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Situational Factors That Affect People’s Buying Behavior

15 January, 2016 - 09:17

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Describe the situational factors that affect what consumers buy and when.
  2. Explain what marketing professionals can do to make situational factors work to their advantage.

Situational influences are temporary conditions that affect how buyers behave—whether they actually buy your product, buy additional products, or buy nothing at all from you. They include things like physical factors, social factors, time factors, the reason for the buyer’s purchase, and the buyer’s mood. You have undoubtedly been affected by all these factors at one time or another. Because businesses very much want to try to control these factors, let’s now look at them in more detail.