The Fallacy Of Persuasion
By Leslie Zane
The conscious persuasion model employed by marketers can actually alienate consumers.
A Best-Practice Video Series on Context, Commerce and Engaging With an Audience of One
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But marketing to an audience of one—in a sea of unique and diverse customers and prospects—has proven to be no easy feat. Furthermore, each customer has taken control of their own journey, independently mapping their own path to purchase and often turning away from the intentional campaign markers set up to speed them along the path.
The CMO Council interviewed leading marketers around the world to gather their best practices for engagement, experience and advancing the relationship with this audience of one. Through this two-part video series, we investigated the best actions developed by these leaders, from the vision of their customer engagement strategy to their goals for advancing the experience into the future.
In today’s age of the customer, the focus has turned away from what a brand can do to induce action and toward a far more complex and strategic dialogue around how our marketing, service and commerce strategies have aligned around the customer journey. As the days of pushing a customer through an archaic funnel have long since gone away, marketers have developed more comprehensive strategies to advance engagements by combining rich content and experiences with context, relevance and personalization.