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Behaviour for
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Nature of consumer behaviour to prepare their marketing
strategy
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Nature of ConsumerBehaviour
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EXPERIENCE QUALITIES : attributes that a consumer can
determine only after the purchase
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• Search attributes: Search attributes are features like style, colour, texture, taste, sound etc.
Which customers can sample before purchase. For instance, customers can visit a hotel room,
or check out the restaurant menu before deciding to purchase the service.
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at a restaurant, buy he/she has to taste the food and beverages before making a purchase.
Some restaurants are able to provide customers a free dish which they can sample or
experience before taking the decision to purchase the services of the restaurant.
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Customer Service Defined
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• Logistics plays a vital support role.
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• Challenge for service marketers is to understand how customers
interact with service operations
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Stages in Consumer Decision Making and
Evaluation of Services
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Categories in Consumer Decision Making and
Evaluation of Services
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1. Need Recognition
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• Need can be recognized on the basis of routine problem,
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2. Information Search
• Personal influence
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becomes pivotal as product complexity
increases
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3. Evaluation of Alternatives
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• Evaluative criteria are certain characteristics that are
important to you, say for example such as the price of
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•Service “actors” need to perform certain routines
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5. Post Purchase use and Evaluation of Product
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• SATISFIED:- If the customer is satisfied then he/she will
repeat the purchase and will spread positive word of
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