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Chapter 6

CUSTOMER
ANALYSIS
Know about current & potential
customer
• Who buys & uses the product
• What customer buy & use it
• Where customer buy
• When customer buy
• How customer choose
• Why they prefer a product
• How they respond to marketing
program
• Will they buy it? (again)
Who buys & uses the product

• Buyers versus users


1.Initiator
2. Influencer
3. Decider
4. Purchaser
5. User
• Descriptive variables: Consumer
products

1. Demographic
2. Socioeconomic
3. Personalities
4. Psychographics & values
• Descriptive variables: Industrial
products

1. Demographic
2. Operating variables
3. Purchasing approaches
4. Situational factors
5. Personal characteristics
What customer buy & use it

• Benefits
• Purchase pattern (Two - product
Assortment)
1. Recency
2. Frequency
3. Monetary
• Product Assortment
• Use
Where customer buy

When customer buy


How customer choose

• Consideration
• The Multi attribute model
1. Attributes
2.Perception
3. Importance weight
4. Combining the information
• Customer as a problem solvers
Why they prefer a product
• Source of customer value
1. Economic
2. Functional
3. psychological
- awareness
- association
- attitude
- attachment
- activity
• Manifestations of customer value

1. Price
2. Price Sensitivity
3. Satisfaction
4. Complaints & Compliments
5. Word of mouth
6. Margin/profit contribution
7. Dollar sales
8. Competitive activity
9. Repeat purchase rate
• Assessing the value of the product
category

1. Determine the use of the product


2. Estimate the important of the uses
3. List competing products for the uses
4. Determine the relative effectiveness of
the product category in each usage
situation.
• Assessing the value of the
Brand/Product/Service

1.Rating
2.Constant sum ratings across brands
3.Graded paired comparisons
4.Conjoint analysis

• Emotions, Metaphors, and Conceptual


understanding
How they respond to marketing
program

• Expert judgment
• Customer survey – based methods
• Experiments
• Analysis of past data
Will they buy it? (again)

• Satisfaction
• Intention
SEGMENTATION

• Desirable criteria for segment

1. Sizable
2. Identifiable
3. Reachable
4. Respond differently
5. Coherent
6. Stable
• Method for market segmentation

1. Cluster analysis
2. Tabular analysis
3. Regression analysis
4. Latent class analysis
5. Judgment – based segmentation

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