This conclusion is also supported by the fact that it is far more expensive to gain new customers than to make a satisfied customer come back. This is why it is worth investing in the development of the relationships with the already existing valuable clients from this point-of-view, it would be a right time to bring into discussion the concept of empowerment. Well chosen representatives of the organization can be given the power to establish and negotiate relationships of commitment with the customers. The organization must nevertheless keep in mind the fact that the relationship must be mutually advantageous. Consequently, a constant development of the products and services must be taken into consideration as well as a continuously adapted client management scheme.

The target clients must be thoroughly segmented and each of the needs must be addressed in a specific mode. Demographic data is important but is not relevant if taken…...

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The use of customer satisfaction surveys is critical in this regard. If Qantas, if they had
taken this approach, would have seen how many customers they were losing to
competitors in Melbourne, and further, would have found how many Qantas
customers has permanently defected to another airline for all their travel
needs within and outside of Australia as a result. Ultimately poor customer
service causes more than disgruntled customers; it causes lost sales and
lost customers not easily won back.
Q5) Larger consumers, especially in North America are putting a heavy
(pardon the pun) burden on private and public infrastructure. Health
authorities in Australia have ordered new ambulances to handle patients up
to 500 kilograms, the "It's a Small World" ride at Disneyland is closing
for renovations as today's park patrons are so heavy that they are swamping
the boats. (The ride was built in 1961 when the average man in the United
States weighed 80 kilograms and the average woman weighed 62…...

Disney's cultural influence has been gradual especially where Euro Disney's launch and eventual funding by the French government, including the addition of French management to run the entire entertainment complex. Instilling ownership at the local level has made significant gains for Disney in gaining the trust of the French consumers, in addition to alleviating the cultural friction points throughout Europe. The result today is that EuroDisney is seen as a viable holiday location for families from the UK, Germany, and Italy in addition to the Western European community of countries.
Nike's influence as a brand throughout Europe continues to grow as a result of the company's decision to sell through more direct channels, including the development of their own retail stores in both the U.S. And throughout Europe (Keeping Nike on the right track. 2005). The Nike brand has as a result been viewed more positively with the price being…...

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People who have a specific level of income, who are attracted to a specific part of a city, tend to share common values. The taxonomy called a Classification of Residential Neighborhoods (ACORN) system, created by the Consolidated Analysis Centers Incorporated (CACI) quantifies these trends over time. The use of Geodemographic techniques has proven to be reliable in site planning for new restaurants, grocery stories and retail outlets. Further, geodemographic techniques also isolate factors that lead to specific group definitions and affiliations as well. This field has grown from relatively simplistic techniques to complex statistical models that have increased inaccuracy and performance. In general, geodemographic techniques are used as the basis within retailers to plan their future locations and have proven to be reliable.
We sometimes increase our attitude toward a product after we buy it. How does the theory of cognitive dissonance explain this change?

The theory of cognitive dissonance is…...

It is instead in the collaboration of many volunteer organizations that a significant impact can be made on global warming. The need for creating a high level of collaboration across volunteer organizations that first create a specific messaging strategy by each intended audience is critical. The messaging for corporations and governmental organizations needs to focus on a highly collaborative, shared responsibility for creating healthier, more balanced environment for future generations. Social responsibility as the foundation for ensuring collaboration between corporations, government organizations, and volunteer organizations can galvanize all of these organizations to move in a common direction with each other. Messaging for individuals needs to stress that every person counts in changing global warming's impact on the planet and that everyone shares in the responsibility in preserving the environment and its natural resources. Putting effort into creating highly collaborative relationships across other volunteer organizations, coordinating and enlisting the help…...

As it has been mentioned thoughout the pevious sections, the liteatue eview epesents the eseach conducted though seconday souces. The infomation is divided into six distinct sub-sections as follows:
2.1. Consume behaviou

2.2. Maslow's hieachy of needs

2.3. The poduct band

2.4. Elements in the coffee puchase decision

2.5. The coffee industy and the coffee maket in Thailand

2.6. The ability of advetising and maketing to stimulate coffee puchase

2.1. Consume behaviou

Custome behaviou can be undestood though two diffeent lenses. At the fist level, thee is the actual eaction of customes in esponse to a cetain poduct o sevice. At a seconday level, thee is the analysis of the custome behaviou in ode to bette undestand the clients. A highly compehensive oveview of custome behaviou is offeed by (Pene, 2010). He stated that the official definition of custome behaviou states that the concept efes to the "study of individuals, goups, o oganisations and the pocesses they…...

