don't you know it's 2019?!

And if you work in marketing and haven't yet heard that "customer experience" is the best weapon in the battle for customers, you need to have a word with yourself.

We're all agreed that the studies by different countries, industries, and companies on this subject can't be completely wrong.

They all have one thing in common – they believe customer experience, in other words the impressions a consumer gains from a company while interacting with it, is the most important criterion of all, no matter whether it's a case of buying decisions, customer loyalty, or recommendations.

Any company wanting to generate new customers or retain existing customers really cannot avoid the topic of customer experience.

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That brings us to the question:

Customer experience is important, but how?

1. What exactly is customer experience? 1. 

At first glance, the term "customer experience" seems to have a dual meaning. On the one hand, you might think it's the experience a consumer contributes, like a job applicant's professional experience – but that's not the meaning in this case. It's more about what experience the consumer acquires when dealing with a company and interacting with it across all touchpoints and marketing channels. Whenever a consumer perceives something about a company or brand, their brain stores this "experience." Experience is built up in this way, even unconsciously – what's known as "subliminal advertising."

But even if you know all about customer experience, you might still be asking:

2. What do companies have to do to improve customer experience?

As a rule, the first step is to be present on all fronts that are relevant to the company and to make the consumer's route to the company as easy as possible.

• Social Media
  
  Make regular use of social media channels appropriate to the target groups and interact with consumers on them. Simply creating a profile and waiting around is not enough. A social media channel must be filled with content regularly and contact from users should be responded to quickly and constructively.

• The Webseite
  
  A company's website should be easy to access and have clear CTAs (calls to action). Visitors to websites must be able to tell at a first glance how they can contact the company. In addition, it is essential for the company's website to be easy to use on both a desktop PC and smartphone.
  
  Key elements of a website are:
  
  

  • Contact form
• Email Adresse
  
• Click To Call Button
  
• Book a Demo oder Angebot anfordern
  
• Live Chat
  

• Be reachable
  
  Like with the social media channels, it's not enough simply to create the infrastructure. You have to work on it actively to improve customer experience. For example, web forms, emails, requests for quotes, live chats, and calls must be responded to directly, as individually as possible, and in a manner that benefits the consumer. A customer only associates a company with a positive customer experience if the inquiries and contact it makes with a company or brand are successful.

• Offline Marketing
  
  A lot of contact from customers is still generated using offline media such as trade fairs and print media. It's not just the design of a trade fair stand or promotional brochure that triggers a good customer experience; the path from the physical, offline world to the digital, online world must be made as easy as possible for consumers. QR codes that trigger automated things such as making a call, writing an email, visiting a website, or downloading an item are currently the key to success in this respect. Even if you yourself wouldn't toy with the idea of scanning QR codes, they are a well-established tool for Generation Z. The use of beacons and the associated digital marketing campaigns are important for branding and creating a positive image too.

• Tracking & Reporting
  
  
  Measuring and reporting across all touchpoints sounds easier than it is. To gain a proper overview of the success of individual campaigns and the budgets used in them in marketing, measuring has to encompass all points of contact with consumers. Ultimately, you can only analyze what you measure, and then use the outcomes to optimize future action.
  
  Ideally this is what needs to be measured:
  
  
  • Webseitenbesuche (Web Analytics)
    
  • Chats (Web Analytics)
  • Inbound Calls (Call Tracking)
  • Completed web forms (web analytics)
• Visitors to branches (beacons)

Summary:

The latest "holy grail" is not in fact the best influencer, the fastest website, the best-designed flyer, or the most striking trade fair stand. The combined use of touchpoints and fast, high-quality feedback to consumers are the key to success. At the end of the day, you can only be one step ahead if you have information about what marketing measures were involved in the most successful customer experience, namely a closed sale. Weighting these individual contact points in a customer journey is without doubt the biggest challenge for marketing departments. But it can be done with sufficient data and relevant analyses.

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