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Note: Figures 6.2 through 6.6 inclusive from the text show important concepts
I.
C.
D.
E.
II.
1. Selective attention
2. Selective distortion
3. Selective retention
- breaking through the selective barriers
3.
4.
B.
Personal Factors
1.
Personality & Brand Personality
- Brand Personality: The specific mix of human traits that may be attributed to a
particular brand
- Match brand personality to the consumers personality
2.
Lifestyle Analysis
1. Activities, Interests & Opinions (AIOs): note unlike demographics, there are no
preset categories to use. The following is a list of some of the more popular
ones that are used.
C. Social Factors
1.
Roles
2.
Canadas changing family structure Census 2011
Some trends include:
o Households without children are increasing
o Blended or Step-families are increasing
o Single parent households are increasing
o Increase in same sex marriages
o Increase in common-law & living together
o Multi-generation families living together
o Adult children staying at home longer or returning home, especially in large
urban centers partly due to economics
o Families are getting smaller
3.
Family Life Cycle (FLC) Stages examples of segmenting and targeting by stage
4.
Reference Groups
- Opinion Leaders For consumer goods it was hard to reach them individually
on a cost effective basis as they shared many of the same characteristics as
their followers (reference groups). The digital world and social networking have
changed all that. Often they are a products most passionate consumers, and
can serve as brand advocates. If dissatisfied, todays marketer will hear about it
louder and more often (& so will everyone else)
- Word-of-Mouth:
- Is now a strategy and no longer just a tactic to leverage. Marketers &
their agencies are no longer just in the message delivery business.
They are also in the message propagation business. Marketers can
stimulate word-of-mouth, but they do not control it. It can be
accomplished in several ways (see text).
- What is word-of-mouth? Its not about technology. It is about what
people do.
- Underlying theory from cognitive psychology as to why word-of-mouth
occurs & explains why some things go viral and others dont).
Consumers form their beliefs into schemas (mental models of how the
world works). They do this to avoid overload.
D.
Cultural Factors
1.
Social Class summary of additional class differences at end of key topics
- Societys divisions who share values, interests and behaviours
- Multi-dimensional based on a number of factors education, occupation,
values, etc.
- It is not the same as income. Social class is NOT based solely on income.
- Issues that separate the social classes: use of language & symbols, perceived
risk, media habits, occupations, education
- See charts at end of key topics for descriptions of the class and examples of
differences between classes (These charts are an FYI for your information
only & not for exams)
- Social stratification in the online social media world - example
2.
Note: Students should make notes on which cultural trends are relatively stable, and those which are
changing.