Omnichannel Marketing: Driving Customer Value & Business Growth

Build and execute a go-to-market plan using omnichannel marketing techniques

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6 weeks, online
4–6 hours per week

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The Secret to Driving Customer Lifetime Value (CLV), Loyalty, and Engagement

Today’s marketing strategies must deliver a customer experience that is seamless, relevant, and personalized. Adopting an omnichannel approach puts the customer at the center of the marketing universe and meets your customers wherever they are.

The benefits of an omnichannel approach include improved engagement; higher purchase rate and greater spend; consistent brand identity; and better data.

9.5%

Estimated annual increase in customer engagement for brands using omnichannel strategies

Source: Ernst & Young

59%

respondents said they would choose an organization that offers a seamless shopping experience

Source: Revechat

Key Takeaways

Through this program, you will discover how implementing a comprehensive omnichannel marketing strategy can deliver value for your organization in the form of higher conversion rates, return on investment, customer lifetime value(CLV), and loyalty.

Specifically, you will:

  • Learn what omnichannel marketing offers over a conventional single-channel or multichannel approach.
  • Examine the role that technology plays in an omnichannel strategy, including customer data platforms, designed specifically to stitch online and offline touchpoints together and provide a cohesive view of each customer.
  • Design a blueprint for omnichannel marketing campaigns, control the distribution of your products more effectively, and make them accessible to your customers.
  • Leverage marketing concepts such as targeting, customer lifetime value(CLV), positioning statements, and customer journey maps to sharpen your omnichannel strategy.
  • Explore how an omnichannel brand manages relationships with different types of wholesalers and retailers, and identify the best measurement tactics to help optimize your strategy.
  • Understand the nuances of channel relationships, including legal and private label considerations, to design a channel ecosystem that prioritizes the channels that work best for your brand.

Who Is This Program For?

This program provides professionals with the frameworks and tools to develop an omnichannel strategy that embraces the modern customer experience journey. The program will be particularly beneficial for:

  • Early-career marketing and sales managers, including those professionals transitioning from adjacent fields such as customer service, sales, production, finance, or product development, who want to hit the ground running and drive impact using the most cutting-edge techniques.
  • Entrepreneurs, business owners, and business leaders in both B2B and B2C environments who want to build on current marketing efforts to improve customer acquisition and retention, harness new customer insights, and secure a more competitive position in the marketplace.

Program Experience

Personalized Marketing Blueprint

Innovative Platforms

Insights from Pioneers in the Field

Try-It Activities

Individualized Feedback

Thought-Provoking Faculty Lectures

Knowledge Checks

Industry Examples

Capstone Project

Program Modules

Using a practical approach, the program first imparts an understanding of what being omnichannel means. A more hands-on experience follows, giving participants the opportunity to apply tools and techniques to bring their omnichannel strategy to life.

Module 1:

What is Omnichannel Marketing?

  • Explore omnichannel marketing’s fundamentals to understand what sets it apart.
  • Understand the critical role it plays in the customer journey.
  • Discover what it takes to create and deliver a successful omnichannel experience.

Module 2:

Review of Marketing Fundamentals for Omnichannel

  • Discuss the evolution of the marketer, and survey the essential tools and methods you can use to understand your audience.
  • Learn to craft a positioning statement, build a customer journey, and design its execution.

Module 3:

Channel Fundamentals

  • Learn the fundamentals of a channel system and how to measure its success.
  • Gain deeper insights into the dynamics of power and conflict.
  • This module includes a conversation with Alicia Waters, CMO of Crate & Barrel, about knowing your customer, conflict resolution, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs).

Module 4:

Defining Your Plan: Your Go-to-Market Channel Options—Retail and Wholesale

  • Develop a deeper understanding of the different types of retailers and how to choose the best fit for your audience.
  • Gain insights into buyer dynamics as well as legal and private label considerations.
  • This module includes a guest appearance by Andy Hoar, founder of Paradigm B2B, who shares his perspective on the role of wholesalers and distributors and how to manage direct customer relationships and channel routes with intermediaries.

Module 5:

Defining Your Plan: Your Go-to-Market Channel Options—Direct, Marketplaces, and Emerging

  • Deep dive into the different channel options and weigh their advantages and drawbacks.
  • Then put your knowledge to work by creating a channel map for a business case.
  • This module includes an interview with Emily Culp, CEO of Cover FX, who shares innovative go-to-market routes and options for determining an omnichannel strategy.

Module 6:

Bringing Your Blueprint to Life: Technology to Power Your Plan

  • Survey the technology needed to power an omnichannel system.
  • Understand the benefits and challenges that accompany the use of a customer data platform.
  • Merge your blueprint with your technology plan in a capstone project to set your omnichannel strategy in motion.
  • This module includes a dialogue with Rick Erwin, CEO of Adstra, about the importance and risk of identity within an omnichannel go-to-market strategy.

Module 1:

What is Omnichannel Marketing?

  • Explore omnichannel marketing’s fundamentals to understand what sets it apart.
  • Understand the critical role it plays in the customer journey.
  • Discover what it takes to create and deliver a successful omnichannel experience.

Module 4:

Defining Your Plan: Your Go-to-Market Channel Options—Retail and Wholesale

  • Develop a deeper understanding of the different types of retailers and how to choose the best fit for your audience.
  • Gain insights into buyer dynamics as well as legal and private label considerations.
  • This module includes a guest appearance by Andy Hoar, founder of Paradigm B2B, who shares his perspective on the role of wholesalers and distributors and how to manage direct customer relationships and channel routes with intermediaries.

