Brand Choice: Revealing Customers' Unconscious-Automatic and Strategic Thinking Processes

by Randolph J. Trappey, A. Woodside

Overview

Customers use mental short cuts and they get into ruts when making product and brand choices. Brand Choice provides the tools that reveal customers' automatic thoughts and how such thoughts accurately forecast brand choice. Strategic thinking by customers includes their focusing attention and introspectively telling about how, when, where, and why they buy and use brands and products. For learning customers' strategic thinking, this book advocates in situ use of the long interview method.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349523573
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/16/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2005
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

RANDOLPH TRAPPEY has served on the faculties of the University of London's Royal Holloway School of Management, New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business in London and Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business in New Orleans. His research links cognitive science and marketing science with consumers' unconscious thinking about brand advertising. He is the founder and CEO of DataMiners Ltd., a consulting firm that specialises in providing data mining, modelling and CRM solutions to business, industry and government. His clients include Prudential, Vodafone, Nokia, Hewlett Packard, Electronic Arts, BUPA and the United States Government.

To find out more about the author go to:
http: //www.dataminers.co.uk

ARCH WOODSIDE is Professor of Marketing at Boston College in the USA. He is a Fellow and member of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, Royal Society of Canada, and the Society for Marketing Advances. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Research and Advances in Business Marketing & Purchasing, and he is the author of numerous books and articles in the fields of marketing, psychology, consumer research, advertising, and tourism.

To find out more about the author go to:
http: //www.bc.edu/schools/csom/departments/marketing/faculty/woodside/

Table of Contents

Customer Thinking and Brand Choice Automatic-Unconscious Process Models of Primary Choice Customer Portfolio Analysis among Competing Retail Store Brands Automatic Thinking and Store Choices by Near and Distant Customers Modelling Bank Loyalty Learning How Linkage Advertising and Prior Experience Affect Customer Behaviour The Role of Human Cognitive Ability (G) in Consumers' Automatic and Strategic Processing of Brands Conclusions and Implications for Future Research and Marketing Strategy