The challenge marketers for brands and small businesses face is taking this understanding of unpredictable, online and offline behaviors and crafting sophisticated campaigns and strategies that are suited for a particular industry, product, service, location, advertiser, etc. The great thing is, there are so many touchpoints on the path to purchase that marketers have multiple opportunities to be noticed and at the very least considered.
In a recent blog post on Think with Google, the company shared samples of purchase paths for makeup, headphones, flights and candy. According to the post, the number of “touchpoints” Google identified for each journey ranged between 20+ (candy bar) and 500+ (flights).
