1) The document introduces a new model called the "experience journey" for mapping consumer experiences with brands over time. It positions experiences as the continuous thread linking different stages of consideration, purchase, and use.
2) It provides examples of three brands - Coke, GoPro, and Red Bull - that are successfully implementing the experience journey approach. Their experiences are seamlessly integrated across the consumer decision process.
3) The experience journey model emphasizes custom mapping experiences for different industries and brands. It involves auditing activities, identifying gaps, and proposing solutions to create a seamless consumer experience.
This presentation was nominated at the Brilliant Presentation Awards 2013. In this slideshow, I brought together key approaches towards insight in advertising creation process. You may learn: why do we need to find and understand consumer insights; what is a consumer insight; why it's so important for brands; how to find real consumer insights; know the pathway towards insight; insight verification; how to be insightful; case studies on insight building.
Digital Marketing Strategy for a Cosmetic Brand - Love Beauty and Planet (A U...Abhishek Sinha
The digital marketing strategy outlines a detailed behavioral analysis on the Indian consumer journey from research > evaluation > consideration > purchase in the beauty industry. The digital marketing plan for the beauty brand has been created taking key insights from beauty consumer footprints and their behavior on the key digital channels to improve the beauty brand's discoverability and desirability on the top digital platforms.
This presentation was nominated at the Brilliant Presentation Awards 2013. In this slideshow, I brought together key approaches towards insight in advertising creation process. You may learn: why do we need to find and understand consumer insights; what is a consumer insight; why it's so important for brands; how to find real consumer insights; know the pathway towards insight; insight verification; how to be insightful; case studies on insight building.
Digital Marketing Strategy for a Cosmetic Brand - Love Beauty and Planet (A U...Abhishek Sinha
The digital marketing strategy outlines a detailed behavioral analysis on the Indian consumer journey from research > evaluation > consideration > purchase in the beauty industry. The digital marketing plan for the beauty brand has been created taking key insights from beauty consumer footprints and their behavior on the key digital channels to improve the beauty brand's discoverability and desirability on the top digital platforms.
The 12th edition of WARC’s annual Marketer’s Toolkit includes a series of reports aimed at helping marketers identify and focus on key areas of industry disruption, determine the most effective strategies, and benefit from arising opportunities.
The Creative Brief frames the strategy and positioning so your Agency can creatively express the brand promise through communication.
1, Marketing Execution must impact the brand’s consumers in a way that puts your brand in a stronger business position. The Creative Brief is the bridge between the brand strategy and the execution.
2. Through our Brand Positioning workshop, you will have all the homework on the brand needed to set up the transformation into a succinct 1-page Creative Brief that will focus, inspire and challenge a creative team to make great work.
3. The hands-on Creative Brief workshop explores best in class methods for writing the brief’s objective, target market, consumer insights, main message stimulus and the desired consumer response.
4. Brand Leaders walk away from the session with a ready-to-execute Creative Brief.
A report by thenetworkone and Kurio.
The contributing experts and agencies are (in an alphabetical order): Megan Encarnacion, Associate Director Social Media & Christopher Dimmock, SVP Integrated Strategy, Abelson Taylor (USA); Ramaa Mosley, CEO Adolescent Content/Youthtellers & Serenity Griffin, Community Manager & Michelle Castillo, Youthteller Consultant &Jola Adeoye, Youthteller Consultant & Sophie Wieters, Youthteller Consultant & Rea Sweets, Youthteller Consultant & Nathalie Alvarez, Youthteller Consultant & Jacob Thompson, Youthteller Consultant § Jadon Velasquez, Youthteller Consultant § Maya Minhas, Youthteller Consultant & Khrystina Warnstadt, Youthteller Consultant, Adolescent Content (USA); Alex Casanovas, Digital Director. Atrevia (ES); Natalie Chaney, Social Strategist, Barrett (USA); Seyi Alawode, Founder & Head of Strategy, CHL (NGA / UK); Eli Williams, Sr. Creative Strategist, Day One Agency (USA); Francesca Trevisan, Strategist, Different (IT); Jide Agbana, Global Product Marketing Manager, Enterfive (US / UK / NGA); Olivia Hussey, Junior Planner, The Hallway (AUS); James Hebbert, Managing Director, Hylink UK (CH / UK); Laura Marzec, Content Strategy at Imagination, part of The Mx Group (USA); Valentina Lagos, Social Media Manager & Felipe "Peluche" León, Digital Director & Mundy Álvarez, Planning Director & Pancho González, CCO, Inbrax (CH); Oana Oprea, Head of Digital Planning, Jam Session Agency (RO); Alix Le Bourgeois, Lead Strategist, JIN (UK/FR); Leigh Tayler, Integrated Strategy Director, Joe Public (SA); Amy Bottrill, Social Account Director, Launch (UK); Gaby Arriaga, Founder of Leonardo1452, Leonardo1452 (MX), Rajesh Mehta, Chief Strategy Officer & Dhruv Gaur, Digital Planning Lead, Medulla (IN); Maira Genovese, Founder and President, MG Empower (UK); Aryana Noorbakhsh, Senior Digital Marketing Executive, Osaka Labs (UK); Timotée Louise Gbaguidi, Digital Communications Director, PIABO (DE); Alexandre Ouairy, Founder and Director, PLTFRM (CN); Daffi Ranandi, Junior Insights Manager, Radarr (SGP); Hannah Nickels, Head Paid & Owned Media Thinker, Thinkerbell (AUS); Allison Lee, Social Team Co-Lead, UltraSuperNew (JP)
This is the presentation that I gave to the Young Planners at Cannes 2014. The data herein is taken from survey distributed through @cheiluk, @yellif and @cr
Workshop to provoke you to think differently and see how a brand’s BIG IDEA reflects the brand’s SOUL and transforms the experience and bond into a REPUTATION
Planning Hype - Engineering hype before a product launchJulian Cole
For more strategy resources sign up to Planning Dirty at https://www.planningdirty.com/newsletter
The following is a guide for how to create excitement around a product before it has launched.
