1. Chapters 4, 9 & 10 Consumer Behaviour, Second Edition Martin Evans,
Ahmad Jamal
Gordon Foxall
Cardiff Business School
ISBN:
Chapters 4, 9 & 10
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2. Consumer Responses to Marketing Actions: 3
Action, Post Purchase Dissonance, Consumer Involvement
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3. Chapters Objectives
Explain techniques that encourage consumers to act upon marketing activities.
Explain impulse buying and customer satisfaction as important concepts.
Explain customer satisfaction, its antecedents and consequences
Apply cognitive dissonance theory to help explain how consumers can respond after purchase.
Explain involvement and discuss implications of levels of involvement for consumer behaviour and for the relevance of sequential models of response to marketing activity.
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4. Sequential Model Of Marketing
Post-purchase
action
Attitude
Learning
Perception
Attention
Exposure
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5. Action Is the outcome of consumers’ decision making process
Is affected by many different factors

6. Continuum of buying decision behaviour

7. Think of a low-involvement decision and a high-involvement decision that you made recently. To what extent do you think your decision-making differed in the two situations?
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8. Characteristics of limited versus extended problem-solving

9. The act of purchase is affected by many factors, such as mood, time pressures, and the context in which a product is needed.

10. Sequential Model Of Marketing
Post-purchase
action
Attitude
Learning
Perception
Attention
Exposure 10
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11. Customer Satisfaction, Cognitive Dissonance, Product Disposal
Post Purchase
Customer Satisfaction, Cognitive Dissonance, Product Disposal

12. Customer Satisfaction
Satisfaction is “an attitude-like feeling of a customer towards a product or service after it has been used”.
Satisfaction is an important concept both for academics and managers
It is considered as the essence of success and focus of becoming a market oriented firm
Customer satisfaction may be critical to the levels of repeat purchase (loyalty). Customer delight may lead to customer loyalty.
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13. Customer Satisfaction and Disconfirmation
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14. Cognitive Dissonance
A kind of psychological tension resulting from perceived inconsistencies in cognitions
(Festinger, 1957)
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15. Increasing or Decreasing Cognitive Dissonance Using Advertising…

16. Comparative Advertising
Reproduced by permission of Bird's Eye, a division of Unilever Plc. Illustrated by Anthony Burrill.
Reproduced by permission of Bird’s Eye, a division of Unilever Plc. Illustrated by Anthony Burrill.
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17. Reassurance © Vauxhall Network Q. Reproduced by permission
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18. Reassurance You are looked after if something does go wrong
© Vauxhall Network Q. Reproduced by permission
More concerned with functionality than image
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19. Negative Advertising
© Conservative Party. Reproduced with permission.
A seminal example of negative political advertising attempting to raise dissonance over the competing political party. Perhaps unfortunately modern political campaigning seems to mostly ’knock’ the opposition parties.
Photograph: Martin Evans
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20. Post Purchase: Disposal Behaviour
Includes: throwing away, recycling, selling/swapping, giving away or keeping it for an extended period of time.
Consumers throw away due to convenience or to make room for new products.
Technological advancements have led to shortened product life cycles for some products (e.g., mobile phone, computers, printers), which along with a desire to buy the latest model puts extra pressures on consumers to dispose off their old products.
Some consumers are chronic keepers -have a large pile of products (e.g., old monitor, cables) in their attics or cellars.
Some may be kept for their nostalgic value or due to an emotional attachment (e.g., remind them of a loved one), most of the other items are kept in the hope of using them some time in the future.
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21. Consumers’ disposal options

22. Summary
Ways of encouraging consumers to ‘act’ and respond positively after purchase
Impulse buying is a pervasive and characteristic feature of most of our purchases
Customer satisfaction is a post-purchase attitude like feeling and is an important theoretical as well as practical concept
Cognitive dissonance can occur before purchase as well as after purchase and marketing can help resonance
Consumers can become involved in product categories, brands, advertisements, communication mediums and even purchase decisions. Involvement reflects a consumer’s self-relevance and can be enduring, situational and response driven 22
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