Customer experience (CX) is more than how you engage with your customers; it’s also how your customers feel about your brand.
Here are some tips for creating an effective customer experience strategy that gets customers excited about working with you.
Get to know your customers—really get to know them. Understand what motivates their purchasing decisions and makes them loyal to your brand and personalize your customer experience to put those elements front and center.
“Developing personas based on your audience will help you better understand the customer psyche and build experiences tailored to key segments,” said Barry Nolan, chief strategy officer at Swrve. “Once you fully understand your customers, you can start mapping the customer journey based on how they interact with your business.”
As part of this, it’s also important to learn about your customers’ goals. Kerry Cunningham, 6sense Research and Thought Leadership, recommends that you get an understanding of customers’ success criteria. "Ask yourself, 'What does the customer need to be able to say about using your solution for them to become an advocate?'”
Delivering positive customer experiences is a worthy goal for any organization. But how do you know what that really means for your business?
Once you fully understand your customers, work to align their goals with your own. “Revisit your business mission, values, objectives, and processes,” said Nolan. “A successful CX strategy needs to closely align with the entire business ecosystem.”
Meeting your customers’ needs may also mean helping them find the information they need as they grow their relationship with you. According to Helen Baptist, COO at PathFactory, “Enabling customers to easily find the right content at the right time in the customer journey should be a key priority of any CX strategy along with content intelligence to measure customer engagement and intent to buy more from your business.”
Customer experience doesn’t happen in a silo—so neither should the process of building a strategy.
To create a truly connected customer experience, make sure everyone in your organization who contributes to customer touchpoints—including marketing, sales, commerce, and service—is on board and aligned to the same goals and objectives.
A strong strategy includes processes that help you enhance the customer experience throughout the customer lifecycle.
According to Randy Frisch, chief evangelist at Uberflip, “The three pillars of customer experience strategy—identify/attract/engage—are an amazing framework, both from a process perspective as well as the technology that drops into these buckets.”
You’ve put the processes in place, now make sure you have what it takes to support them. Not sure where to start?
Creating an effective customer experience strategy is within reach when you understand your customers, align your business objectives to their needs, and work with key stakeholders across your organization. Having the right processes in place, as well as the tools and systems to support them, will help you ensure a seamless, positive customer experience.
Whether you’re focused on B2B, B2C, or a combination of the two, learn how Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience can help you set your strategy in motion.
Then, watch this brief overview for tips on how to make every customer interaction matter and exceed customer experience expectations.
Beth Perry is a Senior Content Marketing Manager for Oracle Advertising and CX.
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