CX Journey

OCTOBER 8, 2015

There are five basic principles that journey maps must adhere to. Once upon a time (and still today), journey maps were created on butcher paper with post-it notes. It’s also time-consuming and fosters that one-and-done attitude that becomes the death knell of journey mapping. Maps should be updated.

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Beyond Philosophy

AUGUST 1, 2019

It starts with understanding the customer journey and how they feel during the different moments of their experience. We enable this understanding through behavioral Journey Mapping , which we have discussed in the past. Educate your people on the importance of body language in communication.

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Customer Service Life

MAY 6, 2019

During the rollout of this new style guide, we selected an issue type or contact driver that frequently aggravates customers, leading to dissatisfaction, and facilitated a journey mapping exercise to see the before, during, and after for that particular issue type. What worked. This added some awkwardness to the exercise. Key Insights.

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CX Accelerator

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

I first wanted to understand a bit about the educational background of CX professionals and gain insight into their individual journeys to careers in CX. Customer journey mapping, a key exercise in the field of CX, is all about developing customer personas and mapping their experience with your company from start to finish.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

For example, the companies with the best ROI and results to show in Thompson’s survey took a more comprehensive and thorough approach to journey mapping. We need to develop the tools people use to optimize the Customer Experience. Senior management needs to understand and embrace the ideas behind Customer Experience.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Note: the first two pillarscustomer journey and datacome first because its nearly impossible to create digital CS processes without having a string journey map in place, with the data to back it up. Digital customer success pillar 1: Journey map. From there, go back to your journey map.

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Clarabridge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Customer journey mapping is a hot topic, but many organizations don’t get full value out of their maps. To truly unlock the potential of a customer journey map, you need to understand the role of journey analytics. A journey map is just a tool. Ready for more?

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CX Journey

APRIL 25, 2018

Are you mapping their experiences? What is Journey Mapping? Let me start with explaining what journey maps are not: they are not lifecycle maps, sales funnels, buyer funnels, buyer lifecycles, etc. The output is not just a “pretty picture;” once the map is developed, it is meant to be a catalyst for change.

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PeopleMetrics

MAY 12, 2022

Customer journey mapping can make the crucial difference between driving business success and seeing flagging customer satisfaction, retention rates, and revenue. Customer journey mapping is a foundational part of that process. Here's what we'll cover: Journey Mapping Fundamentals.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Map the Customer Journey Understanding your customers full lifecycle with your business is key to identifying moments when great service can make a difference. Pre-purchase Stage : How do you attract and educate potential customers? During the Purchase : What barriers could prevent them from completing their purchase?

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Education Services Group

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Over the years, we’ve helped many of our clients build customer journey maps as part of our Customer Success as a Service® business model. We’ve developed a unique approach for collaboratively mapping the customer journey to create a finished product that CS teams can immediately put to work to improve the customer experience.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It is essential to understand which mode your customer is in and where they are in the journey. If you’re doing your journey map appropriately, you should have some insight into how your customer thinks and feels at each stage, their mindset, and what information is essential to them. Everybody was exhausted from it.

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Education Services Group

JUNE 21, 2018

In fact, it’s also a solid place to start answering the question of what is customer journey mapping. However, so many businesses rely on reactive measures —when the actual goal should be identifying customer journey mapping tools and proactively defining what success looks like to customers at each stage of the customer lifecycle.

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Education Services Group

MAY 24, 2023

A customer journey map is one of the first things you think of when you’re trying to improve the customer experience. In short, journey maps are pretty darn great. While we’re all in agreement that customer journey maps are the cat’s pajamas, the industry doesn’t all agree on one single way to build them.

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Education Services Group

JUNE 1, 2023

The customer journey map is a wonderful tool that’s a critical component of operationalizing your Customer Success capabilities. One obvious way CS makes an impact is by building the customer journey map in the first place.

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Education Services Group

JULY 5, 2023

Every customer journey map is a little bit different (or a lot different) depending on many factors, but one thing they all have in common is the end of the contract term. In our universal customer journey map, Loyalty comes after Service, and it’s not just about renewal. Loyalty – The story continues…forever?

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Education Services Group

JUNE 20, 2023

Continuing our series investigating all the stages of a customer journey map, I’m diving into everything that makes (or breaks) this chapter of the CX story. Once the customer hits first value, typically around the three-month mark , they move into the Service stage of the customer journey map.

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Education Services Group

JUNE 12, 2023

Not everyone does it exactly like this, but we’ve seen many a customer journey map in all our years helping businesses build them. While there is no universally accepted, one-size-fits-all model for the journey, we’ve divided it into the five stages that broadly fit CS best practices the most. That’s right.

