Course
Consumer Behavior

Skills Developed

• Discover the consumer trends and expectations of the 21st century consumer
• Understand the concepts of consumer behaviour
• Identify new experiences and cross-channel customer paths
• Deciphering the marketing challenges and strategies of supermarkets, optimizing the use of digital technology to sell more effectively
• To know the new types of consumers following technological developments (the effect of artificial intelligence)

General Content

Each session will be in two parts:
Part 1 : The instructor’s presentation
Part 2 : The group exercise (to be noted by the instructor)

Day 1: Introduction, definition, consumer research and lifestyles – trends :

• Give a project to the students to lead
• Course on consumer behaviour: definition of the consumer, the customer, the decision-making processes leading to the purchase
• Trend definition, consumer typology
• Importance of profiles, lifestyles (INSEE, CREDOC, IPSOS, KANTAR)
• Customer knowledge: new tools to analyse consumer behaviour, needs and activities on the Internet
• Focus on Food marketing: revalidation of achievements: market research – importance of the customer in B to C
• Marketing of sustainable development
• Project: identify all sites, institutions to be considered, reconstruct the trend tree

Day 2: Companies and brands

• How to establish a lasting relationship with brands: what is a brand, what is its function, its value, what is its interaction with the customer… brand territory
• Importance of the logo, the slogan, its positioning…importance of creativity
• Rebuild trust with your customers: needs for explanations, transparency and proximity
• Involvement of social networks and community managers, relational interfaces
• The new means of communication: tablet, mobile and TV connected, see omnichannel
• Importance of emails in e-business
• Visualising marketing
• Project: propose a brand and study it: offer, service, relationship through hyperpersonalization

Day 3: Creativity/Marketing Session

• Propose a problem to students
• Creativity session and idea generation
• Work on user and empathy
• Working on a usage scenario: storytelling

Day 4: Evolution of the customer/consumer relationship

• Move from product service to product solution and customer experience to gamification
• Marketing history and evolution of customer knowledge
• Evolution of customer relations within the company: product – service – solution – experience – gamification – co-actor and ambassador
• New approaches to customer relations: Gamification the new tool to solicit the customer
• Understand the different types of games: interactive game, competition game, challenges
• Transpose the game world into communication to create buzz and collect customer data
• Facilitate customer loyalty and attract prospects to their website

Day 5: Digital marketing

• Involvement of digital in marketing
• How to understand Big Data data and build your marketing strategy
• Who uses them and how they are used
• What marketing strategies are in place to influence the potential customer
• Good knowledge and use of data for more targeted communication

Day 6: Merchandising

• Definition Merchandising: ‘a set of studies and application techniques implemented, separately or jointly, by distributors or producers,
  with a view to increasing the profitability of the point of sale and the sale of products, by constantly adapting the assortment to market needs, and by the appropriate presentation of the goods’. It can also be defined as “all the methods of presentation and valuation of products in a book service sales space”.
• Merchandising content
• How to set up a sales area
• The interior and exterior environment of the store
• Implementation of the product in the shelves
• The communication
• The increased reality in the act of purchase

Evaluation

50% exam – 50% final project

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