How do you start to improve the customer experience?

Posted by Keith Schorah on June 8, 2011

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Companies often don’t realise how many interactions they have with customers. These touch points can be at different stages of the buying process. It is fundamental that a company needs to understand what each of these relevant stages are. Customer journey mapping allows not only visualisations of these touch points to be created, but the process of developing the journey map will create organisational learning of the service elements and communications which are key to delivering a positive customer experience at each stage.

Using the customer journey map, an event based sampling strategy can be implemented. Feedback can be measured at each key stage, triggered by an event such as after a service call. Such a strategy can provide sufficient insight to drive improvements of each stage, which will contribute to driving improvements in the customers overall experience. Determining the points at which feedback is gathered ensures that feedback is timely and relevant.

Improvements to the customer experience can be gained by driving action from feedback which is relevant and up to date. Customer journey mapping identifies the most important touch points with customers, allowing service improvements to have the best impact.

Keith Schorah

Keith Schorah founded SynGro, a leading Voice of the Customer (VoC) company in 2004, following a distinguished career in sales and marketing within the IT, telecommunications and industrial sectors, and a long consulting background of designing and implementing customer service programmes in companies around the world. SynGro is focused on the enterprise sector of the Voice of the Customer market where its skills in integrating VOC information with client data such as financials and CRM have been paramount to its success.

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Miriam

July 3, 2011

I also agree that the best

I also agree that the best way to create the strong customer base is to enhance the customer's experience.
This is also called personalization or customization of the customer 's experience. And this can only be achieved by observing the customer's journey map as appointed by Keithsay I do and take your guests on your honeymoon cruise

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