From touchpoints to journeys: Seeing the world as customers do.

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As an individual or department in an organization, you work hard to ensure that a prospect or customer’s interaction with your ‘touchpoint’ in the business is a positive one. This is good as far as it goes but as McKinsey points out, this siloed focus on individual ‘touchpoints’ misses the bigger—and more important—picture: the customer’s end-to-end experience.

For customers, their interaction with your area is likely not just a single touchpoint. It’s often just one of a series of interactions along the way and overall satisfaction will come from not just the one, but rather the sum of a series of interactions. Here’s more on how to look at, and manage touchpoints, holistically.

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McKinsey adds Consumer Decision Insights Linked to Growth

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Growth! What CEO isn’t looking for that today? Well, hot off the presses is more excellent insight from McKinsey as they extend their great work on the Consumer Decision Journey. This latest article (The new Battleground for Marketing-led Growth) focuses more on the key ‘acquisition’ part of the journey, and how you get your Brand into prospects’ “Initial Consideration Set” .

McKinsey found that only 3 of 30 product categories were ‘loyalty’ driven. The other 27 had prospects (or existing customers) ‘shopping’ to one degree or other. They also found that while 42% of purchases are still made by consumers returning to their incumbent brands, fully 87% of consumers ‘shopped around’.

Whether consumers/customers already know your brand, and especially if they don’t, it’s critical to ensure you create the awareness and engagement that puts your brand into that critical Initial Consideration Set!

Read the whole article here.