Recent Studies show that 60% of the general public would be more apt to share online if they had control over who viewed their opinions. The trend for consumers to become more privatized in their online behavior represents the next revolution in internet and social media marketing and creates the need for a shift in focus and tactics. This panel will examine emerging social and mobile filtering experiences, and the opportunities they bring for brands. Addressing how marketers can move beyond “Likes” and “ Follows” to create more intimate dialogs and understand the private conversations happening around their content.
Neuroscience, “how consumers actually think,” rapidly expanded its impact in the marketing decision-making process. The ARF Neurostandards Project led a groundbreaking charge to understand the science behind neurological and biometric advertising research. Leading marketers American Express, Campbell’s, Hershey’s, Colgate, GM, MillerCoors, and others participated in this study. In this session, we’ll present the insights of this landmark study and help you determine how, when, and why to employ Neuromarketing methods. Anybody interested in improving advertising effectiveness should attend. We’re confident this session will help you understand the opportunities and challenges to this promising new field.
New research from social scientists and behavioral economists proves that people rely on automatic, reflexive behaviors -- hardwired shortcuts -- when making decisions, including decisions about what marketing messages to consume and what products to buy. Unaware of these shortcuts, people will attribute their actions to some other reason. (See recent best sellers like Predictably Irrational, Nudge, How We Decide, etc.) Find out how to uncover the hidden, emotional drivers of behavior that traditional market research cannot access. And, equally important, discover how to trigger or prompt these "automatic actions" to gain the behavior you seek from your target market.
Consumers thirst for real-time information and brand engagement to inform purchase decisions. And the savvy Social Business that satisfies that desire for instant gratification and provides the content customers need to make those decisions will reap the benefits. Despite this fact, many companies fail to recognize the power of their greatest and most scalable asset – their employees. Learn how IBM is educating and activating employees to serve as social media brand ambassadors, the resulting business impact, and how B2B/B2C organizations can develop programs to provide value to target audiences, increase the quality of customer touchpoints and build brand advocacy.
Today's largest brands have customers across the globe: customers who speak different languages, use technology differently, and don't always share the same tastes in content. Because of this, the future of a brand's social media presence must be as global and dynamic as the consumers it strives to connect with. In this session we will learn ways in which brands are truly succeeding on a global social stage.