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Question 18: We assume that there are certain elements which draw you to a specific coffee shop. Could you please assign a grade from 1 to 5 (1 being the least important and 5 being the most important) to the following elements, based on the role they play in your preference for a specific coffee shop.

a) The quality of the beverage (including smell and taste)

b) The price of the beverage

c) The ambiance at the coffee shop (including the music they play, the shop design and so on)

Marigold Hl Milk -- Consumer Behaviour
Marigold Milk

Various Marigold milk products are promoted as "Marigold HL Milk" and as "Marigold fresh Milk" in which the "HL" stands for "high-low" as a reference to the product's high nutritional value and low fat and lactose content. Clearly, this represents a marketing strategy designed to appeal to certain consumers (Howard, 2005), particularly those concerned with the nutritional value of the product. Generally, this promotional strategy suggests that the company recognizes a specific target audience for this particular milk product whereas it envisions a different target audience for its Fresh Milk. Young adults interested in their health and physical appearance are likely to respond to the promotional campaign for Marigold HL Milk whereas older adults and those more interested in the most natural or "wholesome" forms of food products are more likely to prefer Marigold Fresh Milk (Belch & Belch, 2006; Ogilvy, 1999).

Consumer Behaviour

Generally, consumers…...

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Belch, G. And Belch, M. (2006) Advertising and Promotion: An Integrated

Marketing Communications Perspective. New York: Irwin/McGraw-Hill.

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As Farrell (June 14, 2000) states: "The idea is to make milk the "cool" drink. The "mustache" still runs, with current stars such as Britney Spears." The success of such milk advertising to teens, it seems, represents an especially skillful endeavor, since milk is otherwise so much (and traditionally) associated with babyhood and early childhood, life stages (and self-images and reflections by others) that teens in particular generally yearn to leave far behind. Moreover, the considerable success of the "milk mustache" campaign proves very well the fact that just about anything can be successfully marketed to teens, as long as it is marketed to them with enough imagination, research, and skill (and with plenty of advertising dollars).
Some advertising for teens is also currently undergoing some interesting media changes, internationally. Within one global mega-conglomerate, Coca Cola, according to Foust (March 1, 2004):

Coke has diverted money into new initiatives that allow…...

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Farrell, G. (June 14, 2000). Milk does a body good, but ads do the industry even better. USA today. Money Section. 7b. Retrieved October 14, 2005, from www.usatoday.com/educate/college/business/casestudies/20010831-

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What is fascinating in this regard is the contention that Gladwell makes of "thin slicing" through a significant portion of the book also aligns with theoretical models of how consumers interpret and act on promotional and advertising content as well. The author also points to examples of how what he calls "rapid cognition" actually has prejudices and preferences already interpreted as part of the perceptual filters each person uses to interpret their environment. Gladwell points to both prejudices for specific types of products, messages, values and preferences for them as an example of how these attributes are part of every person's rapid cognition set of responses. These perceptual filters form the foundation of how a person also interprets advertising and promotional stimuli as well.
In summary, Gladwell (2005) has presented a fascinating set of precepts marketers need to keep in mind to earn and retain consumers' trust. The basics of…...

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Gladwell, M (2005). Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking. New York, NY: Little.Brown & Company (Back Bay Books Imprint).

From the author's analysis and historical narrative, it became apparent that food is also a commodity, not unlike manufactured objects or things sold and available commercially. Food is likened to a commodity because it is culture-specific and responsive to the economic state of societies at the time it became popular or highly patronized by the elite, the working class, and the peasants.
An interesting finding from Pilcher's investigation on the history of nouvelle cuisines is a detailed account of how popular food such as sushi and coffee became staples not only in Japan and Western countries, respectively, but also influenced the "landscape" that nouvelle cuisines currently dominate. Coffee and coffeehouses are examples of how a gastronomic product such as coffee became a 'commodity,' in the sense that it became a social habit that both elite and working classes cannot live without everyday (38). In the same vein, sushi became popular…...

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Advertisements are a great way to try and reach those consumers whom you are trying to get to buy your product. And keeping in mind the stages those consumers go through when making buying decisions can be very helpful in having a successful marketing campaign. There are several things that a company can look at when trying to determine if an advertisement was a success or not. They can look at satisfaction levels of the consumers or their share of the market for a particular product. Some experts feel that these are not the things to be focusing on but instead they should be looking at consumer loyalty and advocacy. It is thought that companies need focus on creating customers who not only come back time and time again to buy their product but also don't mind telling people about it (John Blasberg, Vijay Vishwanath, and James Allen, 2007).

hat companies…...

