Education Services Group

JANUARY 5, 2022

They may sound the same, but customer journey maps are different from touchpoint maps (also known as service blueprints). If you haven’t yet read our deep dive on what makes each of these tools unique and how Customer Success organizations can leverage both customer journey maps and touchpoint maps for results, I recommend giving it a read.

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CX Journey

JULY 7, 2015

Today's post is a modified version of a post I originally published on Touchpoint Dashboard on February 4, 2015. One of the arguments against journey mapping I often hear is that it's an exercise in futility: You map. as well as touchpoint data, customer data, and customer feedback. You put it on the wall. And nothing changes.

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BirdEye

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A complete guide to creating rewarding interactions and experiences that delight through customer messaging. Table of contents asdasd asd h3 Decide Delight Customer interactions and customer experience: How are they linked? The communication between business and customer is described as customer interactions.

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ModSquad

JUNE 25, 2019

Customer touchpoints are the points of contact between your brand and your customers. These crucial points of interaction provide companies with the opportunity to engage consumers, strengthen brand storytelling and awareness , market products and services, and address concerns before they grow large enough to prevent sales.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 20, 2021

The good news is that if you haven’t done it yet, you don’t need to get to the level of detail you normally would for this exercise. What you need is a bullet point list of all the places customers interact with you. Make a list of these touchpoints. This is the type of exercise that is not a “one and done.” Start there.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Customer experience, also known as CX, is a customer’s overall experience when interacting with an institution’s products or services and their perception of the business and its values. Customers typically engage with your brand on different touchpoints. What is Customer Experience in the Financial Industry?

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Kerry Bodine

AUGUST 14, 2020

For the Shop sub-journey, a micro-journey during the time of COVID-19 might be “Get into the store,” which includes actions like waiting in line, putting on a mask, using hand sanitizer, and interacting with a store employee in order to get a cart or basket. (At Like exercising, doing something (anything!)

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PeopleMetrics

AUGUST 31, 2018

Customer experience is the sum of all experiences, interactions, or touchpoints a customer has with a company. CX is holistic and covers a wide number of touchpoints. A complete VoC program includes all touchpoints, including those that are product or digitally oriented. Understand the difference with touchpoint mapping.

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GetFeedback

JANUARY 12, 2020

airline industry, is rightly concerned with delivering the value customers expect, and so will not “fix” individual touchpoint issues even when customers request. Customer touchpoints vs. journeys. Let’s take a deeper look at customer experiences by distinguishing between touchpoints and a journey.

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Kerry Bodine

JANUARY 23, 2017

McKinsey & Company backs me up on this: In March 2016, it reported that “journey performance is significantly more strongly linked to economic outcomes than are touchpoints alone.” What new touchpoints need to be developed to realize this vision? Which current touchpoints need to go away? Create a long-term vision.

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Seaton CX

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It’s an exercise in tactical responsiveness but strategic futility, and a cautionary tale for many CX leaders who mistake busyness for progress. The Folly of Optimizing Touchpoints With limited resources—time, money, and people—you’re forced to direct your activities toward changes that produce the biggest business outcomes.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 12, 2022

Customer Listening Posts are specific tools, locations and mechanisms to gather customer feedback along specific touchpoints on the customer journey. Offer specific measurement for parts of the customer journey, like tracking Customer Satisfaction Rates for a high-stakes touchpoint like product delivery or a customer service interaction.

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Horizon CX

JUNE 10, 2022

The customer journey map (CJM) is a useful and crucial tool to help businesses uncover and visualize the experience their customers have when interacting with the brand from the customer’s point of view. Unless you’re committed to that, the mapping would merely be an exercise with no tangible business outcome.

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Kerry Bodine

JULY 11, 2017

The five customers in my group were in the midst of a warm-up activity we often use to precede journey mapping proper—brainstorming and prioritizing the ways in which they interact with an organization, in this case a major retailer. Then the facilitator (that’s me!) I was the only one holding a writing implement.

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CX Accelerator

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From a character perspective, it requires empathy – the exercise is about walking in your customer’s shoes and trying to understand not just what they were doing at each touchpoint but thinking and feeling as well. CUSTOMER JOURNEY MAPPING Being able to map customer journeys with your organization is a skillset unto itself.

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Lumoa

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It’s estimated that 61% of bank customers interact with their institution’s digital channels on a weekly basis. The fact that consumers have a wider range of alternatives (and are willing to exercise them) means that the relationship between banks and their customers has become more vulnerable than ever before.

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CloudCherry

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Credit unions need information at-a-glance to help understand how their member base feels and acts across multiple branches and touchpoint. Within the CloudCherry platform, our CrossTabs reporting feature provides snapshot data from multiple touchpoints. Each set of touchpoints and channels are assigned to different stages.

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Customer Journeys CEM Net Promoter Score Touchpoint 150

delighted

JANUARY 7, 2021

Defining customer needs, problems, and interactions with your company may seem overwhelming and at times, unnecessary. Through this exercise, you’ll also be able to connect with your buyer and in turn, influence your organization to prioritize the customer experience (CX) through shared understanding.

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Customer Journeys Touchpoint Net Promoter Score Exercises 98

CloudCherry

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Credit unions need information at-a-glance to help understand how their member base feels and acts across multiple branches and touchpoint. Within the CloudCherry platform, our CrossTabs reporting feature provides snapshot data from multiple touchpoints. Each set of touchpoints and channels are assigned to different stages.

