Bridget
Heaton
Senior Manager, Customer Marketing
Slack
Bridget Heaton is a marketer who found her niche in customer marketing and in building and scaling communities. She started her career in international education helping to administer ECA exchange programs and found early success there in events, social media marketing, and promoting advocacy amongst program participants. Bridget moved into marketing in education technology at Schoology. There, she started customer marketing and built the community, starting with 19 members and scaling it to 100 and then 4,000 educators. After, she joined Collibra, where she built the customer marketing function and launched their Data Citizens community, reaching 6,000 members in just 1 year. Currently, she is a Customer Marketing Lead at Slack focused on building the enterprise customer marketing program. Bridget holds a Bachelor's degree in Global Studies and French from St. Lawrence University.
07 December 2023 16:30 - 17:15
Panel: Turning Your Colleagues Into Champions for Customer Marketing
As a customer marketer, how often have you sat in a meeting, heard someone from another department mention a pain point, and thought to yourself, "customer marketing can help with that?". All the time? Same! A stellar customer marketing program can be the secret ingredient to maximizing the lifetime value of your customers - but how do you get the stakeholder buy-in necessary to get a seat at the table? Before focusing on turning your customers into champions for your product, you need to turn your colleagues into champions for customer marketing. This session is for customer marketers building out a brand new program, as well as customer marketers who are continuing to grow an established program. In this session, you’ll learn: 1. How to continually communicate the success and value of customer marketing across an organization 2. How to advocate for customer marketing to get a seat at the table - and keep that seat! 3. How to ensure that customer marketing is a department that the rest of your colleagues LOVE working with and don’t want to do their jobs without