This is critical for how to market music, movies and games where the first-week window is critical.
The presentation was created by Julian Cole and Melissa Pepers.
An idea collected from different sources in internet and hush-puppies website for creation of a creative brief which helps in product promotion and advertisement....
This complete deck is oriented to make sure you do not lag in your presentations. Our creatively crafted slides come with apt research and planning. This exclusive deck with twenty-three slides is here to help you to strategize, plan, analyze, or segment the topic with clear understanding and apprehension. Utilize ready to use presentation slides on Brand Activation PowerPoint Presentation Slides with all sorts of editable templates, charts and graphs, overviews, analysis templates. It is usable for marking important decisions and covering critical issues. Display and present all possible kinds of underlying nuances, progress factors for an all-inclusive presentation for the teams. This presentation deck can be used by all professionals, managers, individuals, internal external teams involved in any company organization.
Workshop for Brand Leaders to make them smarter at media planning and help them make better decisions with their Brands. We help the Brand Leader look at media as an investment within the planning process, assess media’s role in your advertising, and show strengths/weaknesses of both traditional and digital media.
TAM AdEx - Half Yearly Celebrity Endorsement Report (H1'23)Social Samosa
Tam AdEx releases its Celebrity endorsement report for H1 2023 and the report shows Akshay Kumar having an average visibility of 31 hours/day across channels.
Research, particularly academic, into Branding, Design, and Business, often seeks to identify common issues of practice within identified subject areas and create frameworks or models, which will help practitioners within business organisations to operate more effectively.
In building case studies through a speculative comparison of two B2C brands; Lego and Unilever, such brand models are applied here to examine why each company has found it necessary to adopt changes to their strategy to incur different relationships with their customers.
As companies look for ways to grow their user base quickly and at scale, they've turned to the growth strategies made popular by companies like AirBnB, Quora, Facebook and others. Growth Hacking at its core is the discipline of marrying product features with distribution tactics to get massive user growth with very little paid marketing spend. This presentation reviews popular growth hacking case studies, how you can evaluate your product for growth hack opportunities, and how to get your team and product focused on growth for 2013.
Get our designing for viral growth infographic here: http://bit.ly/12badgO
Learn more about digital telepathy here: http://www.dtelepathy.com/
Consumers value brand experience more and more when they purchase a product or service. Read our brand experience best practices to learn how to build your brand in a way that will resonate with the people whom you want to reach.
We believe 2010 will be the year of experience brands, because marketers are ready to bring new discipline to what they've been doing for years: orchestrating all their touchpoints to create a consistent brand experience and achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
We're committed to bringing thought leadership to this dialogue-starting with a new article that defines experience brands, cites some experience brand heroes and points to ways experience brands can improve ROI.
The 12th edition of WARC’s annual Marketer’s Toolkit includes a series of reports aimed at helping marketers identify and focus on key areas of industry disruption, determine the most effective strategies, and benefit from arising opportunities.
The Creative Brief frames the strategy and positioning so your Agency can creatively express the brand promise through communication.
1, Marketing Execution must impact the brand’s consumers in a way that puts your brand in a stronger business position. The Creative Brief is the bridge between the brand strategy and the execution.
2. Through our Brand Positioning workshop, you will have all the homework on the brand needed to set up the transformation into a succinct 1-page Creative Brief that will focus, inspire and challenge a creative team to make great work.
3. The hands-on Creative Brief workshop explores best in class methods for writing the brief’s objective, target market, consumer insights, main message stimulus and the desired consumer response.
4. Brand Leaders walk away from the session with a ready-to-execute Creative Brief.
A report by thenetworkone and Kurio.
