The Petrova Experience

JUNE 10, 2021

Although we have published more than 130 articles on customer experience , we still have not dedicated an article to journey mapping. Journey mapping is the most widely recognized customer experience design and management concept. I genuinely dislike journey maps. Journey Mapping is a Visual Tool.

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CX Accelerator

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Customer Journey Mapping. While not required, the person in this role is often an extroverted visionary. CUSTOMER JOURNEY MAPPING Being able to map customer journeys with your organization is a skillset unto itself. The 8 skills required by any CX team are: Strategy. Project/Program Management.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

7 Tips to Simplify & Improve Employee Journey Mapping by Jeannie Walters. Experience Investigators) If you’re familiar with customer journey mapping, then you may know more about employee journey mapping (EJM) than your realize. but have you journey mapped the employee experience.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 24, 2022

Since it’s not OK to grab your customer by the sleeve and demand them to tell all, we are lucky to have a methodology called customer journey mapping. In essence, customer journey maps (CJMs) are made to visualize the customer’s path from initial thought all the way to action and make this visualization clear and understandable.

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 26, 2021

Train your people on how to evoke these emotions. Customers also say things like the organization focuses on them, like the customer is the only person in the room or that the representative picks up the customer’s call right away. That helps people think about things from a personal perspective. I love journey mapping.

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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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C3Centricity

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

A recent post by John Ollila on Loyalty Lobby about customer journey maps and touchpoints in the leisure industry prompted me to share with you, an experience I had recently with the Hilton Group. Already there, you can see that they have an incomplete customer journey mapping process.

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Beyond Philosophy

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Journey mapping can be a tricky thing for organizations. Organizations often think that doing a journey map of their experience will be the answer to life, the universe, and everything. . If we think about why we do journey mapping, one of the big reasons is to alleviate blind spots within the team.

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CX Journey

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

age courtesy of Pixabay Do you know why it's important to digitize your journey maps? In the past, I've written about some of the myths of journey mapping. One of those myths was: Without a digital mapping platform, I can't even begin to map. No more maps rolled up under your desk or stored in a closet!

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This article gets to three areas that truly benefit the customer; personalized recommendations, biometric recognition and virtual (digital) assistants. Content marketing, social media, customer feedback, customer support, and training and analytics… These aren’t just buzz words. Used the right way, it is a great aid in so many ways.

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CX Journey

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Image courtesy of Pixabay Do you know why it's important to digitize your journey maps? In the past, I've written about some of the myths of journey mapping. One of those myths was: Without a digital mapping platform, I can't even begin to map. No more maps rolled up under your desk or stored in a closet!

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Beyond Philosophy

MARCH 13, 2021

We usually do that by reflection on our personal experiences when someone made us feel that way. Train your people on how to evoke these emotions. However, with a little training, many people can learn how to do it well. 15:52 Colin shares thoughts about why traditional Journey Mapping falls short for many organizations.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 14, 2022

Using Customer Journey Maps and Jobs to Be Done for a Better Customer Experience by Tobias Komischke. My Comment: We kick off this week’s Top Five roundup with a robust article that takes us back to the basics, journey mapping the customer experience. Here are my top five picks from last week. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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ShepHyken

JULY 4, 2022

It helps understand the customer better, allows you to personalize (at scale) marketing messages, improve the shopping experience, and more. 4 Strategic Approaches to Customer Journey Mapping by Jennifer Torres. My Comment: Journey Mapping is no longer an option. This is exactly how AI is being used today.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 4, 2017

Start with your basic customer journey map that shows all of the typical interactions – or touchpoints – that the customer has when doing business with you. And you may need more than one map. A customer’s sales journey is different than a service or support journey. And, I mean everyone!

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Agencies Turning to ‘Customer Journey Maps’ to Tackle Service Woes by Nicole Ogrysko. Federal News Radio) As agencies begin to pay greater attention to customer service, more organizations are developing customer experience “journey maps” to help them better understand and respond to their constituents.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 2, 2017

I’m surprised how many companies don’t create a detailed journey map to dig deep into each (and every) interaction that customers have with you. The Most Important Rule of Journey Mapping by Annette Franz. I mentioned that step two of that process had to do with creating a customer journey map.

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Bill Quiseng

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Many CX professionals have advocated CX as strategies that explain customer journey mapping, the Peak End Rule, or innovative speed technologies among others. Let’s be revolutionary to transform CX Into CXM, customer service to customer CARE, and customer service training to an education in customer CARE or customer CARE University.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2022

Team: Constantly train, evolve and optimize your CX team. How are they trained? It’s not always in person anymore. Process: Have a living playbook and a CX journey map. If you are the only person in your organization who cares about CX, it’s just not going to happen.” How are they retained?

