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Mendeley 20181214002937
Mendeley 20181214002937
Mendeley 20181214002937
activities related to buy and sell, disposal of goods, consumer’s emotion, mental and
behavioural of consumers. Any peoples who purchase goods for their daily uses or any
peoples who are using services that available in market are called as consumers.
The next point is, addictive. Maybe it is hard for us to admit to ourselves that we are
all obsessed and addictive to certain things that we like. For example nowadays, smartphone
is something that someone must have it. Especially to teenagers that they feeling must catch
up with the flow of technology and everyone must connected to socials media. How long a
person can stand without using smartphone and check the social networks? Without any
medical evidence of addiction, it is proven that when a person get a new notification from
socials media network, the shot of dopamine is released creating the pleasurable feeling
which is the same process occur when a drug addicted get a shot from drugs. When dopamine
disappeared, the person will craving to experience the feeling again. The often that person
feel the sensation, the greater the needs of product to satisfy their needs and craving. This is
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how addiction to something starts and it is not impossible to get addict to anything such as
shopping, gadgets, foods and etc. For marketers, they must also catching up with this
phenomena. They must try to understand what consumers nowadays are addicted to. For
example a mobile phone gamer, this type of consumer need a gadget that can be use
anywhere to play games. Marketers can attract them by promoting to them a phone with a big
capacity of battery, a phone with a great display or a phone with a great processor which is
very suitable for a mobile gamer.
References
Blackwell, Roger D, Paul W Miniard, and James F Engel, Consumer Behavior 9th, South-
Western Thomas Learning. Mason, OH, 2001
<https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3606>