The contributing experts and agencies are (in an alphabetical order): Megan Encarnacion, Associate Director Social Media & Christopher Dimmock, SVP Integrated Strategy, Abelson Taylor (USA); Ramaa Mosley, CEO Adolescent Content/Youthtellers & Serenity Griffin, Community Manager & Michelle Castillo, Youthteller Consultant &Jola Adeoye, Youthteller Consultant & Sophie Wieters, Youthteller Consultant & Rea Sweets, Youthteller Consultant & Nathalie Alvarez, Youthteller Consultant & Jacob Thompson, Youthteller Consultant § Jadon Velasquez, Youthteller Consultant § Maya Minhas, Youthteller Consultant & Khrystina Warnstadt, Youthteller Consultant, Adolescent Content (USA); Alex Casanovas, Digital Director. Atrevia (ES); Natalie Chaney, Social Strategist, Barrett (USA); Seyi Alawode, Founder & Head of Strategy, CHL (NGA / UK); Eli Williams, Sr. Creative Strategist, Day One Agency (USA); Francesca Trevisan, Strategist, Different (IT); Jide Agbana, Global Product Marketing Manager, Enterfive (US / UK / NGA); Olivia Hussey, Junior Planner, The Hallway (AUS); James Hebbert, Managing Director, Hylink UK (CH / UK); Laura Marzec, Content Strategy at Imagination, part of The Mx Group (USA); Valentina Lagos, Social Media Manager & Felipe "Peluche" León, Digital Director & Mundy Álvarez, Planning Director & Pancho González, CCO, Inbrax (CH); Oana Oprea, Head of Digital Planning, Jam Session Agency (RO); Alix Le Bourgeois, Lead Strategist, JIN (UK/FR); Leigh Tayler, Integrated Strategy Director, Joe Public (SA); Amy Bottrill, Social Account Director, Launch (UK); Gaby Arriaga, Founder of Leonardo1452, Leonardo1452 (MX), Rajesh Mehta, Chief Strategy Officer & Dhruv Gaur, Digital Planning Lead, Medulla (IN); Maira Genovese, Founder and President, MG Empower (UK); Aryana Noorbakhsh, Senior Digital Marketing Executive, Osaka Labs (UK); Timotée Louise Gbaguidi, Digital Communications Director, PIABO (DE); Alexandre Ouairy, Founder and Director, PLTFRM (CN); Daffi Ranandi, Junior Insights Manager, Radarr (SGP); Hannah Nickels, Head Paid & Owned Media Thinker, Thinkerbell (AUS); Allison Lee, Social Team Co-Lead, UltraSuperNew (JP)
This is the presentation that I gave to the Young Planners at Cannes 2014. The data herein is taken from survey distributed through @cheiluk, @yellif and @cr
Workshop to provoke you to think differently and see how a brand’s BIG IDEA reflects the brand’s SOUL and transforms the experience and bond into a REPUTATION
Planning Hype - Engineering hype before a product launchJulian Cole
For more strategy resources sign up to Planning Dirty at https://www.planningdirty.com/newsletter
The following is a guide for how to create excitement around a product before it has launched.
This is critical for how to market music, movies and games where the first-week window is critical.
The presentation was created by Julian Cole and Melissa Pepers.
An idea collected from different sources in internet and hush-puppies website for creation of a creative brief which helps in product promotion and advertisement....
This complete deck is oriented to make sure you do not lag in your presentations. Our creatively crafted slides come with apt research and planning. This exclusive deck with twenty-three slides is here to help you to strategize, plan, analyze, or segment the topic with clear understanding and apprehension. Utilize ready to use presentation slides on Brand Activation PowerPoint Presentation Slides with all sorts of editable templates, charts and graphs, overviews, analysis templates. It is usable for marking important decisions and covering critical issues. Display and present all possible kinds of underlying nuances, progress factors for an all-inclusive presentation for the teams. This presentation deck can be used by all professionals, managers, individuals, internal external teams involved in any company organization.
Workshop for Brand Leaders to make them smarter at media planning and help them make better decisions with their Brands. We help the Brand Leader look at media as an investment within the planning process, assess media’s role in your advertising, and show strengths/weaknesses of both traditional and digital media.
TAM AdEx - Half Yearly Celebrity Endorsement Report (H1'23)Social Samosa
Tam AdEx releases its Celebrity endorsement report for H1 2023 and the report shows Akshay Kumar having an average visibility of 31 hours/day across channels.
Research, particularly academic, into Branding, Design, and Business, often seeks to identify common issues of practice within identified subject areas and create frameworks or models, which will help practitioners within business organisations to operate more effectively.
In building case studies through a speculative comparison of two B2C brands; Lego and Unilever, such brand models are applied here to examine why each company has found it necessary to adopt changes to their strategy to incur different relationships with their customers.
As companies look for ways to grow their user base quickly and at scale, they've turned to the growth strategies made popular by companies like AirBnB, Quora, Facebook and others. Growth Hacking at its core is the discipline of marrying product features with distribution tactics to get massive user growth with very little paid marketing spend. This presentation reviews popular growth hacking case studies, how you can evaluate your product for growth hack opportunities, and how to get your team and product focused on growth for 2013.
Get our designing for viral growth infographic here: http://bit.ly/12badgO
Learn more about digital telepathy here: http://www.dtelepathy.com/
Consumers value brand experience more and more when they purchase a product or service. Read our brand experience best practices to learn how to build your brand in a way that will resonate with the people whom you want to reach.
We believe 2010 will be the year of experience brands, because marketers are ready to bring new discipline to what they've been doing for years: orchestrating all their touchpoints to create a consistent brand experience and achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
We're committed to bringing thought leadership to this dialogue-starting with a new article that defines experience brands, cites some experience brand heroes and points to ways experience brands can improve ROI.
This presentation, on the intersection of branding and user experience, was delivered to students and faculty at the Indiana University School of Informatics on November 13, 2009
Eighty percent of companies think their brands have superior experiences. Unfortunately, only eight percent of their customers agree.
It’s time for brands to tackle the experience gap – the gap between how consumers want to experience brands, and what brands are actually doing.
