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Do I Belong? How Brands Build Community
Friday, November 17, 2023
McNamara Alumni Center
200 SE Oak St, Minneapolis
Top academic researchers and industry experts from leading brands for the most impactful 8 hours
Belonging Is the Essence of Marketing
It’s the sense of connection a consumer feels with a brand, an employee feels with their employer, a member feels with their organization, or a subscriber feels with their provider.
What connects the parties? What values do they share and how do their interactions result in individuals feeling a true sense of belonging to a brand?
We’ll explore these questions and how an increased desire to connect and belong has influenced marketing and transformed marketing research.
Come away with new ideas and a richer understanding of how to build belonging and community in your brand.
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With over 300 in-person attendees, as well as a national online audience, the Ignite Conference sparks creative ideas around current industry topics to help marketing practitioners keep pace with today's dynamic trends. Ignite fuses the distinct marketing perspective of some of the country’s leading business scholars with those of corporate leaders from premier global companies.
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