bridgette sanchez
05. Feb 2017 05:46 Uhr
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Let´s go on a journey ....

Again, we will be putting ourselves in the customer´s shoes and how marketing communication looks from their point of view


Step 1: Who is the customer? (Chose 1 option)

  • OPTION #1.A CUSTOMER OF YOUR´S In case you are working for a company (and even have personas to choose from) - you might wanna go with a specific customer you are marketing to

  • OPTION #2. YOU - in case you don´t have a customer you can refer to, just take yourself and look at a purchase you made (that wasn’t an impulse purchase)


Sidenote: For those of you who have a B2B customer, make sure to differentiate between the buyer and the user resp. just pick one. Though make sure to write down the interdependences - between the different parties involved - that might come up along the way.


Step 2 : Choose a customer journey map

You can take ours (see next subchapter) or a different map (that you found in the additional materials section of chapter 4.2, like in this article that lists different customer journey maps) - if it seems more appropriate to your situation or business. Yet, remember that any map is just a starting point and you will probably ned to adapt it to your needs.

No matter which map you choose you first wanna look at the different stages of the buying process (in the horizontal axis), second you wanna look at the vertical axis (in our case: The critical elements).

Step 3: Since we can´t upload a paper, you might wanna solve the „matrix issue“ like this (we take our map as an example):

  1. Awareness phase
    A) Feelings, thoughts and actions:
    B) Triggers & Influencers:
    C) Touchpoints (offline & online):
    D) Customer experience:
    E) Opportunities:

  2. Research phase
    A) Feelings, thoughts and actions:
    B) Triggers & Influencers:
    .....

  3. Purchase
    ....

  4. Usage
    ....

  5. Repeat purchases
    ....

  6. Refers new customers


PS: You might encounter the „problem“, that you can´t always fill in all the „boxes“ of the matrix/ map or you are unsure about the stage of the customer. And probably other issues that are unique to your situation.

That´s ok, because we are creating a theoretical model (our best educated guess) that can evolve over time. But it might also indicate that you missed to identify a critical step in the journey or critical elements that are vital to your business/ situation but are not part of your map yet.

And keep in mind WHY we are doing this: It´s to get familiar with the practice itself, which in the end is thinking from the customer´s perspective. Which is, of course, easier when you are the customer yourself
(By the way: You might be surprised by the analysis of your own behavior since we usually don´t think abut it.)

The Customer Journey!

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  1. I work for a company in which I consider our personas (end-user) to be the learner, the DIY'er and the Creative. Therefore, we have different approach to reach to each one of these personas. Out of the three, the learner is my customer. The millennial who is looking to mount a pining on a wall and does not know which tools to use. Therefore, he/she looks for family/friends advise or search engines.

2 & 3

a. Awareness/Feelings, thoughts and actions: Our learner needs to mount a painting on the wall and does not know which tools to use or how to do it.

b. Research/Triggers and influencers: Our learner goes to friends and family advise or a search engine to see how to do the tasks and find the type of tools he/she needs to buy

c. Research/Touchpoints (Online &Offline): Our learner saw a video with the link to a website which sells the tools he/she needs to mount the painting on the wall.

d. Purchase/Touchpoinst: Our learner found a promotion on the website and he is ready to buy the tools he needs.

e. Usage/Customer experience: our learner receive the tools and use the tools mounting the painting on the wall. However, two scenarios can occur:

  1. The tool broke and he is very disappointed.
  2. The tool was easy to use and good quality.

Based on the above scenarios,

f. Repeat Purchase/Customer experience: Our learner decides to continue buying more tools from our brand because of scenario number 2.

g. Refers New Customers/Opportunities: Our learner told his friends about our brand and its quality, and he rated our product on our social media channels.

Kommentare

Jürgen Seitz (instructor)
vor etwa 7 Jahre

Thanks for sharing! It seems as if how-to´s and recommendations are critical to your persona. I assume you are providing how-to´s. Would be interesting to hear whether you are also working with influencers in this regard and whether you are actively asking your customers to rate your products and integrate them in similiar ways as you might do influencers?

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