It’s not just a marketing imperative; it’s a business imperative. That’s why we’re proud to share our latest research looking at brand experience examples and ideas that you can apply to your brand.
New research proves consumers prefer brands that offer unique experiences. Many are even willing to pay more for unique brand experiences. Check out our global research on brand experience trends and learn how to apply these insights to your brand.
Why do companies need to manage the entire customer experience? New analysis reveals that the entire customer journey - the series of interactions with a brand - is more important than any single touchpoint experience. Leading companies identify and effectively manage a few "key journeys." When companies perfect managing the entire customer journey, they reap significant benefits—including enhanced customer and employee satisfaction, reduced customer churn, increased revenue, lower costs, improved organizational collaboration, and competitive advantage. Presented at the Harvard Business Review webinar. For more on customer decision journeys: http://mckinseyonmarketingandsales.com/topics/customer-decision-journey
Mapping the customer experience: innovate using customer experience journey mapsJoyce Hostyn
Do you know what your organization looks like from your customer’s perspective? In the digital age, silos and organizational bureaucracy manifest themselves through your digital presence. You can bridge these silos and overcome a bureaucratic inside-out mindset by visualizing the customer (learner, elder, citizen, patient, employee) experience through a customer experience journey map that captures both actual and emotional aspects of the customer experience. Then, map in hand, you can use it to design great outside-in customer experiences for your organization.
Brands are made for and by humans. Their greatest wish is to connect with humans. So why do they find it so difficult? From jarringly chirpy digital, social & mobile experiences to misguided content marketing efforts, brands’ (and, let’s face it, agencies’) attempts to ‘be more human' often make us cringe.
And now, algorithms and big data means brands know more about us than ever before, and with this their opportunities to ‘act human’ have multiplied exponentially. But in many cases, their brand building efforts are failing: either to be convincing or in adopting the right aspects of humanity. And in so doing they become clingy, nosey or just plain creepy.
So brands face a paradox: the more they try to be human, the more they risk alienating the humans they so want to connect with. So can brands be ‘more human’? Or more importantly…should brands be more human?
What’s missing from your experience tech strategy?
The relationship between events and technology is a subject of much debate and experimentation; clients are asking for the latest technology and our industry has a rich heritage when it comes to harnessing new and innovative technologies to create ever more impressive, immersive and interactive experiences.
But we risk using it for its own sake, forgetting that it is great ideas – not great technologies – that engage audiences and deliver effective results for brands. So technology can be a great enabler, but it can’t create a great experience on its own.
For most content marketers, sourcing or creating content is their biggest challenge. In our industry, however, we have always been creating killer content. It’s just that we often haven’t had a strategy to share it or to target it as a marketing tool.
More and more, brands are realizing the power of integrating tactics like events and digital campaigns into a larger effort to build the long-term relationships with their customers that help them reach their overall marketing goals.
However, budget, influenced by emotion, is all too often the primary factor in deciding how and when to employ these valuable marketing assets.
Enter portfolio planning: a strategic approach that allows companies to make informed decisions on the right number, type, frequency, and cadence of tactics needed to generate an optimal experiential marketing mix. In essence, “brand experience media planning”.
In the latest Jack POV, learn the 6 principles of portfolio planning and how you can incorporate a strategic approach to better engage your customers.
As always, let me know if you’d like to learn more about how brand experience media planning can help your business.
Find out more at jackmorton.com.
Big data has given marketers an unprecedented view into the attitudes and behaviors of larger audiences than ever before. But as we become increasingly reliant on big-data analytics, we’re also basing our insights on the same data pool—and arriving at very similar ideas. It’s a race to the middle that can dilute brand perceptions and value.
For brands to stand out, big data isn’t enough. That’s where small data comes in.
In our latest white paper, we show how using small data—the tiny clues that can uncover consumers’ drivers and desires—can uncover consumer insights that can't be found through big data alone.
Read the white paper, and find out how small data can lead to breakthrough ideas that transform brands and brand experience.
You’re not the expert. Your customers are, and who your customer is, is changing rapidly. Learn more about the digital consumer, how to bring new life to your customer experience, and inspire your team with workshop activities. Take a deeper look into the key drivers of your business, reinvigorate your customer experience, and gain insight from one of the newest inspiring entrepreneurs, who built his business around an out-of-the-ordinary customer experience. Why not create an experience that will leave your customers talking and sharing your brand with everyone? These musings were gathered after attending the Next Generation Customer Experience Conference in San Diego, March 2015.
With the Marketing Canvas, you can describe, design, challenge and pivot your Marketing Strategy on ONE PAGE.
In the following slides, you will find a DO-IT-YOURSELF process for applying this methodology for your business (Startup, SME or Corporate companies).
Enjoy the process and don’t hesitate to comment, criticise or contribute.
Laurent (@lbouty, laurent@bouty.net)
Trade shows won't help you achieve all of your marketing and business objectives. But they are an important milestone to getting there. A win on the trade show floor can reverberate throughout all your marketing efforts.
Here are seven tips to help your brand score points, win customers and be awesome:
1, Define your strategy for getting to the next level
2. Earn points by playing to win
3. Understand your arsenal and bring the right equipment
4. Know the rules
5. The game begins when you start playing
6. The game doesn't stop when the whistle blows
7. Refine your strategy to advance to the next level
What does it take to deliver a superb customer journey in today's globally connected and always-on world? Learn why moments matter and how Smarter Commerce is letting businesses apply insights and data to reach out to and engage customers at every crucial touch point.
