2007 B-to-B Conference: B-to-B Brand Drives B-to-B Demand

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Conference Description

In many cases the role of branding is an underutilized resource in business-to-business marketing. The unique challenges of b-to-b marketing include more complex and expensive products, longer sales/repurchase cycles, multiple target audiences, and greater difficulty measuring marketing ROI. Meanwhile, b-to-b accounts are often not "glamorous" to agencies, and integrated marketing is done to a lesser extent for b-to-b brands.

Dates & Times

Starts:  August, 2007
Ends:  August, 2007

Venue/Location

The Mid-America Club
200 E. Randolph Drive
80th Floor
Chicago, IL 60601

ANA has negotiated a special room rate of $289 at The Fairmont Chicago www.fairmont.com/chicago (you must ask for the ANA room block).
The reservation cut off date is July 24, 2007, after which the prevailing rates will apply.
Please call (800) 526-2008 to make reservations.

Agenda

SAVE THE DATE FOR 2008: The Business to Business Conference will be held in April 2008 in San Jose, CA
7:45am 

 Breakfast

8:45am  General Session
 

Opening Remarks
Bob Liodice
President and CEO
ANA

Program Chair
Dawn DiMartino
Vice President, Marketing Programs and Analytics
Iron Mountain Incorporated
Chair, ANA Business-to-Business Marketing Committee

TEN B-TO-B ISSUES IN 50 BRAND-BUILDING MINUTES
The role of branding is often an underutilized resource in business-to-business marketing. This rapid-fire session will explore ways to use brand building as a powerful tool to stimulate demand and lead generation, while driving revenue.  The issues are:

1. Integrated marketing communications
2. Multiple decision makers
3. The marketing and sales relationship
4. Customer satisfaction and loyalty
5. Account-based marketing
6. Customer advisory councils
7. Internal branding (brand engaged employees)
8. Moving into new markets
9. Alliances and partnerships
10. ROI

Moderator
Dawn DiMartino
Vice President, Marketing Programs and Analytics
Iron Mountain Incorporated
Chair, ANA Business-to-Business Marketing Committee

Panelists
John F. Favalo
Managing Partner
Eric Mower and Associates
Immediate Past Chairman of BMA International

Fritz Johnston 
Director,  Brand Management & Advertising
The Boeing Company

Ralph Oliva
Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM) Professor of Marketing, Smeal College of Business
The Pennsylvania State University

Richard A. Segal Jr.
Chief Executive
HSR Business to Business

HARNESSING THE POWER OF NEW MEDIA PLATFORMS
Be the first to learn how your peers are navigating the explosion in new media platforms to drive demand.  The debut of this exclusive survey, conducted by the ANA and B-to-B Magazine in partnership with Guideline, a business research and advisory services provider, will explore the use of search, social networks, user-generated content, podcasts, blogging, and more. This survey will address issues including b-to-b marketers' usage of new media platforms, spending, measurement/ROI, resource allocation, and integration with other elements of the communications mix.

Moderator
Frank Dudley
Vice President of Marketing
Guideline Research Corporation

Panelists
Barbara Basney
Director, Global Advertising
Xerox Corporation

Ellis Booker
Editor
B-to-B Magazine

Jeremi Karnell
Founding Partner, President
One to One Interactive

CONQUERING THE COMPLEX THROUGH SIMPLICITY: THE UPS APPROACH TO B-TO-B BRAND BUILDING
What can brown do for you?-probably more than you realize. UPS is a giant company doing amazing things. Having invested billions of dollars in its infrastructure and technology, it's geared to help any business, regardless of size, run smoothly. So, how do you make those complex operations feel seamless and simple to customers? UPS and The Martin Agency will discuss how they created and launched an integrated marketing campaign in the B-to-B environment built upon one simple visual-a whiteboard and brown marker.

Andy Azula
Senior Vice President and Creative Director
The Martin Agency

Betsy Wilson
U.S. Advertising and Global Media Manager
UPS

Q&A Session
Bill Duggan
Executive Vice President
ANA

IS IT SALES VERSUS MARKETING ... OR SALES AND MARKETING?
In many companies sales and marketing feud with disastrous results, and this overall lack of alignment hurts corporate performance. This session will outline the substantial positive impact that results when sales and marketing are in sync and the steps that can be taken to get there. Using case histories that reveal compelling stories of success and disaster, best practices will be identified that can help you and your team enhance the joint performance and overall contributions of these two functions.

Moderator
Laura Patterson
President
VisionEdge Marketing, Inc.

Panelists
Paul Gerrard
Director of Marketing
Humana Inc.

Linda McGovern
Director, Marketing Comm. & Global Brand Strategy
USG Corporation

Scott Worthem
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Addressable Media
Experian Marketing Services

1:00 pm Luncheon Sponsored By Google

AVAYA'S APPROACH TO B-TO-B BRAND BUILDING
 Avaya VP of North America Marketing Steve Sayre will discuss how Avaya connects with customers in a crowded field of business communications providers, several of which have much deeper pockets. He'll discuss measuring the marketing mix and how Avaya uses the Web to drive demand. Avaya communications software and equipment can be found in more than one million businesses worldwide, including more than 90 percent of the Fortune 500.  

Steve Sayre
Vice President of North America Marketing
Avaya Inc.

Q&A Session
Bob Liodice
President and CEO
ANA

IN THE END, IT'S ALL ABOUT SALES
To close the conference with ideas you can implement tomorrow, meet veteran marketers who have increased business with new approaches to selling. Our speakers represent a Fortune 250 b-to-b marketer ( Aon Corporation ) and a privately held newcomer named one of Inc. Magazine's "fastest growing"companies (DriveCam, a risk management company that improves driver behavior and assesses liability in collisions) as well as the founder of a Public Relations firm recognized as "Best Agency" by the American Business Awards, who also moonlights as an author of business books.

Moderator
Kathy Cripps
President
Council of Public Relations Firms

Panelists
Philip B. Clement
Global Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
Aon Corporation

Steve Cody
Founder
Peppercom, Inc.
Author, What's Keeping Your Customers Up at Night? Close More Deals by Selling to Your Client's Pain

Kathleen Glass
Director, Marketing
DriveCam, Inc. (a driver risk management company) 

 4:00pm  Adjournment
   



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