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BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS (B2B)
TOPIC #4: UNDERSTANDING MARKETING
BUYERS & MARKETS Organizational sales and purchases of goods
and services to support production of other
Consumer Behavior products, to facilitate daily company
Is the process through which the ultimate operations, or for resale.
buyer makes purchase decisions
BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS (B2)
Kurt Lewin A form of transaction between businesses,
A german-american psychologist, known as such as one involving a manufacturer and
one of the modern pioneers of social wholesaler
psychology in the US.
NATURE OF B2B
B=f(P,E) In terms of size and number of buyers:
This statement means that behavior (B) is a Fewer buyers but each buyer is larger than
function (f) of the interactions of personal others
influences (P) and pressures exerted by
outside environmental forces (E)
BUSINESS MARKET DEMAND
Interpersonal Determinants of Consumer
Behavior Derived Demand
"Interpersonal determinants" generally refer Demand that springs from or is derived
to the factors that influence or shape the from, a source other than the primary buyer
interactions and relationships between of a product
individuals.
● Cultural Influences Joint Demand
● Family Influences Demand for a product that depends on the
demand for another product used in
Personal Determinants of Consumer combination with it
Behavior
"Personal determinants" refer to the Inelastic Demand
individual factors or characteristics that Demand that throughout an industry will not
shape and influence a person's behavior, change significantly due to a price change
choices, and overall development.
● Needs and Motives
● Perception MARKET SEGMENTATION,
● Attitudes TARGETING, AND POSITIONING
● Learning
Market Oligopoly - market structure in which
Group of people with sufficient purchasing relatively few sellers compete and where
power, authority, and willingness to buy high start-up costs form barriers to keep out
new competitors
Target Market
Specific group of people a firm believes is Direct Competition - occurs among
most likely to buy its goods and services marketers of similar products
Indirect Competition - involves products
Market Segmentation that are easily substituted
Division of the total market into smaller, Time-based Competition - strategy of
relatively homogenous groups developing and distributing goods and
services more quickly than competitors
MARKETING CONCEPTS
MONOPOLY
Production
A single seller dominates trade in a good
- Mass Production and mass or service for which buyer can find no
distribution close substitutes.
Product OLIGOPOLY
P olitical
ETHICAL ISSUES IN MARKETING
E conomy
Bait-and-switch
S ocial
- Lower price, no stock, change to
T echnological expensive option.
B- Behavior
MARKET SEGMENTATION
MARKETING CHANNELS AND SUPPLY
MARKET CHAIN MANAGEMENT