Reshape your business to become disruption proof. Today every business should challenge it's purpose, it's value proposition and business model to become future-proof. Products and services are becoming increasingly interchangeable. Almost any industry is feeling the urgency. Old handles do not work anymore and straightline thinking stops here. One has to make sure that one delivers meaningful experiences that capture value for clients and all stakeholders. Explore the possibilities to become certified experience professional. Registration for the new program 2016 is open.
Branding is Dead: Long Live Brand ExperienceGraham Brown
What is brand in 2015? Brand is no longer what the ad agency says about your product or service but what customers say, share and experience about your company.
That means how your retail staff interact with customers or how your marketing team creates conversations at your events is more important than what's said in an advertising campaign.
This is the reality of the sharing economy in 2015. Experience is only real when shared and if customers aren't sharing your brand, you might as well be invisible.
Click here to find out more about Brand Experience and why the era of Branding is dead...
How to build a persona - Introduction of the 7C modelRalph Poldervaart
Learn how to make persona's with the 7C-model. What do you want to know of your target groups before you build persona's? How do you stimulate the organisation to work with persona's?
If marketing has one goal, it’s to reach consumers at the moments
that most influence their decisions. That’s why consumer electronics
companies make sure not only that customers see their televisions in
stores but also that those televisions display vivid high-definition
pictures. It’s why Amazon.com, a decade ago, began offering targeted
product recommendations to consumers already logged in and ready
to buy. And it explains P&G’s decision, long ago, to produce radio and
then TV programs to reach the audiences most likely to buy its
products—hence, the term “soap opera.
Gain Perspective About How Strong Brands Make More Money
The third issue of Perspectives, Millward Brown’s quarterly publication, is now available to download on iPad and as a PDF, or view online. Read an advance excerpt from The Meaningful Brand, the new book by Nigel Hollis available later this month from Palgrave Macmillan.
If you missed the previous issues, don’t miss this one. In addition to the exclusive preview from The Meaningful Brand - How Strong Brands Make More Money, it’s full of valuable content about the smartphone wars, effectively repurposing TV ads for online use, and what marketers are learning from neuroscience.
CCF provides near real-time insights into the customer experience and journey that previously could only be obtained through labor-intensive and time-consuming traditional research techniques. By applying predictive technologies to social data, SDL gives companies the means to better understand what customers care about, the reasons behind their actions, their attitudes and triggers for their behaviors, all of which can effectively translate audience experiences into strategic opportunities.
Informes PwC - Encuesta Total Retail GlobalPwC España
El informe "Hacia un modelo de Total Retail", elaborado por PwC, analiza las expectativas y hábitos de consumo del comprador online, a partir de 15.000 entrevistas a compradores digitales de todo el mundo, y las implicaciones para las compañías del sector de distribución y consumo en los próximos años.
Informe de PwC sobre las expectativas y hábitos de consumo del comprador onlineMaría Bretón Gallego
El informe Hacia un modelo de ‘Total Retail’, elaborado por PwC, analiza las expectativas y hábitos de consumo del comprador online, a partir de 15.000 entrevistas a compradores digitales de todo el mundo, y las implicaciones para las compañías del sector de distribución y consumo en los próximos años.
Internet y las nuevas tecnologías han multiplicado la influencia del consumidor, pero, ¿qué les están pidiendo a las marcas? Las nuevas expectativas y hábitos del consumidor digital tendrán importantes implicaciones para las compañías del sector en los próximos años
How to reach a customer in the right wayTable of Contents .docxpooleavelina
How to reach a customer in the right way
Table of Contents
Which is the right channel to reach a customer?
Single-channel, multi- channels and omni- channels
The example of retail banking
Guiding the customers
The right incentives, and the “carrot” & “stick” theory
Creating a buzz
Which is the right content?
Content marketing and types of content marketing
Indented Study Contribution
When is the right time?
Ethical Consideration
Methodology and the example of Laura’s survey
How to reach a customer in the right way
Encourage people to join your email list
Start a blog or a website
Host a photo contest
Encourage reviews
Ask for referrals
Write a survey, questionnaires, poll etc..
Which is the right channel to reach a customer?
For a long time buying goods has taken place via the two main channels: the website of the retailer and/or the traditional retail sales point. It all used to be so simple as separate channel managers, separate channel-targeted segments, channel-aligned products, customers asked to deal with specific channels etc.
Nevertheless things have changed to date. New interactive features are provided on Websites to reach consumers, for example the possibility to try the product virtually and to achieve customised recommendations while mobile channels form the new mainstream of universal shopping, always and anywhere, via the mobile device. There is a rapid increase in the number of channels that enable users to freely access and compare, choose and buy products. Past studies indicate that customers participate more transactions in the new multichannel scenario as opposed to single-channel buyers (Dholakia et al., 2005, Seck and Philippe, 2013).
Omni-distribution channel is defined as using everything manufacturer/retailer have to gain, provide seamless, integrated and unified experience to retain customers.
