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CX Journey™ Musings: The Problem with Journey Maps - FutureLab

CX Journey™ Musings: The Problem with Journey Maps - FutureLab | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
There's a time and place for mapping the stages; it's appropriate for your marketing and sales teams, as they work together to understand the buyer funnel and customer lifecycle stages, to help them understand and identify where prospects or customers are in the relationship with the company so that they can better target communications, marketing campaigns, or sales pitches based on wants and needs at each stage.

Mapping stages may also be appropriate as you think about the high-level customer relationship and where to begin journey mapping. But as a customer experience professional, mapping at that level is, well, useless. It's too high level to be able to help the organization understand the customer experience, how employees impact it, or to effect change that is meaningful to the customer experience.

Think of the customer journey not as stages but as steps; by definition, when you are mapping, you are walking in your customer's shoes... shoes take steps, not stages.
Marteq's insight:

Customer Experience does not equal Buyer's Journey.

 

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Do Companies Understand the Customer Journey? - eMarketer

Do Companies Understand the Customer Journey? - eMarketer | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
Many aren’t confident of their company’s understanding of big data either
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I'd say the answer is no.

 

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What Is a Marketing-Driven Customer Experience Map? - Kapost

What Is a Marketing-Driven Customer Experience Map? - Kapost | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it

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Marteq's insight:

The best approach I've seen that shakes up the buyer's journey.

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There is a secret to better CX metrics: Journey mapping - Forrester

There is a secret to better CX metrics: Journey mapping - Forrester | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
There is a way to better identify and share customer experience (CX) metrics. And it is a tool that your company – like many others may already be using… but not for that purpose. I am talking about journey mapping. Recently I have done more and more workshops for our clients on how to use journey mapping for defining CX metrics so I wanted to put that thinking into a new report for all clients to read.

Why journey mapping? It helps overcome some of the key challenges for CX measurement programs: Only if you understand the end-to-end journey your customers take for accomplishing a goal are you likely to have the right metrics in place to judge CX performance. If you don't understand the journeys, you'll rush to judgment with ill-timed surveys, miss important moments of truth and fail to align operational data with customer perceptions. That means you’ll fail to identify ways to improve critical touchpoints. 


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Marteq's insight:

Isn't this a basic? Unfortunately, no. When companies are smack in the middle of the tornado (e.g., marketing automation vendors), there's no time. And that's probably the best time: more clients, more revenue flowing in, earmark some of the revenue towards CX.

Nicolas Petitjean's curator insight, March 11, 2017 4:12 AM

Isn't this a basic? Unfortunately, no. When companies are smack in the middle of the tornado (e.g., marketing automation vendors), there's no time. And that's probably the best time: more clients, more revenue flowing in, earmark some of the revenue towards CX.

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18 Reasons to Map Customer Journeys - FutureLab

18 Reasons to Map Customer Journeys - FutureLab | The MarTech Digest | Scoop.it
Have you started journey mapping yet? Or are you still wondering why it's an important tool to have in your customer experience management toolbox?


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Marteq's insight:

Strange not to specifically see the role this plays in the content marketing strategy.

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