Gartner defines a connected experience as one that provides a customer-centric experience based on how customers shop without channel limitations.
A connected experience would give customers more choice to:
Before you start implementing a connected commerce customer journey, you need to have a clear blueprint of how to implement it and assess your preparedness. A one-size-fits-all approach could fail. You will have to build your connected experience strategy based on your Omnichannel Retail Marketing processes and where you lie in the preparedness journey and gradually move toward the next stage. Connected experience strategy can be divided into three stages:
Identifying where your brand lies between these three stages is key to understanding how to build a connected commerce experience for your customers and meet them at every appropriate touchpoint.
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What is Omnichannel Marketing?
Omnichannel marketing refers to creating your brand’s presence across multiple online (website, app, social media, email, SMS, WhatsApp) and offline (retail store, events, call-center) channels while ensuring a positive and seamless experience throughout the customer journey.
What Is a Connected Experience?
Gartner defines a connected experience as one that provides a customer-centric experience based on how customers shop without channel limitations.
Why Do You Need a Connected Experience?
To build a superior and consistent experience, you must understand how your customers behave online and offline, their buying preferences, the kind of events that trigger purchases, etc. Connected experiences work best to get these insights. Online analytics captures critical data, such as the behavioral and purchasing patterns of the user, in-store analytics can help capture data, such as the neighborhood that customers prefer to visit the most.
How to Build a Connected Customer Journey?
Before you start implementing a connected customer journey, you need to have a clear blueprint of how to implement it and assess your preparedness. A one-size-fits-all approach could fail. You will have to build your connected experience strategy based on where you lie in the preparedness journey and gradually move toward the next stage. Connected experience strategy can be divided into three stages:
What are some best practices to use engagement frameworks?
Analyzing Micro-moments to Create Connected Journey
Segmenting by Tags, Events and Actions
Creating Workflows by Deploying User Event and Activity Conditions
Setting Touchpoints Using Suitable Channels
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