Omni-distribution channel is about developing customer relations, but it has various challenges. Studies by Ogden-Barnes & Lowther (2012) on Australian retailing decision-making show that customers are lost due to inconsistent communication across various distribution channels during the first engagement phase of Omni-channel. The Kana Company research on Omni channel in 2013 sums up few Omni-channel drawbacks: the retailers face a fuzz in understanding the definition, mission and location of Omni channel in their organisation.
The omni-distribution channel is still in its infant stages, and its evangelization needs to be accelerated as it has enormous benefits that do not stand up to its dares.
The example of retail banking
Retail banking provides financial services for individuals and family
The three most important functions are:
Credit
Deposit
Money management
First of all retail banks offer consumers credit to buy homes, cars, and furniture.
Include mortgages, auto loans, and credit cards.
Yet multichannel marketing is more complicated than it might seem. Industries often multiply their channels ...
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ZenithOptimedia is championing a new strategic approach to communications planning that sees a radical rethink of the way clients prioritise and allocate resources across paid, owned and earned media.
Numa era de mudanças organizacionais e perturbações globais sem precedentes, o relatório Global Marketing Trends 2022 apresenta as principais tendências de marketing, fruto dos desafios de negócio que enfrentamos
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Assignment: Consumerism Affecting Innovation DUE 2/6
As we continue to explore the impact of emerging technologies on business and society, your second assignment is to prepare a discussion on how the new consumerism is affecting innovation in business. We discussed new consumerism last week (see lecture below pg 2-8). The assignment is as follows:
- Explain consumerism (in your own words!)
- Identify a specific aspect of new consumerism and provide detailed examples of how this new consumerism resulted in innovative responses by an organization of your choosing.
- Provide 3 or 4 bullets on ways that companies can 'listen' (and interact with) their customers in order to not miss innovative opportunities. Think like a consultant: if you had to provide 3 or 4 suggestions for an organization to do, what would you suggest?
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All original writing please and provide your sources.
A business-like presentation / proper spelling, grammar is important.
“New Consumerism”
Overview
With the onslaught of disruptive technology, consumer behavior and ultimately decision-making is changing like never before. The new age consumers are taking control of their journey, discovering relevant product and service information and making decisions their way in real time. With Internet and social media as their weapon, consumers are making sure that businesses have no other way out, than to compete with each other in real time. The behavior of the interconnected consumers is not only changing, it is opening and closing traditional touch points, places, and ways to engage customers in real time and at the right time. Although we are talking about connected customers here, let’s also learn about the three categories that various consumers fall into –
Generation C is building an efficient human network where information and experiences serve as the ties that bind relationships. Therefore, it seems only fitting that firms apply a human touch in their marketing efforts. It is important that firms follow these four steps to connect with the customers:
1 Listen
2 Learn
3 Engage
4 Adapt
How do we manage the emerging trends being driven by these consumers?
Understanding the customers is the only way to develop effective and meaningful marketing, sales, and service strategies. This is the only way a company is able to develop or inspire a vision to provide their customers the satisfaction and experience they desire. Without this, the experience is left to the customer to determine and share.
This creates chaos and confusion in the market. Since connected consumers are the most influenced by those they know, the brand value of a product or service spirals down faster than one thinks.
This means organizations need to be on top of their products, brand - and customers.
The Dynamic Customer Journey
The Dynamic Customer Journey (DCJ) is about businesses building on existing experiences to retain customers. During the journey,.
Increasing the Value of the Retail Store Channel;
• In an increasingly complex omni-channel retail environment, the retail store still plays an important role through offering an in-person brand experience.
• Offering added-value retail services is one strategy that can emphasize the value of visiting a store.
• These added-value services must be strategically tailored to specific customer needs in order to cause a significant impact on customer behaviour.
• There are various factors that contribute to the branding strategy (new brand or co-branded) of added-value services, such as service type, project timeline, and overall objectives.
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2. New realities, new journeys / 3
Defining the experience journey / 5
3 Brands getting experience right / 7
Mapping experience journeys / 11
Learn more / 13
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What’s inside
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New realities, new journeys
Craig Millon
Like all of us, marketers need maps.
For marketers, the most fundamental journey
to track is the one customers go through to
purchase their products. Maps help marketers
set strategy and priorities against this journey.
How else would they know when and how to
invest in order to create the right moments in
time and the right relationships over time – to
drive sales, to inspire referrals and to
earn re-purchase?
Across industries, consumer journeys have
changed radically in recent years. There
are many more brand choices and infinitely
more sources of information about them.
There are new ways to seek out and share
recommendations. And – picture a shopper
using a mobile phone to scan a bar code and
comparison shop a toothbrush – consumers are
empowered in ways that couldn’t have been
imagined a generation ago.
With consumers’ journeys so radically different,
so too are the models marketers use to
map them.
Fig. 1 McKinsey’s 2009 “Consumer Decision Journey”
Moment of
purchase
Initial
consideration
set
Trigger
Information gathering, shopping
Ongoing exposure
Active evaluation
Postpurchase experience
Loyalty loop 3. Ultimately, the consumer
selects a brand at
the moment of purchase
2. Consumers add or subtract brands
as they evaluate what they want
1. The consumer
considers an initial
set of brands,
based on brand
perceptions and
exposure to recent
touch points
4. After purchasing a product or service, the consumer
builds expectations based on experience to inform the
next decision journey
Second Moment
of Truth
(Experience)
First Moment of
Truth (Shelf)
Stimulus
Which becomes the next person’s ZMOT
Fig. 2 Google’s 2011 “Zero Moment of Truth”
4. Stimulus Consideration Purchase Use
SHARING PATH
LOYALTY LOOP
Time
CompetitiveSet
Fig. 3 Jack Morton’s 2013 “Experience Journey”
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people get closer to purchase. Google took this
last implication further with its “zero moment of
truth” model (fig. 2), which emphasizes the extent
to which consumers’ active information-
gathering has grown in scope and influence in
recent years.
