
Buyer Behavior
ENVIRONMENTAL
Demand INFLUENCES ON
BUSINESS BUYING
Economic outlook
Cost of money
Resources Decision
Technology Process
Culture
Politics
Competition
ORGANIZATIONAL
INFLUENCES ON
Objectives BUSINESS BUYING

Policies

Decision
Procedures Process

Structure

Systems
INTERPERSONAL
INFLUENCES ON
Authority BUSINESS BUYING

Status

Decision
Empathy Process

Persuasiveness
INDIVIDUAL
Motives
INFLUENCES ON
BUSINESS BUYING
Perceptions

Preferences
Decision
Age Process
Income

Education

Attitude toward risk


3. The buying process
The Buying Process
Problem
Recognition
Need Description

Product Specification
Supplier
Search
Proposal
Solicitation

Supplier
Selection

Order Routine
Specification
Performance
Review
Discussion Time!

What is the
difference between
B2B market and B2C
market?
References

BRASSINGTON, F. and PETTITT, S. (2012) Essentials of Marketing. 3rd


Ed. Harlow: Pearson.
KOTLER, P. and ARMSTRONG, G. (2013) Principles of Marketing.
London: Prentice Hall.

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