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Consumer behaviour and branding : concepts, readings and cases : the Indian context /

India is one of the emerging markets that pose a unique set of challenges to marketers. The importance of the context and the usefulness of concepts in the Indian context is the core proposition of Consumer Behaviour and Branding: Concepts, Readings and Cases-The Indian Context. The diversity of a m...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ramesh Kumar, S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chennai : Pearson Power : Dorling Kindersley (India), ©2009.
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Why Concepts Are Important in the Indian Context
  • Importance of Cultural Dimensions
  • Importance of Timing
  • Challenges in Emerging Markets
  • Challenges for Marketers
  • Options Available to Branded Offerings
  • The Indian experience
  • Part I: Concepts in Consumer Behaviour
  • Chapter 1: Linkages Between Concepts and the Indian Marketing Reality
  • The Experiential Approach to Branding
  • What is experiential marketing ?
  • Applying the concept of experiential marketing
  • Consumers and Contextual Creativity
  • Timing of contextual creativity
  • Importance of situation as a segmentation base
  • Creativity with other elements of the marketing mix
  • Marketing Myopia as a Classic Strategy
  • The need for brands to be customer-centric
  • The focus of experience-based branding efforts
  • Consumer Perception and Marketing Strategies
  • The synergistic approach to branding
  • Branding
  • Behavioural aspects associated with consumers and marketing mix elements
  • Branding Commodities-Conceptual Linkages
  • Commodity versus Brand
  • Target-segment-related considerations
  • Involvement levels and commodity branding
  • Price Discounting and Sales Promotion-Its Implications
  • Why discount at all?
  • Brand associations and sales promotion/pricediscounting
  • Perceived Risk and Branding
  • Product category and perceived risk
  • New concept products
  • Diffusing durable categories
  • Intention to buy matters
  • The Power of Brand Associations
  • Importance of brand associations
  • New brands and brand associations
  • Importance of brand associations for pioneeringbrands
  • The Enigma of the Three C's-Culture, Cricket and Consumers
  • The beginnings
  • Consumer behaviour and sports celebrities
  • Today's context
  • Planning mega-event associations for the brand.
  • Hedonism-The Universal Marketing Appeal
  • Hedonism at work
  • Applying hedonism to products and services
  • Products that completely depend on hedonism
  • Products that have been traditionally dependent on benefits
  • Services and hedonism
  • Variety-Marketer's Dilemma or Consumer's Confusion
  • Product category and the evolution of variety
  • Importance of differentiation
  • Approaches to Consumer Buying Behaviour
  • Consumer psyche and fast-moving consumer goods
  • Touch of the digital media
  • Brands/features/retail stores
  • consumer psyche and durable categories
  • Challenges of Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty and Migration
  • Why do consumers defect? How brands can addressthe associated problems?
  • Satisfaction varies across products/services and target segments
  • Opinion Leaders as Thought Leaders
  • Why is opinion leadership topical?
  • Psyche of opinion leadership
  • Conceptualizing Glamour-Celebrity Advertising as a Branding Strategy
  • Type of product category
  • Brand differentiation
  • Exploring the Consumer Lifecycle
  • Adaptability and brands
  • Seamless transition and brands
  • Brand symbolism still holds good
  • Chapter 2: The Importance of Consumer Behaviour Towards Brand Success
  • Behavioural Dimensions of Marketing
  • Psychological Factors
  • Consumer Decision Making
  • Group Concepts
  • Importance of MAO
  • Consumer Behaviour and Brand Success
  • Marketing Mix and Consumer Behaviour-Critical Linkages
  • Importance of Marketing Mix
  • Need to Prioritise Marketing Mix Elements
  • Marketing Mix Priorities and Synchronisation
  • Unorganized Markets and Marketing Mix Elements (FMCG )
  • Touch of Reality
  • The Digital Connection with Consumer Behaviour
  • Coffee and Consumers
  • Diversity and Importance of Consumer Needs in an Emerging Market
  • Consumer Behaviour and Marketing Strategy
  • Captive Consumers.
  • It Is Consumer Behaviour all the Way
  • Chapter 3: Consumer Decision Making and Branding Strategies
  • Consumer Decision Making: Important Dimensions
  • The Basic Model of CDM
  • Which Stage to Target
  • Strategy for Durables
  • Applying CDM-New and Familiar Products
  • CDM and Celebrity Usage
  • Impulsive Purchase and CDM
  • Substitutability of Products
  • Types of Consumer Decision Making
  • Habitual CDM
  • Limited CDM
  • Extended CDM
  • Brands and CDM
  • CDM and Upgrading the Consumer-A Continuous Process
  • Information Search and CDM
  • Nature of Information Search
  • Types of Information Sought
  • Strategies of Applying Consumer Decision Making
  • (a) Maintenance Strategy
  • ( b) Disrupt Strategy
  • (c) Capture Strategy
  • (d) Intercept Strategy
  • (e) Preference Strategy
  • (f ) Acceptance Strategy
  • Dimensions of Information Search
  • Importance of In-store Research (FMCG products)
  • CDM-An Overall Perspective
  • Consumers, Shopping Styles and Brands
  • Box 3.1 Cognitive Dissonance and CDM
  • Emergence of Shopping Styles
  • Shopping Style
  • Quality-oriented Style
  • Brand-conscious Style
  • Novelty-oriented Style
  • Shopping as a Fun/Pleasure-oriented Activity
  • Value for Money Style
  • "Impulsive" Style
  • Shopping Style under Information-overload
  • Loyalty Style of Shopping
  • Touch of Reality
  • Differentiating Involvement Levels
  • Degrees of Information Search
  • Chapter 4: The Concept of Perception and Its Impact on Marketing Strategies
  • Applications of Sensation
  • Box 4.1 Perception Matters
  • The Concept of Perception
  • Dynamics of Perception
  • Brand Positioning and Perception
  • Perception and Prices
  • Can Brand Images be changed?