As I said, maps help marketers set strategy
and priorities against consumer journeys. Both
McKinsey’s and Google’s models showed
marketers that they needed to change: for
example, by spending less on above the line
advertising and more on search, shopper
marketing, customer experience design and
programs that generate referrals and
word of mouth.
I’m indebted, as all of us at Jack Morton are, to
McKinsey’s and Google’s thinking. But as a brand
experience agency, we have a different (but
complementary) view of how things work, which
builds on their models: it’s called the
experience journey (fig. 3).
Back when I was being trained as a marketer,
the “purchase funnel” reigned as the assumed
manner in which consumers moved to purchase.
Consumers were thought to move from being
aware of several brands with a sector to a
smaller group of brands they’d consider once
real shopping started. The goal of marketers was
to move the consumer logically down the funnel
to become the one chosen brand at the end.
Re-purchase and recommendations were tacked
on at the end, but were assumed to work with
similar linearity. New consumer journey models
– especially those put forth by McKinsey in 2009
and Google in 2011 – have destroyed this once
set-in-stone approach.
As McKinsey’s research-based report proved ,
consumers don’t move logically and inexorably
in one direction, but rather in a layered loop,
with postpurchase experiences informing future
decision journeys (fig. 1).
Rather than limiting choices as they commence
shopping, people actually add brands to
their consideration set. And rather than being
passively led down the funnel by company-
driven marketing, consumers rely more on active
information-seeking about brands; company-
driven marketing becomes less influential as
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2
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Defining the experience journey
their experience journey depending on their
particular circumstances.
• The experience journey puts even more
emphasis on the variability of any consumer
journey circa 2013. There is no singular
consumer journey; there are infinite and
multidirectional consumer journeys.
All of this is an accurate reflection, we believe,
of the more competitive landscape and complex
media environment in which we all now live
– with the added layer of experience as the
differentiator that wins consumers’ consideration,
commitment and word of mouth.
In the experience journey model, brands win at
moments in time and moments over time –
by creating rich, technology-enhanced brand
experiences that keep consumers engaged
by the brand throughout the journey. These
experiences extend as the threads that
keep consumers connected from stimulus to
consideration, purchase and use.
Research proves out that experiences define
brands throughout consumer journeys. Based on
the input of consumers surveyed in 2011 , we
know that the vast majority will only recommend
brands based on experience – and that just as
many expect brands to do “something special”
(like an experience) to even get their
attention (fig. 4).
Like the McKinsey and Google models, the
experience journey begins with a stimulus and
moves through consideration, purchase and use
– but there are key differences. Most importantly,
experience is the continuous thread linking the
journey itself. That’s a fundamental difference,
built on the strong belief that it is compelling,
differentiating experiences that keep consumers
engaged with brands these days, and less
subject to distraction by the competition.
In addition:
• We also see a “loyalty loop” cycle around re-
purchase (which requires brands to invest in their
after-purchase interactions and customer service
as potential strengths).
• We extend referral (both giving and seeking
out) from isolated moments to a continuous
path of sharing across the whole experience
journey. Sharing your experience with a brand
is not something that happens at the end of the
process but throughout the process.
• We map time across the X axis and
competitors across the Y axis – allowing us to
help clients across different industries to map
Fig. 4
Experience is the owned media that earns media
Source: Jack Morton research, 2012.
Global
Average
US Brazil China India
76 79 74 78 78
75 65 71 84 78
I only advocate brands when I have had great personal
experiences with them
With all the media and information available to me, if a brand
wants to get my attention it has to do something special
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6. /6The Experience Journey
Experience is also there defining the journey
when we ask consumers, “What are the
most important influences on your purchase
decisions?” Among the top five influences cited
by consumers, referrals fueled by experience
(recommendations sought from or given by
friends and family) are ranked number one
and number two; number five is the in-store
experience itself (fig. 5).
Not surprisingly, experience is important to
brands – but there’s a gap between how good
corporate leaders think their experiences
are and how their customer rate their actual
performance. Bain & Company surveyed
customers of 362 companies. “Only 8% of them
described their experiences as superior, yet
80% of the companies surveyed believe that the
experience they have been providing is indeed
superior.”
From an 80% assumed superiority to 8% actual
delivery represents a big gap – and still another
reason for marketers to embrace the experience
journey model.
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Fig. 5
Most valuable sources of information for purchase
Source: Jack Morton research, 2012.
Global
Average
US Brazil China India
56 65 55 58 44
55 61 53 61 43
Friends and family from whom you sought opinions
Friends and family who volunteered their opinion
47 61 41 48 37
47 55 45 45 43
44 55 46 41 35
Research you conducted on the internet
Product reviews by experts (eg.g, in magazines, on Web)
In-store experience or media
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3 Brands getting experience right
The value to brands in
architecting consumer
experience journeys is clear.