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Step one: Do a journey map and look for those opportunities along the customer’s journey to eliminate friction or possible problems. I’m surprised at how many companies haven’t gone through the exercise of creating a formal journey map.) My Comment: Great article about ramping up your customer experience.

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Call Experts

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Whether you have an in-house team for customer service or you’re using an app to help customers, personalized support solves everyone’s needs. Whether you have an app, website, customer portal, or help center, it’s essential to understand your customer journey. How to Provide Personalized Customer Service. A quick recap. (1)

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ShepHyken

JULY 22, 2016

It is critical to bring the whole company in line with the same unified goal when it comes to customer service—to embed service excellence in all departments – product, marketing, sales, training etc. ” Plot Out Customer Journeys. ” Plot Out Customer Journeys.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 28, 2024

This article includes five ways to manage the VIP experience, and of course, there’s technology, personalization, and more. One of the trends, “Micro-Targeting,” is about creating a highly personalized program. I came up with the concept of “Micro Data,” which is about very personalized information about a smaller set of customers.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Your SaaS customer journey map lays out optimized outcomes that lead to customer renewals, upsells, and referrals. First, we’ll define what a SaaS customer journey is, break it down into stages, and explain why mapping it out is important. Each stage in the customer’s journey builds on the previous stage.

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NobelBiz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Both the customer experience map and the journey map are essential tools for businesses aiming to understand and improve the interactions their customers have with their brand. While they often are used interchangeably, these maps serve distinct purposes, have unique elements, and offer varying insights.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 23, 2020

When we do journey mapping in our business-growth consultancy to redesign an experience, many people at the organization are involved. We have a brown piece of paper for each of the stages of the customer journey as part of the map. We Feel Losses About Intangible Items, Too. The usual things, as it were.

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Beyond Philosophy

APRIL 5, 2017

These are issues we help discover and resolve in our Behavior Journey Mapping services. By offering to resolve any issues, you’re putting the ball in the other person’s court. In a business environment it is clearly preferable to meet in person. By trying to come up with a resolution, you’re trying to move on.

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360Connext

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Apparently the last person did not read the sign. Do you have a customer journey map? More importantly, where did it come from, and does it represent the true journey of your customers? The most useful customer journey maps are created in-house by the very people delivering the real experiences.

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ShepHyken

JANUARY 17, 2022

It starts with a definition of CX and then shares seven ways to improve it, including customer journey mapping, getting feedback from employees, personalizing the experience, and more. Understand and Predict Customer Needs With Customer Journey Analytics by Simon Fraser. Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Here are some important reminders for us to consider, starting with creating your Customer Journey Map. My Comment: This is a VERY short article that introduces us to the concept of “Predictive Personalization.” For information on The Customer Focus customer service training programs go to www.TheCustomerFocus.com.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 12, 2024

Customers today expect seamless and personalized interactions across all touch points. Introducing Unified Customer Experience Management (Unified CXM) Unified CXM is the practice of creating seamless and personalized experiences for customers across all support and marketing channels.

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Beyond Philosophy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Now imagine a person gets a ladder, climbs up above the forest canopy, and looks around. Furthermore, if it was an interdepartmental meeting, there will be different views based on the department where the person works. . The next phase is journey mapping using behavioral science. Don’t Forget the Training.

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Global Response

MARCH 27, 2024

An effective call center script balances consistent service quality with personalized customer interactions. Flexibility for personalization: While providing a structured approach, your script should allow agents flexibility to personalize the conversation based on the customer’s responses and needs.

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Call Center Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2018

The SaaS customer journey leans heavily on the customer to understand the product before buying, and that's why trial periods are so popular. They want to see if they will really understand HOW the product will solve their specific, personalized challenges. Customers "kick the tires" of SaaS products in more customized ways.

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Beyond Philosophy

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

A company that creates a CX Team and undertakes customer research, journey mapping, and everything involved with improving CX without addressing their customer-centricity will fail because they tackle only the symptom, not the cause. The fact is any change in CX must address the customer centricity of the organization to affect change.

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Beyond Philosophy

OCTOBER 6, 2014

We work with Customer Experience (CX) professionals around the world and train them on how to go about implementing CX programs. Organizations create CX teams, undertake new Customer research, do journey mapping, but fall short of dealing with the cause of the problem: How Customer-centric your organization is.

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Totango

MARCH 30, 2021

The company experienced a giant boom in business, and yet, they had only one person handling all customer relations. Learn your company’s current customer journey – no matter how basic or advanced it may be. Begin advanced journey mapping to determine the next steps for building customer loyalty and continuing to provide value.

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