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vendredi 20 mars 2015

The Buy Motives Sales Personnel Need To Understand To Increase Sale Volumes

By Leslie Ball


The decision to purchase or not to purchase is preceded by a complex decision-making process normally influenced by several factors. These factors are a combination of emotional considerations and facts are can be isolated and discussed by the marketing team to enhance their sales. They are the buy motives and are responsible for a customer's decision to buy a particular product as opposed to the other and to buy from one shop and not the other.

A consumer will not purchase a product because he/she has been persuaded by the salesperson, but because the sales person has aroused the desire in him/her. The sales team has to understand the feelings, instincts, emotions, and thoughts that have a role in arousing the customer's purchasing decisions.

The marketers have been able to classify the customer purchase motives into two broad categories. These are the product based decisions and the patronage buying motivations. Each of these categories is further broken down to either the emotional or rational considerations.

The product buying motives are the factors that induce or prompt the customer to choose a particular product as oppose to the other. This may include the physical considerations such as shape, design, color, size, price, performance, package, and, dimension among others. It can also involve the physiological attraction traits of the products such as its contribution to enhance the social prestige of the user.

Under the emotional product buy motivations are factors such as prestige, pride, emulation, imitation, comfort, affection, ambition, habit, thirst, hunger, need for sexual appeal, and the need to be unique or be distinct. Generally, these are not facts but just emotional considerations.

The other subdivision of product buying motivations is the rational product buying decisions. There is where conscious consideration and logic goes into the process of decision-making. The buy decision is based on facts rather than emotions. Some examples include durability, convenience, economics, safety issues, low prices, versatility, and utility.

The second major classification is the patronage buying motivations. These are the considerations that induce the buyer to make the purchase form a particular shop as opposed to the others. In simple terms, the buyer tends to patronize one seller more than others when it comes to purchase of some products. These too fall into two categories; emotional and rational.

The emotional motivations that make the purchasers patronize some shops and not the others are quite many. The issues that may appear like the simple look and appearance of the shop in the manner in which the products are arranged appeals to the emotion of the clients. The other factors are prestige, imitation, habit, the level of service offered, and many others.

The rational patronage motivations are those motivations that arise when the buyer patronizes one shop as opposed to others after a careful consideration. It involves careful thinking and proper reasoning before opting for one seller against the other. Some of the factors in this category include convenience, lower price by the shop, the credit facilities offered, efficiency, service offered, treatment, a wide range of products and reputation among others.

Ideally, the sales person has to understand the consumer motives and strategically design their marketing plan in order to win most of the purchases. It is a wide area and requires careful planning and consideration in order to gain from this field of marketing.




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