Module 2:

Review of Marketing Fundamentals for Omnichannel

  • Discuss the evolution of the marketer, and survey the essential tools and methods you can use to understand your audience.
  • Learn to craft a positioning statement, build a customer journey, and design its execution.

Module 5:

Defining Your Plan: Your Go-to-Market Channel Options—Direct, Marketplaces, and Emerging

  • Deep dive into the different channel options and weigh their advantages and drawbacks.
  • Then put your knowledge to work by creating a channel map for a business case.
  • This module includes an interview with Emily Culp, CEO of Cover FX, who shares innovative go-to-market routes and options for determining an omnichannel strategy.

Module 3:

Channel Fundamentals

  • Learn the fundamentals of a channel system and how to measure its success.
  • Gain deeper insights into the dynamics of power and conflict.
  • This module includes a conversation with Alicia Waters, CMO of Crate & Barrel, about knowing your customer, conflict resolution, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs).

Module 6:

Bringing Your Blueprint to Life: Technology to Power Your Plan

  • Survey the technology needed to power an omnichannel system.
  • Understand the benefits and challenges that accompany the use of a customer data platform.
  • Merge your blueprint with your technology plan in a capstone project to set your omnichannel strategy in motion.
  • This module includes a dialogue with Rick Erwin, CEO of Adstra, about the importance and risk of identity within an omnichannel go-to-market strategy.
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Program Faculty

Experience learning like you never have before with faculty from Kellogg Executive Education.

Faculty Member Jim Lecinski

Jim Lecinski

Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing

Jim Lecinski is a marketing educator and advisor. His focus is marketing strategy and digital transformation. He has over 30 years of experience driving successful business results for major brands by developing and implementing integrated, omnichannel and digital marketing programs... More info

Faculty Member Julie Henness

Julie Hennessy

Clinical Professor of Marketing

Julie Hennessy is Clinical Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Her MBA and executive marketing teaching focuses on developing marketing strategies to enhance long-term competitive advantage and profitability. She often works with research and technology-driven firms in the new and mature product/service categories whose goal is to become more customer-centric... More info

Insights from Omnichannel Experts

Benefit from the knowledge of thought leaders from a variety of industries, each of whom offers a unique perspective that stems from their wealth of experience in omnichannel marketing. Whether you are a brand manager, a business leader, or a consultant, you will walk away with valuable insights you can immediately apply to your work.
Faculty Member Alicia Waters

Alicia Waters

President, Crate & Barrel and Crate & Kids; Brand Strategy Expert

Topic: Know your customer, conflict resolution, metrics, and KPIs

Relying on exceptional consumer insights, strategies, and an entrepreneurial spirit, global retail executive Alicia Waters specializes in driving online, retail, and mobile growth. Her 20+ years of expertise lie in brand strategy, merchandising, digital transformation, and collaborations—and includes leadership roles at CB2 and Crate & Kids.

Faculty Member Andy Hoar

Andy Hoar

Co-founder, Master B2B Ecommerce; Authority on B2B eCommerce Business and Strategy

Topic: The role of wholesalers and distributors, and how to manage direct customer relationships as well as channel routes with intermediaries.

Andy Hoar is one of the world’s principal experts on B2B eCommerce business and strategy. His work focuses on helping distributors and manufacturers—both Fortune 100 and leading B2B companies—digitize their direct and indirect selling initiatives. Andy is credited with developing the definitive work on B2B eCommerce, Forrester’s B2B eCommerce Playbook, which he authored during his time as a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research.

Faculty Member Emily Culp

Emily Culp

CEO, CMO; Board Member at Mizzen + Main, Stio & Cordial

Topic: Innovative go-to-market routes and options for determining an omnichannel strategy

Leveraging an innovative combination of digital and traditional marketing and product strategies, Emily Culp builds high-performance global teams, develops novel revenue streams, and implements new operational processes to achieve measurable revenue and results for consumer brands. She draws on her experience from worldwide agencies and client companies such as Estée Lauder and Rebecca Minkoff.

Faculty Member Rick Erwin

Rick Erwin

CEO, Adstra; Advocate for the Value of Data in the Global Economy

Topic: The importance and risk of identity within an omnichannel go-to-market strategy

Drawing on two decades of experience in marketing, Rick drives the strategy, growth, and profitability for Adstra’s industry-leading data and identity products and services. He is a leading voice in omnichannel marketing and an outspoken advocate for the value of data in the global economy. Rick has also served in numerous other executive and senior management roles with companies such as Acxiom, Experian, and RR Donnelley.

Industry Examples

Take an in-depth look at world-class brands that have put omnichannel marketing into action. Learn from pioneers, such as Alibaba, Best Buy, and Radio Flyer, to see what they did well.

Alibaba

Compare and contrast the Alibaba retailer–buyer experience to Amazon’s to understand the uniqueness of this platform.

Amazon

Learn how this online marketplace manages dual roles: retail host and retailer.

Logo of Best Buy

Best Buy

Explore how this consumer electronics retailer repurposed the vending machine as a distribution channel.

H&R Block

See how this player in the tax preparation industry transitioned marketing strategies.

Nike

Examine how the shoe retailer crafted an innovative positioning statement.

Radio Flyer

Understand how this manufacturer of ride-on toys determined where and how to sell a new product.

Note: All product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Their use does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.

Certificate

Certificate

Upon successful completion of the program, Kellogg Executive Education grants a verified digital certificate of completion to participants. This program is graded as a pass or fail; participants must receive 80% to pass and obtain the certificate of completion.

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After successful completion of the program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you in the name you used when registering for the program. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of Kellogg Executive Education.

NOTE: THIS ONLINE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM DOES NOT GRANT ACADEMIC CREDIT OR A DEGREE FROM KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT.

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