  • Perceived risks
  • Box 4.2 Managing Category/Brand Image(Indian Context)
  • Brand Perception and Country of Origin
  • The Concept of Brand Re-positioning
  • Segmentation-Repositioning Linkages.
  • Brand Associations and Sustainable Core Proposition (SCP)
  • SCP Strategies and Brand-Related Dimensions in Repositioning
  • Value-oriented Repositioning
  • Segment-oriented Repositioning
  • Celebrity-oriented Brand Enhancement Repositioning
  • Symbolism-oriented Repositioning
  • Upmarket Technology-oriented Repositioning
  • Niche-oriented Repositioning
  • Change of Image-oriented Repositioning
  • The Perception-Intention Framework
  • SCP-Oriented Approach
  • New Imagery
  • Repackage
  • New Mix
  • Developing Brand Differentiations
  • Framework for Developing Brand Image
  • The Manufacturing Proposition
  • Feature-based Proposition
  • Benefit-based Proposition
  • Organisation-based Proposition
  • Overall Differentiation
  • Perception and Technological Products
  • Product Obsolescence
  • Branding and Value
  • The "Inward" Impact of Branding
  • Costs of Customer Service
  • Branding is Reassurance
  • Testimonial Route
  • Brand as a Point of "Contact"
  • The Process of Branding Hi-tech Products
  • Selecting the Brand Proposition
  • Communicating the Brand Proposition
  • Importance of Research
  • Box 4.3 Perceptions and Propositions
  • Image Associations
  • Box 4.4 Perception and Symbolism
  • Bajaj
  • Perception and Brandnames
  • Creating a Market for a New Offering among Substitutes: Perception and Marketing Mix Elements
  • Touch of Reality
  • India's Macho Motorbike
  • Chapter 5: Learning Principles and Their Usefulness to Branding Associations
  • The Concept of Conditioning
  • Classical Conditioning
  • Instrumental Conditioning
  • Building Relationship Programs
  • Segmenting Customers on Profitability
  • The Impact of Customised Communication-a form of reward
  • Loyalty Programs
  • Pricing and Loyalty
  • Consumer Behaviour and Information-Processing
  • Important Aspects of Information Processing Theory
  • Sensory Store
  • Short-term Memory.
  • Long-term Memory
  • Encoding and Information Retention
  • Retention and Long-term Memory
  • Retrieval of Information
  • Other Aspects of Retrieval:
  • Split-Brain Theory
  • Touch of Reality
  • Old Brands and New Communication
  • Applying Learning Theories
  • Strengths of Brand Associations
  • Chapter 6: The Role of Motivation and Personality Dimensions in Brand Associations
  • Multiplicity of Needs
  • Types of Goals
  • Extrinsic and Intrinsic Needs
  • Perceived Contradictory Motivators
  • Self-Concepts and their Implications
  • Inner-directedness and Other-directedness
  • Personality Traits and their Applications
  • Consumer Innovativeness
  • Ethnocentrism
  • Optimum Stimulation Level
  • Dogmatism
  • Importance of Cognition
  • Personality and Need for Variety
  • Interpersonal Influence
  • Self-Image and Possessions
  • Brand Personality-Lessons from Indian Brands of the Yesteryear
  • Brand Lifecycle and Brand Personality
  • Box 6.1 Research on the Impact of Personality
  • Self-expression and Emotion
  • Touch of Reality
  • Brand Personality and Self Concepts
  • Chapter 7: Attitudes and Their Impact on Branding Strategies
  • Linkages in Attitude Formation
  • Marketing Implications
  • Multi-components in attitudes
  • How are Attitudes Formed
  • Role of Beliefs in Attitude Formation
  • Types of Influence on Attitude Formation
  • Attitude towards Product Categories/Brands
  • Changing the Basic Motivational Function
  • Association with Events:
  • Dealing with Conflicting Attitudes:
  • Changing the Relative Evaluation of Attributes:
  • Changing Brand Beliefs:
  • Using a New Attribute Brand:
  • Overall Attitude towards the Brand:
  • Focusing on Competitive Brands:
  • The Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM)
  • Ideal Point Model
  • Implications of the Model:
  • Touch of Reality
  • Attitudes Matter in an Emerging Market
  • Caselet.