ABSTRACT

This fully updated second edition of Understanding Customers is a recommended textbook for the Understanding Customers Certificate CIM paper. It is divided into six parts covering the social sciences, people as individuals, people in groups, people in society and people in organisations.


Each chapter of Understanding Customers consists of: * learning objectives and definitions * the theoretical background * exercises * issues to consider * current examples * implications for marketing * recent examination questions. Chris Rice is
Senior Lecturer in the Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University. He is a CIM examiner on the Understanding Customers paper and has widespread consultancy experience in both the private and public sector.

part |45 pages

Identifying the Customer

part |84 pages

Understanding Customer Behaviour

chapter |20 pages

‘What I need is a one-armed economist…'

Ideas from economics

chapter |19 pages

‘So you want to be a social climber?'

Marketing aspects of sociology

chapter |19 pages

‘Here we go, here we go, here we go…'

People in groups

chapter |24 pages

‘That's all I need – a customer with attitude…'

Attitudes and social behaviour

part |66 pages

Part Three Investigating Customers

chapter |20 pages

‘There's nowt so strange as folk…'

The behavioural sciences – problems and methods

chapter |29 pages

‘Excuse me, could I ask you a few questions…?'

An introductory look at marketing research

chapter |15 pages

‘What do you mean – I'm about average…?'

The presentation and interpretation of data

part |110 pages

Predicting and Influencing Customer Behaviour

chapter |19 pages

‘Whatever made you buy that?'

Consumer decision making and modelling

chapter |18 pages

‘Teach me tonight…'

Learning

chapter |25 pages

‘So how can we make it work…?'

Attitude change

chapter |25 pages

‘Pass me my crystal ball…'

Forecasting, change and the future