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CUSTOMER JOURNEY ANALYTICS:


          HOW TO MIND MAP YOUR CUSTOMER




                           In  today’s  digital  world,  customer  journeys  are  complex.  Each
                           journey involves multiple channels. multiple channels and touch
                           points over different phases. Therefore, it is crucial for businesses

                           to map trends in  such  customer  journeys,  both  for customer
                           retention and revenue generation. And with the advent of Artificial
                           Intelligence, firms can better influence customer journeys to reap

                           benefits.

                                                                           -Vinay Jain, Product Manager, Flytxt



                       hat does a typical customer             and analyzing these customer journeys

                       purchase journey look                   over multiple channels and touch points
          Wlike? A customer sees your                          with a data-driven approach is termed as
          product, buys it and then may repeat the             Customer Journey Analytics (CJA).

          purchase if they are satisfied with the              The tendency of customers to hop from
          outcome.                                             one channel to another increases the risk

          In reality, though, the journey is far more          of an incomplete purchase. Moreover,
          complex. It includes multiple phases,                the customer might lose interest in one’s
          such as switching between multiple                   product or services along the way. In

          devices and hopping from one touch                   such scenarios, it would help marketers
          point to another before making the                   to have a unified view of omni-channel
          final purchase decision. As per Google’s             customer journey across touch
          research, the average consumer uses as               points. This understanding can enable

          many as three to five channels or devices            businesses to influence his/her buying
          in the course of completing a purchase.              behavior and deliver seamless customer

          Therefore, you may have to make                      engagement in real time.
          multiple efforts to convince consumers               Mapping  customer  journeys
          to pick your brand and stick with it.
                                                               By analyzing customer journey, brands
          What  is  Customer  Journey                          can gain insights, such as the most
          Analytics?                                           popular choices the customers made,

          The customer journey is a set of                     points at which they abandoned
          interactions a customer has with a                   shopping and high - effort journeys to

          brand to complete a task at hand. For                churn probabilities. Using these critical
          example, the whole sequence of actions               insights, one can act towards improving
          a customer follows while interacting with            customer lifetime value, inherently

          a telecom operator to activate a data                improving customer experience.
          plan is a journey. The process of tracking           Customer Journey Analytics further


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