The future of marketing is personal. Brands are looking to create an in-depth understanding of the customer journey and how they can offer personalized interactions. Knowing your customer and their journey is down to effective use of data, and with more touchpoints and levers available to marketers than ever before the opportunities to engage are ample.
As we get ready for the Brand Marketing Summit Europe, we spoke with three leaders and summit speakers to discuss how to successfully engage your customers and the innovations that will shake the way you work up.
Incite Group has brought together key figures from Aon, Volkswagen and Spark Networks to discuss the key issues affecting brands marketing strategies and where they see the big, exciting opportunities arising for you in 2019, with the full range of insights available in an exclusive whitepaper.
In this interview series, we cover the big issues such as:
Contributing marketing leaders include:
The first interview of the series was with Michal Szaniecki. Michael is the passionate (and rewarded) Leader of Change for Global Brands in FMCG and Automotive with Brand and Business Building responsibilities in CEE, Germany and Switzerland.
He is also a member and Head of Juries (Drum Marketing, Effie, Young Creatives), while actively shaping the marketing landscape and digital revolution as a member of several international marketing associations, including Partner of Facebook C.A.Board; international coach in "business of non-conscious choice" for brands and students on three continents. In addition to all of this, Michal is a keynote speaker on CX.
As Marketing Director at Volkswagen, I had a unique pleasure of shaping and leading the customer journey and customer experience revolution for the brand. In my current role as a Managing Director for SEAT and Cupra, I joined a great explorative adventure with my team to build incredibly emotional automotive brands, for which the truly motivating nature of customer experience is still to be discovered.
1. Maximize conversions alongside the customer journey.
2. Build emotional resonance to invite more consumers and de-rationalize
the pricing component.
3. Build added value for consumers to navigate them to trade-up.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are well set, now the time has come to gain even more actionability and simplicity with data management and visualization to detect and monetize behavioral patterns in big data quicker than the competition. I’m still waiting for more profound and disciplined use of non-conscious choice savvy and neuroscience in shaping marketing strategies.
There is nothing more important than that. With the 900 interactions and three to six-months-long process to get just one transaction – there are plenty of chances to win and lose your consumers along the way. Understanding the customer journey and drivers and barriers along the way directly impact your profit and loss (P&L).
This is always a great opportunity to listen to, share and transplant CJ and CX ideas from diverse industries you would never think to get inspirations from – and to find missing components to your CJ puzzle.
Don't forget to access Incite's Group exclusive whitepaper to discover more of the insights gained from this interesting interview series.
Make sure you also find out more about this year's Brand Marketing Summit Europe and who is speaking, as well as download your brochure.
By Dave Chaffey
Digital strategist Dr Dave Chaffey is co-founder and Content Director of online marketing training platform and publisher Smart Insights. 'Dr Dave' is known for his strategic, but practical, data-driven advice. He has trained and consulted with many business of all sizes in most sectors. These include large international B2B and B2C brands including 3M, BP, Barclaycard, Dell, Confused.com, HSBC, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, M&G Investment, Rentokil Initial, O2, Royal Canin (Mars Group) plus many smaller businesses. Dave is editor of the templates, guides and courses in our digital marketing resource library used by our Business members to plan, manage and optimize their marketing. Free members can access our free sample templates here. Dave is also keynote speaker, trainer and consultant who is author of 5 bestselling books on digital marketing including Digital Marketing Excellence and Digital Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice. In 2004 he was recognised by the Chartered Institute of Marketing as one of 50 marketing ‘gurus’ worldwide who have helped shape the future of marketing. My personal site, DaveChaffey.com, lists my latest Digital marketing and E-commerce books and support materials including a digital marketing glossary. Please connect on LinkedIn to receive updates or ask me a question.
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