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Works Cited

Blasberg, John, Vijay Vishwanath, and Allen, James. "Turning Your Consumers into Die-Hard Fans." 2007. 10 March 2009.  http://www.bain.com/bainweb/PDFs/cms/Public/Turning%20your%20consumers%20into%20die%20hard%20fans.pdf 

Zahorsky, Darrell. "Break the Resistance of Consumer Buying Behavior." About.com. n.d. 10

March 2009. http://sbinformation.about.com/od/advertisementisingpr/a/behavior.htm

Links to Advertisements

Product use is usually a great interest to those in marketing, as this information can be used to best position a product for increased sales (Lars Perner, 2008). Using the Theory of Planned Behavior and the idea of perceived behavioral control, you can see how these advertisements hope to influence the consumers purchasing decisions. They are hoping that they will buy their product not based upon the idea of simply just buying the product, but the feelings that they will have about buying the product. They want the consumer to buy the product in order to have a nice smelling house. All three of these products have the same end result, a nice smelling house. It is the delivery of the nice smell that is different among each product.
The manufacture is counting on the fact that the consumer will buy the product because it will produce the end result…...

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Works Cited

Mehrmann, John. Executive Blueprints. 2007. 9 March 2009. "Why People Buy.  http://www.executiveblueprints.com/tips/080210_whypeoplebuy.htm 

Perner, Lars. USC Marshall. 2008. 9 March 2009. "Consumer Behavior: The Psychology of Marketing.  http://www.consumerpsychologist.com/ 

Links to Adverts

 http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA8225

Consumer Behavior -- Country of Origin Factors
Consumer Behavior

The newcomer to marketing reality might suppose that consumers tend to be influenced by country of origin competitive advantage when it comes to buying particular luxury goods; in fact, our contemporary penchant for the very latest in gimmicks, as well as the current demand for swiftness of operation, disproves that theory. This is not to deny Marieke de Mooij's insistence that, if one realizes that people are different, then extensions reinforce those differences. Cultural values have been at the root of consumer behavior in the past, and in some domains, they remain so -- but not in all (p. 1).

esults of Experimental esearch

Students in my course, "Writing for the Markets of Tomorrow" at the university, had their preconceived notions turned upside down by a recent survey they took based on the shopping trends of tourists to Nassau Square in Princeton, New Jersey. The…...

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Consumer Behavior
Current Events in Consumer Behavior

I choose to write about the first video on Youtube to reach over one billion views, as of very recently this year. The video comes from South Korea, and is an example of K-Pop, a genre of music and popular culture that has become increasingly popular around the world during this decade. The named of the video is "Gangham Style" by a South Korean artist named Psy. The video is a music video for a song and the video was only posted in July of 2012. Within less than six months, the number of views on this video have surpassed all of the greatest all time leaders in views on Youtube, mostly notably, pop star, Justin Bieber, who became famous because of the sheer number of views on his videos. Bieber went from a nobody, just an aspiring singer, to one of the most popular…...

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BBC News. (2012). Gangnam Style hits one billion views on Youtube. 2012, Web, Available from:   2012 December 21.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20812870 .

Maxwell, A. (2012). PSY's 'Gangnam Style' hits 1 billion views. USA Today, 2012, Web, Available from:   2012 December 21.http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2012/12/21/psy-gangnam-style-breaks-youtube-record/1784645/ .

Through the use of better marketing strategies and advertisements that are appealing to the customer, the executives use stimuli to grab the attention of the customer ("Consumers Behavior," n.d.). In most cases, such kinds of efforts by the executives are usually vividly clear and identified by the customers. Furthermore, executives can make better marketing and advertising decisions by understanding that customers are sometimes influenced by indiscernible stimuli which is also known as subliminal message. This is regardless of the fact that a customer only pays attention to few of the stimuli that he/she comes into contact with and usually interprets the messages he/she can recall.

Secondly, perception is important to executives in making better marketing and advertising decisions since it helps in devising marketing strategies. Executives make better marketing and advertising decisions by the use of a perceptual map which helps them to identify the characteristics that customers associate with a…...

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Babitski, I.V. (n.d.), What Is Perception?, Articleweekly.com, viewed 12 December 2010,

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Icmrindia.org (n.d.), Consumer Behavior: Chapter 5, Icmrindia.org, viewed 12 December 2010,