Encore: The Future of Managing Customer Mindshare

The buzz: Buy it now! The classic customer engagement model is evolving, as business customers and consumers search a broad set of indirect content –including social media often beyond your marketing team’s direct control – to support their purchasing decisions. – to support their purchasing decisions. With your as-yet-unknown buyer already 70%+ of the way to the real or virtual checkout counter before they initiate any person-to-person contact with your company, how can you capture their early-cycle mindshare? The experts speak. Marisa Kopec, SiriusDecisions: “In 2015, SiriusDecisions reports, b-to-b marketers must create and facilitate, on average, between 11 and 17 distinct buyer interactions to enable a purchase to occur.” Nick Robinson, SAP: “We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want” (Eric Ries). Eric Martin, SAP: “Marketing is too important to be left to the Marketing Department” (David Packard). Join us for The Future of Managing Customer Mindshare.