I just came back from hosting the CXPA’s Insight Exchange and talking all things customers. Of course, I tended to hang out in the customer journey mapping sessions. While the practice is maturing, there’s still a lot of room for improvement.
In the spirit of sharing best practices, we at Heart of the Customer put together our Top 10 Reasons that Journey Mapping Projects Fail, a la David Letterman.
Without further ado, let’s proceed!
http://customerthink.com/the-top-10-reasons-customer-journey-mapping-fails/
Infiniti Research, a world-renowned market intelligence solutions provider, has announced the completion of their latest list blog on the top five fundamental principles to build a strong customer experience.
Building an excellent customer experience is an important step toward success, regardless of the industry in which you operate. Organizations in different sectors are investing their money, time, and efforts into improving their customer experience management. Anything and everything a company does is to enhance the customer’s perception of the brand. Hence, customer experience management includes everything starting from the message you use, the products you sell, the sales process, and after-sale services. In this blog post, we’ll take you through the top five fundamental principles to build a strong customer experience.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180403005800/en/Top-Fundamental-Principles-Build-Strong-Customer-Experience/
Expresso Fashion and Claudia Sträter are two well-known Dutch fashion brands with stores in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Alongside their more traditional, brick-and-mortar shops, these labels are also sold online. This omni-channel strategy makes it possible for these two webshops to not only serve as sales channels but also platforms for inspiration. Visitors can get their inspiration online and then choose to do their shopping in the webshop or in-store. In other words, their online services are critical to the success of both on- and offline channels.
Let’s take a look at how they’ve experienced the Mopinion software thus far…
https://mopinion.com/expresso-fashion-claudia-strater-customer-story/
Improving the customer experience has become a key focus of all astute retailers. For providers of convenience services, much of the focus rests on integrating frictionless point-of-sale payment. Hence, one of the best-attended educational sessions at the recent National Automatic Merchandising Association show at the Las Vegas Convention Center focused on how payment technology innovations — namely mobile payments — are impacting customer expectations.
https://www.retailcustomerexperience.com/articles/mobile-payment-redefining-the-customer-experience-for-unattended-retail/
There are a lot of things that impact customer experience—employee engagement, the online customer journey, the in-store atmosphere, and more. One area that is often overlooked but that has a tremendous impact on customer experience is leadership development.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakemorgan/2018/04/03/how-leadership-development-impacts-customer-experience/
Businesses are often failing because they are not considering the customer journey. The best sales people provide an experience that informs and inspires a desire to purchase.
https://medium.com/swlh/4-ways-to-improve-customer-experience-more-sales-708fd1e2d191/
Many CX professionals currently assess customer experience through the lens of biased ‘service’, and are becoming “A man with a hammer”: Always adopting the “Serve Customers Better” approach to try to solve every CX problem their respective clients or companies face. The Conventional CX is just service-in-disguise. It’s merely an expanded version of ‘service’ or customer interaction management (CIM). It is not a Real CX.
http://customerthink.com/stop-practicing-the-conventional-customer-experience-management-part-4/
Companies are putting more and more effort into identifying and addressing the trials and tribulations customers encounter when interacting with them to create the best possible buying and use experience. Referred to as customer experience (and often abbreviated to CX), it’s inclusive of the customer’s journey from initial brand awareness to purchase, the customer’s interactions with the brand’s many touchpoints prior to and during use, and the environments the customer encounters during use of and interaction with the product or service. Brands find the greatest success and differentiate themselves from competitors by focusing on delivering an effortless experience that ensures each of those touchpoints and experiences are consistent and contribute positively to the customer’s overall journey.
https://www.business2community.com/customer-experience/improving-customer-experience-takes-behind-scenes-work-02033319/
A modern business understands the importance of offering a seamless customer experience. However, consumers tend to be more demanding nowadays. This brings out the challenge of optimizing your customer journey to ensure that you’re offering a successful multi-channel approach.
A successfully optimized customer journey can help your company meet the customers’ demands and meet the key objectives. This can only be achieved by having multiple teams working towards the same goal.
https://www.clickz.com/bring-marketing-sales-together-optimize-customer-experience/213687/
You develop a relationship with a customer during their path to purchase, but do you lose track of them after they buy? Contributor Davor Sutija offers tips to keep the conversation going.
https://marketingland.com/brands-can-engage-customers-checkout-236218/