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Customer Journeys CEM Net Promoter Score Touchpoint 150

SurveySparrow

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It’s like a creative brainstorming session, but with a specific focus: improving the way customers feel when they interact with a business. A well-executed workshop helps you identify unique strategies and customer touchpoints that differentiate your brand from the competition. They break the journey into memorable moments.

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Alida

MARCH 8, 2018

Our customer experience team recently embarked on an exercise to create our own personas. Just as being customer-obsessed means getting everyone on the same page and empowering each employee to own a customer interaction, your personas must be infused across all parts of your business. Vision Critical is no exception. Be collaborative.

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ECXO

AUGUST 9, 2023

The impact it has on your PS and consulting, and on any client interaction, is considerable. You’ll have heard a 1000 times that you need to identify the key touchpoints that are a moment of truth with our customers. Don’t get blinkered by the touchpoints that PS / consulting teams traditionally focus on.

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SurveySparrow

MARCH 29, 2023

Each of the stages they cross is referred to as a customer touchpoint and can be used to create a delightful experience for your prospective customers. Moreover, by modeling the ecommerce user journey, you can visualize what your customers think and how they feel when they interact with your product. are touchpoints in this stage.

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Kerry Bodine

JULY 10, 2017

Next, outline the physical, digital, and human touchpoints that you think they interact with. Many aspiring journey mappers feel overwhelmed because they believe that they need to map every single interaction that their customers could possibly have with their organization. Each action goes on a separate sticky note.)

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Kerry Bodine

JANUARY 27, 2018

Read this post to understand how you should incorporate internal mapping exercises into your larger journey mapping initiatives. This post originally appeared in my regular column in Touchpoint Journal , published by the Service Design Network.). Number 5: Why You Need To Measure Journeys—Not Just Touchpoints.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Fast forward to today’s experience economy, where consumers expect seamless, consistent, proactive, predictive, and dependable interactions not only within, but across every interaction channel, platform, and business function throughout the entire customer journey. Use hyper-personalization to boost the impact of every touchpoint.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Unfortunately, in customer service settings, these sentiments affect much more than employee happiness or turnover—often impacting customer interactions and even customer satisfaction with your brand. Take the time to execute an employee journey mapping exercise that can help you uncover the personas found throughout your organization.

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CX Journey

JUNE 20, 2017

Socialize the insights/findings Step 1: Identify the Customer Knowing who the customer is seems like a no-brainer, but you’d be surprised by how many companies have never gone through the exercise of identifying the customer. The company is not the customer; the people you interact with within the company are. What are their needs?

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CloudCherry

MARCH 28, 2019

Most journey mapping exercises start out great with gathering everyone in a room, brainstorming touchpoints and designing a visual journey of how customers move through their interactions with your company. It helps you understand the context around your customer’s interactions with your company.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 26, 2021

Voice of the Customer programs help organizations keep a finger on the pulse of how they’re meeting customer needs , with VoC data revealing how customers feel about the brand, their experience, and specific interactions and touchpoints at scale. After one or three or ten calls, you’ll start seeing customers as real people.

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Social Media Contact Center Net Promoter Score Customers 254

PK

APRIL 10, 2020

Working, learning, exercising, all at home, have implications for products and experiences. Consumers are looking to decrease close physical interaction. Consider frictionless touchpoints to allow customers to opt-out of physical interactions and opt into in-store digital assistance, touchless payment or cashierless checkout.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 19, 2017

These enlightened customers demand a certain quality of interaction and service from your company. Creating a positive customer journey — from the first interaction (calls, live chat, emails or social media) to the purchase and even after the sale is made – is paramount if you want to attract and retain customers.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 12, 2021

With six exercises to guide you before, during, & after the journey mapping process -- plus a journey map template. Who better to help you design this than those who interact with customers at that very touchpoint? If you have a customer journey map, this is a good time to use it! LEARN MORE & GET THE WORKBOOK NOW.

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score Metrics Effort Score 241

Thematic

APRIL 3, 2024

It encompasses both direct feedback – what customers explicitly tell you through surveys, reviews, or conversations – and indirect feedback –  the behaviors, preferences, and sentiments expressed through actions like website interactions, purchase patterns, and social media engagement.

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Ecommerce Analysis Social Media Effort Score 62

ChurnZero

JULY 16, 2021

While high-touch and tech-touch are often pitted against each other, there’s a way to use automation without losing that quality human interaction we all know and love. ESG joined us for a webinar to discuss how automation and human touchpoints can not only coexist but amplify your outreach and efforts. Q&A Recap. Make a calendar.

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Kerry Bodine

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

How have you been able to overcome the silo mindset to get the full value out of the journey mapping exercises? You mentioned a regression analysis that showed that journeys are better predictors than individual touchpoints of customer satisfaction and likelihood to recommend. How was that calculated? That data came from McKinsey.

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CX Journey

APRIL 25, 2018

As such, journey maps are an illustration made by walking in your customers’ shoes to capture their steps, needs, and perceptions for some interaction they had with your company, some journey they were taking to achieve some outcome. Why Map Journeys Mapping isn’t just a lame exercise; it’s a learning exercise.

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