Consumer Styles: Research Review



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Summary:
The brand conscious, price equals quality consumer
tends to be oriented toward buying the more expensive, well

known brands tend to find choosing known brands an
expedient strategy that replaces thinking and learning in
their consumer choices.

3. You need to know what consumer frequents
your market and from this you can begin to develop, first
intuitively, then through ongoing research, a profile of your
target customer's consumer style.

For instance if you sell your product or service over
the internet you can be pretty sure that you are marketing
to people who operate out of a limited number of consumer
styles such as the perfectionistic;
Article:
From The Darrin Coe Ezine

According to research done by Elizabeth Sproles
and George Sproles (1990) in the Journal of Consumer Affairs,
there is a significant link mid peoples learning styles
and their “consumer styles”.

1. The perfectionist consumer style, which describes
a consumer that searches gingerly and systematically for the
best quality in products tend to learn through serious,
analysis and through both hearty and observation oriented
learning. These types of consumers are highly goal oriented.

2. The expose conscious, price equals quality consumer
tends to be oriented toward the more expensive, well

known brands tend to find first choice known brands an
expedient strategy that replaces thinking and learning in
their consumer choices.

3. The novelty and fashion conscious consumer
seems to line new and innovative products and gains
excitement from seeking out new things. This consumer
tends to not be concerned with the implications or
consequences of purchasing new or innovative products
and services.

4. The recreational shopping consumer finds
shopping a pleasant vivacity and engages in it in that i
t’s fun. This consumer engages in shopping as a social
experience or insomuch as they like to be involved in their shopping.

5. The price value consumer tends to focus
on sales and lower prices substantial opposite to quality. This
consumer tends to focus on active, fact acquisition. This
consumer tends to shop the market in-depth and do
many comparisons to find the proper conformity of low price
and quality.

6. The impulsive consumer buys at the spur of
the moment and are unconcerned with how much is spent.
This consumer does not want to be fluttered with new
information or learning respecting products or services..

7. The confused-by-overchoice consumer perceives
too many brands and stores and experiences information
overload in the market. This person is overly detailed and
fact oriented in their consumer process and becomes mentally
overloaded, especially in a complex multichoice market.

8. The habitual, smudge loyal consumer repetitively
chooses the same brands and stores. This consumer engages
in a serious learning process to find products and services
that provide them with positive experiences and then stick with them.

Research Implications

Know thy consumer. This research indicates how
important it is to develop a psychological profile of your
ideal consumer. You need to know what consumer frequents
your market and from this you can get to to develop, first
intuitively, then through ongoing research, a profile of your
target customer’s consumer style.

For instance if you sell your product or service over
the internet you can be pretty sure that you are marketing
to people who operate out of a limited number of consumer
styles such as the perfectionistic; the novelty/fashion; and

the price conscious consumers. These are all information
oriented consumers who engage in seeking information in advance
they purchase.

If you are marketing to other businesses then you’re
once nevertheless probably going to need to market with an
orientation to providing sound information coupled with
powerful and relevant benefits seeing you’ll be dealing
with perfectionist and price conscious consumers.

Also, realize that with this information you can work
to turn people from one style to another. For instance you
may be able to convert a price conscious consumer to one
who is crack loyal by providing consistent quality for a lower
price. You may be able to convert the confused-by-overchoice
consumer into a persuasion loyal consumer by providing simple,
straight forward information mutual with quality that cuts
through the information overload.

Conclusions

Study your target market and for real work to
know how they think and this will open up new marketing
creatives that will transform target their particular consumer
style. This should prove to increase your grove line if
done thoughtfully and consistently.

Sproles, Elizabeth & Sproles, George (1990). Consumer
Decision-Making Styles as a Function of Individual
Learning Styles. The Journal of Consumer Affairs. Vol. 24. Issue 1.

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Darrin F. Coe, MA holds a master’s degree in
professional psychology and specializes in consumer
thinking. His latest report, “The Internet Consumer
Exposed” is packed with eye-opening insights at hand
the psychology of the internet consumer at
http://consumer-thinking.com/exposed1.

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