Synchronise your touch points or loose buyers on their journey.
By danmac30 | Branding, Content Marketing, customer centric marketing, Customer experience, Small Business Marketing | No Comments
It is not sufficient to try one tactic and expect a campaign to work well. It usually takes a number of touch points for a customer to be nurtured, trust you and try what you have to offer. It is not like we want to get married on the first date, is it? Well, rarely anyway, and buying something whether it is health insurance, or a new chair, is no difference. Today,the conversation with our customers and prospects, never ends.
A truly great marketing strategy leverages the appropriate marketing tactics in combination that is right for the intended buyer are well synchronised. Most businesses take a fragmented approach to marketing channels. This is becoming every more noticeable with new platforms entering the mix including mobile, apps, SEO, PPC, Social media like Pinterest and more.
In CRM, the focus is the technology organising and automating relationships with customers and prospective customers.It often has a focus upon efficiency rather than upon the customer experience.
Integrated marketing combines three elements that are closely related to service design; an understanding of consumer behaviour, focus upon brand and the link to customer experience. Integrated marketing takes a holistic view of services, in which coordination of touch-points is one major part of linking what is termed contact experiences to the brand:
As a savvy marketer, you need to be able to understand the behaviour of your audience to pick the right mix of tactics and use them at the right time. It takes excellent strategic skills and the ability to translate your marketing into the right messaging to each your target audience. All the data can be found out there but you need to understand it, analyse it and use it! More than this, it takes an empathy for customer buying behaviour that is often missing to ensure that the mix of touch points are appropriate. You need an inside out approach or customer centricity.
To own the buyers journey, we need to have a manageable set of critical touch points that allows us to focus and have a better impact on our customers perceptions. These touch points need to be distinctive, well conceived and synchronised. We need to break down the customer experience into distinct moments from the customers point of view according to AmicusBA whitepaper
Customers’ most urgent needs, insecurities, expectations upon a an approach point?
What transactions and interactions take place?
How should touch-points draw people in?
What products and services, enhancements speak to a customer segments aspirations, motivations and captures your customers attention?
What information is captured?
What knowledge is used and what is shared across other touch points?