The brands that succeed now
and in the future will be
brands that build relationships
at moments in time and
moments over time on the
basis of experience. We call
these experience brands. They
deliver more than a product or
service – they offer the shared
value of an experience.
Recent research shows that
people are more likely to
consider experience brands
over the competition. They
are more likely to recommend
them. And they will even pay
more for them .
Experience brands consider
and plan for the total consumer
experience – from stimulus to
consideration to purchase and
use. They don’t view tactics
in isolation but rather as part
of journey that is organized
and based on macro consumer
insights, macro technology
changes and the belief in a
“new journey for a new age”.
So what are some examples of
experience brands? Here are
three of our favorites :
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6
8. /8The Experience Journey
Coke.
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Ranked by many as the world’s most valuable
brand, in recent years Coke’s marketers have
led a brand renaissance that’s built around
a simple, inspiring promise – happiness –
which is played out across the experience
journey. Is it possible not to love its award-
winning experiences – such as its Happiness
Machines, or its partnership with Google to
re-create its landmark 1970s “I’d Like to Buy
the World a Coke” anthem in a new, digital
form? Also noteworthy: its “content 2020”
content marketing strategy includes not just a
compelling vision (“liquid and linked”) but also
clear priorities about the allocation of resources
and priorities.
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GoPro.
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Experience brands understand that brands
are verbs and that doing is ultimately more
impressive than telling. That’s so true of GoPro:
the brand for wearable and helmet cameras
solicits content from customers doing what its
products celebrate – having adventures – and
uses that content as its marketing. Rather than
telling people about what they can do with
its products, it shows them what using their
products could look like – and it extends this
strategy across the experience journey. GoPro
is an exemplar of search – an area that many
brands neglect.
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Red Bull.
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The most successful experience brands start
off by finding unmet consumer needs and then
innovating experiences and products to fill
those needs. Red Bull did that almost 30 years
ago by innovating the energy drink category
itself. Its promise – Red Bull Gives You Wings
– is a higher-level aspiration that’s borne out
at every conceivable touchpoint along its
experience journey: from the annual Flug Tag
to Red Bull Racing and other sponsorships, from
one-off stunts like the Red Bull Stratos mission
to the edge of space to the brand’s consistently
significant investment in experience-
based marketing.
11. /11The Experience Journey
Mapping experience journeys
Brands don’t become experience brands by
accident: they get there by planning.
Planning isn’t just figuring out what to do when.
It’s about the context and connection across
brand experiences. If those experiences exist in
isolation, consumers can become confused and
fall through the cracks.
That’s why we work with clients to concept,
plan and execute brand experiences within the
experience journey framework.
What that looks like varies dramatically by
sector and situation. For example, an experience
journey for a fast food brand (fig. 6) has a much
shorter time frame, fewer competing brands
and a smaller incidence of sharing than an
experience journey in the automotive
industry (fig. 7).
Stimulus
4 Brands
Consideration
10 Brands
Use
SHARING PATH
LOYALTY LOOP
Time - 1 Year
CompetitiveSet
Fig. 7
Experience Journey: automotive industry
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Stimulus
5 Brands
Consideration
2 Brands
Use
SHARING PATH
LOYALTY LOOP
Time - 1 Hour
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Fig. 6
Experience Journey: fast food industry
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12. /12Best Experience Brands 2013
That’s the vision; getting there will require a
great experience journey map and strong
agency partners to travel that journey
with them.
Craig Millon is SVP of Digital & Shopper
Marketing at Jack Morton Worldwide.
We’ve developed the work of mapping the
experience journey into a four-step process,
for which we use a simple schema that maps
the experience journey alongside consumer
disciplines (such as live, retail and digital). The
four steps are:
1. Audit each tactical activity and its primary
purpose(s) and intended result(s).
2. Review and map each tactical activity,
associated purpose and intended result.
3. Identify the communication gaps / breaks
along the purchase journey. These can
be tactical gaps (offer), messaging gaps
(consistency) or discipline gaps (digital).
4. Propose solutions that assist consumers in a
seamless Experience Journey.
What does the output look like? That depends
on the brand, of course. But the goal is always
the same: leverage the power of experience
thinking to build relationships with consumers
and claim an advantage in the market. In
the experience journey model, brands win at
moments in time and moments over time – by
creating rich, technology-enhanced brand
experiences that keep consumers engaged
by the brand.
Footnotes
1. David Court, Dave Elzinga, Susan Mulder and Ole Jorgen
Vetvik, The Consumer Decision Journey, McKinsey & Company,
2009.
2. Jim Lecinski, ZMOT: Winning The Zero Moment of Truth,
Google, 2009.
3. Josh McCall and Liz Bigham, New Realities 2012: Consumer
Research from Jack Morton Worldwide, Jack Morton Worldwide,
2012.
4. Christopher Meyer and Andre Schwager, “Understanding
Customer Experience,” Harvard Business Review, February 2007.
5. Josh McCall and Liz Bigham,
Best Experience Brands 2013: A Global Study by Jack Morton
Worldwide, Jack Morton Worldwide, 2013.
6. Full disclosure: none of these brands are clients. We’re just fans
of their discipline as experience brands.