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Education Services Group

JULY 18, 2023

So…quick question: What is a customer journey map? A customer journey map can be many things. But these maps can also be instruments of positive change in your organization – representing both the current state of your customer experience and what it could be in the future. need a customer journey map?

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CX Journey

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Did you know that journey maps are more than a tool? I've written previously about 11 myths and mistakes about journey mapping: 5 Myths of Journey Mapping 6 Bonus Myths of Journey Mapping I should add one more myth, which is really the umbrella myth that likely encompasses all the others: Journey mapping is just a tool.

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CX Accelerator

JULY 1, 2019

3 Steps to Inclusive CX Step One: Map the customer journey Hubspot offers customer journey map templates, instructions, and insight for CX professionals interested in customer journey mapping. The authors suggest the following structure for the journey map process: Set clear objectives for the map.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2020

As one of the buyer’s journey map stages, consideration is where you also need to make sure that your goals align with that of your buyers. During this buyer journey mapping stage, they’ll think about product implementation and the start cost. How to Create Content for Each Stage of the Buyer’s Journey.

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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). They are both ways of looking at the customer journey, but one concentrates on the front-end, customer experience and the other focuses on the back-end processes that drive those experiences.

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Education Services Group

MARCH 30, 2022

When you build a customer journey map, you’re focused on the customer’s experience from their perspective. It’s easy to confuse this with a customer touchpoint map (also known as a service blueprint), where you look at the internal processes that support a customer’s external experience.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We’re here to help you, by empowering you with the network and the educational resources you need you advance in your career. And with that spirit in mind, I thought I’d share a few unconventional tools you can use in your journey to achieve CX domination. It’s one of the many reasons why CX Accelerator exists.

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Education Services Group

APRIL 28, 2020

Like many things in the world today, the role and purpose of education organizations inside companies is very dynamic. Once a stalwart of technology offerings, education departments were able to get by with producing quality content and scheduling courses to deliver that content for many years. Self-serve abilities become a premium.

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CCNG

MAY 10, 2023

All the journey mapping, webinars, ROI discussions, surveys, and strategies won’t instantaneously create a better experience for your customers. There is no magic bullet to a better experience. As stated earlier, customer expectations are changing dramatically and will continue to do so forever. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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CX Accelerator

MARCH 14, 2019

Consider all the skills required to thrive in the role.data crunching, storytelling, journey mapping, process improvement, change management, strategic thinking, influencing behaviors, project management.the list goes on. When it comes to Customer Experience (CX) work, it takes a very special type of person to be successful.

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Totango

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Is the customer journey mapping exercise a worthwhile effort? At the same time, the ability to keep a pulse on those changing dynamics is crucial to customer success—and a well implemented customer journey map can help do that. The key to making the customer journey map purposeful? We hope so!

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Clarabridge

JUNE 6, 2017

Marketing departments in dimly lit offices everywhere are either beginning to see the value in mapping the customer journey or have a beautifully designed one collecting dust on a shared drive. Some call it a Customer Journey Map, User Experience Journey, or Customer Decision Journey. Assumptions.

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Nicereply

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

If you’re creating an online course, instead of guiding customers through a purchase, you’re guiding learners to education. While we’re far from perfecting this science, many techniques that work for CX are also relevant to online educational content. In order to improve the entire customer journey, we need to look at the big picture.

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CX Accelerator

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

I first wanted to understand a bit about the educational background of CX professionals and gain insight into their individual journeys to careers in CX. Customer journey mapping, a key exercise in the field of CX, is all about developing customer personas and mapping their experience with your company from start to finish.

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360Connext

JANUARY 8, 2018

Then you simply must understand the journey by undertaking a robust customer journey mapping process. And of course, don’t forget to educate the executives and employees throughout your organization! There are so many areas to tackle. Those surveys don’t develop and send themselves.

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360Connext

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

These subtle but important mentions can reassure and encourage a customer to continue their journey, confident they are able to make choices that best suit them. Overlooked moment #3: Education where customers need it. It’s smart to align your customer’s journey with your education strategy.

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Eptica

JUNE 12, 2019

There are a ton of best practices for proper survey design and VoC program design; educate yourself on these and incorporate them into your program. Incorporate the data into journey maps Customer understanding is comprised of surveys and customer data, personas, and journey mapping. cx - journey.

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Clarabridge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Customer journey mapping is a hot topic, but many organizations don’t get full value out of their maps. To truly unlock the potential of a customer journey map, you need to understand the role of journey analytics. A journey map is just a tool. Ready for more?

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We’re here to help you, by empowering you with the network and the educational resources you need you advance in your career. And with that spirit in mind, I thought I’d share a few unconventional tools you can use in your journey to achieve CX domination. It’s one of the many reasons why CX Accelerator exists.

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