A Method for the Construction of Customer Behavioral Modeling Knowledge for B2B Event Marketing Strategy

Collaborating offline event marketing and online marketing is considered a relatively novel marketing activity for many of the enterprise software companies. In contrast to conventional communication strategies, event marketing features the active and physical participation of limited customers in marketing communication process and online marketing features to expand event awareness to wide range of customers. For both of customers, the companies often have the marketing event to improve software and service awareness in enterprise B2B Software industry. Improving the number of the event attendees is equal to improving the software and service awareness. Therefore, it is required target number of event registration through the website and actual attendance of both new logo customer and existing customers who recently owns or has experiences to use software before. It requires to show the right session to the right customers at the marketing event and website because each user has each different motivation, business scheme, business model, and own role and responsibility. In this study, we could figure out several differences of customer behavior at the marketing event and effectiveness of business impact after the event between 2 segmented customers, such as invited customers and non-invited customers.