Herd Mentality

What is Herd Mentality?


1.

A sales, marketing, and business term describing why customers buy products or services because their friends, colleagues, neighbors, and family bought those same products and services previously. Also applies to a buyer's selection of a supplier or sales person to provide products and services to them.

Five years ago, our home had the only swimming pool on Apple Street. Now, thanks to herd mentality, over half the homes on Apple Street have a swimming pool.

See selling, business, marketing

2.

The inability or refusal to listen to one's own instinct or 'gut feeling' but to instead follow the majority for fear of being wrong, ostracized or ridiculed.

If a herd of animals were haded for a cliff, for the sake of a herd mentality, I doubt one would veer off or stop to save its own life.

See group, thought, instinct, common sense, virtue


71

Random Words:

1. Pittsburgh Lesbian Alliance Group Club. A new pittsburgh lesbian group, began in 2008. A place for young lesbians to become familiar wit..
1. Premium russian vodka, distilled from 75% wheat and 25% rye. Goes down smooth, tastes amazing. Zyr is one of the best vodka's on ..
1. one of Method Man's many aliases "Iron lung ain't got ta tell ya where hes comin' from." See ironlung, method..