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How Automation is Impacting the Digital Marketing Experience

Helen Cartwright / 5 min read.
August 27, 2018
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The Truth About Automation in The World of Digital Marketing: Don’t Make These Mistakes!

Customer engagement has been described as the experience of all of a consumer’s contacts with a business’s services, brand and products. While powerful customer engagement has been proved to generate significant outcomes ”more sales, more loyalty and more customers ”a lot of companies keep struggling to distinguish the approach that would best achieve this. This does not have to be the fact of the matter. Directors can fulfil these goals if they concentrate on something more focused: the digital consumer experience.

Interactions; Physical vs. Virtual

Digital customer engagement involves just those contacted through a digital interaction such as a tablet, a smartphone or a computer. Investigating a product on the internet, utilizing a mobile application to locate a store’s closest position, seeking for tech support assistance on a cell phone ”each one of these is a digital customer encounter.

This isn’t the only category of customer experience, and a sound customer experience plan does not equate to a well-executed digital customer experience program. Too many companies get stagnant while looking for, incorporating and tracking the return on customer experience enhancement ventures as the issues they’re trying to figure out necessitate a greater focus on the digital consumer experience. Offline and online customers are birds of extremely separate feathers.

A consumer’s participation in a physical environment is decided by a big group of aspects such as how other buyers are acting (and if there are any other people there at all), the location’s overall ambiance ”its lighting, temperature, music and ambient noise ”and its physical place.

Marketing Experiences Online

Customers understand that a portion of these circumstances lies outside of a company‘s immediate control, so they generally set a lower bar for what qualifies as a satisfying encounter. For instance, they don’t care about waiting a couple of minutes for assistance. Online customers are a lot less understanding.

Because in the end, clicking a button is far easier than travelling across the city to talk with a manager. Recent research discovered that a ten-second delay for a loading page could make 50 percent of customers give up and flee. Investigators at Microsoft even observed that a site starts losing traffic to the competition when it takes even 250 milliseconds more to load the page.

Perspectives of the Purchasers

It appears that when consumers have a less than likable online engagement, they blame the business immediately. To customers, there’s no adequate explanation for a bad digital experience. Given how picky customers can be in digital interplays, you’d suspect more companies to fund extremely perfected digital experiences. But a study we recently reviewed revealed that more than 90 percent of customers have had one or more deal-breaking digital experience when handling a smartphone to look up customer service data.

To prevent making customers unhappy, lowering their lifetime preference or sending them to the competition because of inadequate digital occurrences, companies will benefit from concentrating on these objectives for an efficient digital consumer experience program:


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Consent

One of the things that tie all of these points together, especially with marketing, is incorporating a section of your landing page to testimonials. This not only adds credibility, but it also has the effect of building a community of people that want to say good things about your product because of how helpful it was for them. You can also add the separate section for this is your service pages just like Youi did for car insurance page. Testimonials are foundational pieces of information that a lot of users will navigate to first when they’re visiting your site. It’s one of the most trustworthy things that people look to when deciding to go with your company.

Consistency Creates Brand Loyalty

Consistency produces loyalty and depends on inner IT. A customer’s opinion of a company is like a collage. It relies on many specific reference points. When a customer encounters with a significant choice, say leaving a familiar brand for its competition, the total impression of the mosaic is generally what persuades them to stay. As businesses give inconsistent digital encounters ” such as the airline that supplied me with one Customer ID on its site, then expected a separate identifier while my hands were loaded at their booth in the terminal ”then the customer ends up with a confusing and disjointed opinion of the company. Leaving immediate frustration aside, over time these disparities erode commitment.

Bottom Line

This union with the user demands consistent domestic IT systems. Shockingly, for many brands, consistency is treated as an afterthought. Case in point, of all the businesses that asked for our input with picking software for their support and service departments, 64 percent have no automated arrangement in place.

They generally have piecemeal processes, jumbled together from one or more task-fixed programs. For instance, firms use Outlook as their mail client to reply to consumer requests and then track those manually in Excel.

While this method may work on a micro level, it swiftly becomes wasteful and unmanageable. Brands shouldn’t wait to invest in dedicated automation systems which can streamline customer-facing systems ”and decrease inconsistencies and errors.

Omnichannel software for support also serves to build reliability. It stops the problem of requiring customers to echo themselves. As a business’s service or CRM software doesn’t trace all interactions and draw them together over every channel (phone, social media, email, live chat etc.), then the client will experience a fragmented digital consumer exposure.

These days, if the live chat agent asks the consumer to repeat the messages they gave already in an earlier communication the consumer will see the inconsistency; it seems similar to a betrayal of the consumer’s time. Automated software for support this from occurring, by unifying all relations, streamlining the consumer’s digital encounter and, over a period, creating loyalty.

The best case is that these extensions fail to win traction; the worst case is that they can produce a more complicated or confusing experience that forces people away. A more professional approach is to design or incorporate an automated program that streamlines some phase of the journey that customers are already experiencing. Prevent them from wasting effort and time; do not ask for a greater amount of either. Many companies have mobile apps that are a great example of this kind of marketing.

For example, some handle a consumer’s “loyalty points” and allows consumers to order ahead of time, allowing them to skip the in-store waits. Consumers love that these applications preserve their time. In a typical week, millions of purchases are made through apps like these, accounting for 16 percent of every purchase.

Categories: Strategy
Tags: digital, experience, marketing

About Helen Cartwright

Helen Cartwright is a passionate blogger, who excels in the Digital Marketing and Technology niche. When not wired in marketing strategies she ghost-write for a variety of authors who have their work published on leading online media channels such as The Huffington Post and Entrepreneur.com.

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