READING
CIRCLE 3
During the second semester, my first lecture was "Decoded : The Science Behind Why We Buy" write by Phil P. Barden.
What’s the book is about ?
Customer decision making.
Consumers are willing to pay £2 or £3 for a coffee in Starbucks, yet they know, objectively, that for the price of two cups they could buy a whole jar of coffee in a supermarket.
So they must be buying something else. Some sort of value applies over and above the physical product, but what is it? How does the brain perceive such value? In short, how do consumers decide ?
But with analysis of science He will be the first time he had experienced the power of an approach that was based not on beliefs and assumptions but on the latest scientific findings.
The model of cutomers decision had changed ?
Had to thinking differently because the mental model we reflect on marketing is according to way of thinking of the 1970 and now decision science has advanced so we have to progress, to update.
We havent to collect new date with new science like scanner we have to change the mental model for customer decision making.
I was confronted by a totally new mental model for marketing and consumer decision making based on decision science: the conclusions from the latest collective learnings from neuroscience, behavioural economics, cognitive and social psychology.
I found it fascinating because it offered me explanations of consumer behaviour which previously had mystified me, but at the same time it was irritating because it disproved some of my very basic assumptions about how consumers decide.
During my lecture I focused on Decision Science Understanding the Why of Consumer Behaviour
What this part is about ?
In marketing our goal is to influence purchase decisions. But what drives those decisions? Decision sciences help to answer this crucial question to know the mechanisms, rules and principles of decision making.
We will see what really drives purchasing behaviour, and how to apply these insights to maximize the benefit to marketing. Most importantly, we will introduce a practical framework to harness the learnings in our everyday marketing roles.
1: image brand crucial
it is crucial to achieve effective branding in our business. It is not only a key factor for our return on investment, but also a guarantee that we are not spending money on the competition or, in fact, that we are only advertising to support the entire category.
Our communication must effectively anchor our brands in the minds of consumers.
PURPOSE brand image = despite bcp of com marketing skills often the answer to why a brand breaks through or not remains in a black box
How to know how people buy there's a systematic approach to how people decide that we can follow so we're going to end up knowing
2 : INTUITIVES DECISION MAKING
Experiences on customer we shown them brands 2 different : their favorites and not : strong brands have a real effect in the brain, and this effect is to enable intuitive and rapid decision making without thinking. The part of reflectives thinking is not working when is favorites brands : the choice si very quick
The intuitive decision process works only for the favorite brand of the person.
The scientists call this the ‘first-choice brand effect’
So the goal of all the marketer is to be the first brand of a customer
So the goal is not to be relevant is to be the number one can be relevant tis not enough if your are the number 2 you will not gain money.
3:How decision are influenced thought psycological process ?
Ball + bat = 1;10
There are 1$ between bat and ball
How much cost the ball ?
We say immediately 10 c but it’s false : it’s 5c and the act cost 1.05 $
We do that because : « Doing the actual calculation is much harder for our brain, and most of us don’t bother because the 10 cent answer feels just right. »
= To understand the Consumer decision making we have to used two different field : economic and psycology.
Economics and psychology were, for a very long time, two completely separate worlds.
4: framework of human decision making = A science-based framework for marketing
Using a new framework of human decision making to translate mathematic and neuro analysis in marketing understanding value.
HOW It WORKS
It’s Kahneman’s Nobel Prize-winning framework showing the two systems that determine our decisions and behaviour
= 2 different systems 1 & 2 : the system 1 : never sleep : include perception and intuition = no thinking so very fast and all the time in. Action , required less energy
Syteme 2 is low, work step by step takes up a lot of energy because it is effortful, but has the benefit of being flexible. It enables us to make reflective, deliberate decisions. It is made for thinking.
If we want to see the two system work together we can image the system 1 as a autopilot repoisbinle of task done automatically (the autopilot is connected to what we perceive through all our senses.) and the system 2 as a pilot responsible of all the important tasks an crucial decision.
WHY IMPORTANT TO KNOW IT IN MARKETING :
SO STRONG BRANDS « cortical relief « ARE PROCESS IN SYSTEME 1 : purchase decision very fast. And the strong brand circumvent (contourner) System 2 processing. Weak brands, by contrast, activate System 2, i.e. consumers have to think about the purchase decision
These two système can be in contradiction :
In a daily life we don’t know that we used two different system we remark it only when these two system are in contradiction like for the exemple for the bat ball we know that there are a calcul but our intuition say to us different thing.
Exemple of other conflit between the two system when we look world green white in blue for example, the two system are in confit, between intuition and reflection : required concentration and control to avoid mistake
MY OPINION
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Very interesting to know more about the customer behavior and the decision process of customer : relevant to used science to understand these topics.
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Discover that everyting in marketing can be explain by scientific fact with our brain. Dioscover the strong link between science, psycology and marketing
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The impact of strong brand image in our brain
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we have the impression that we can choose but actually it’s our brain and if the marketer used scxientifict framework they can sell everything to us
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Book was very very intersting very hard to understand because lots of scientific vocabulary and knowledge but I will continue my reading because it interested me a lots