Mobile usage continues to rise, especially for travel, but brand loyalty is eroding as customer expectations increase. To optimize the mobile customer experience, companies should:
1) Understand where customers are struggling in their journey and identify improvements across channels to drive acquisition, revenue, and loyalty.
2) Know how customers are interacting most with the mobile app to improve usability and gain insights from analytics.
3) Maximize engagements by creating a unified customer identity across interactions and integrating tools to provide a consistent experience across multiple mobile and digital channels.
1. 5 Ways to Optimize Customer
Experiences on Mobile Apps
Karen He, Portfolio Marketing Manager, IBM Customer
Experience (CX) Analytics
Mike Combs, Mobile UX Design Director
12. #1 Keep It Simple
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Design a mobile app
Design a place where users
can connect with you easily
right from their phones
Product or Task Focused Experience Focused
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In IBM Interactive Experience’s nearly 20 years of working with clients, we have seen the range – waterfall oriented big-
bang release approaches driven by marketing organizations and technology and engineering driven feature releases
without customer or user needs in mind. In response to our experience with these two extremes, IBM has created an
agile-oriented, but design and customer experience driven framework for project execution and team member
collaboration – IBM Design Thinking + Agile (Scrum)
The Frameworks That Guide Our Efforts
22. #2 Understand Where Your Customers Are Struggling
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#2 Understand where your
customers are struggling
23. Understand customer journeys
Journey Analytics
Use marketing tools to
visualize the entire customer
journey, as individuals and
segments, across channels to
pinpoint improvements that
drive acquisition, revenue
and loyalty.
24. Gain insight on mobile users’ touch, tap and swipe
every time
25. 1) Quickly discover a web or mobile issue
High numbers of customer abandoning in a
particular part
2) Quickly isolate the source of the problem
This problem needs to be resolved quickly to
minimize revenue losses.
Drill down to the root cause of the problem and
monetize issue in dollar amount
By identifying the source of the problem, we
eliminate the need for bridge calls, which reduces
cost and time per incident.
3) Recover lost customers
Prioritize by monetizing issue in dollar amount
Effectively retarget impacted customers
Critical issues are very costly and detrimental to
brand loyalty
26. #3 Know where your customers are interacting the most
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#3 Know where your customers
are interacting the most
Experience is changing expectations
Once in a generation opportunity to lead our organizations
Peter Drucker
"Because its purpose is to create a customer,
the business has two - and only two - functions: marketing and innovation.
Marketing and innovation create value, all the rest are costs.”
truer than 1954
Marketing and marketers are back in the driving seat
Bumpy Ride -- Embrace
Shape expectations of our customers -- experiences
Bridget van Kralingen
“The last, best experience that anyone has, anywhere, becomes the minimum expectation for the experiences they want everywhere.”
context for challenges
-- competing with all industries
– retailer --- delightful experiences -- bank, --- phone provider --- government
experience already transcend channels
--- deliver consistently delightful experiences -- phone, mobile, web, face to face
experience now transcends industry too,
our experiences -- consumers and citizens -- expectations -- our employers.
Customers expect so much more…
Experience is the new competitive battleground
Design is the intent behind an outcome. Human-centered outcomes require you to develop empathy with the people you serve.
IBM Design Thinking helps teams understand peoples’ needs, form intent and deliver outcomes to satisfy those needs, at speed and scale.
IBM is announcing a new way to understand your customers with an innovative unified customer analytics platform that takes a unique approach to breaking down the silos of customer data in the context of a customer’s journey squarely putting the customer at the center of our new Customer Analytics offering. With the debut of Journey Analytics, we are providing immediate insight into the sequence of activities customers are actually engaging in, across time, channels and devices. This first of its kind insight enables you to accelerate the path to purchase and drive more profitable relationships. IBM Journey Analytics is fueled by an open data exchange that breaks down silos of customer data, enabling you to easily access customer data, and put it to work in analytics and engagement applications, regardless of where that data was collected. We enable a seamless customer experience by providing a common view of the customer for commerce, marketing and service teams, simplifying their jobs by turning data into answers, and embedding these insights into the applications they use to engage the customers.
You can gain actionable insight and make accurate and timely decisions.
Business teams detect anomalies on conversion rates and abandonment rates on a particular web or mobile channel.
You can quickly isolate the source of the problem with Tealeaf by understanding where exactly customers struggled – for example any error messages that are faulty on a web site or mobile site that was not supposed to be there
Once you drill down on that issue and find the root cause, you can find the business impact of that issue by quantifying the number of customers who abandoned because of that issue and then measure how much money was lost due to the issue.
We all know that one of Silverpop’s main value propositions is that we remove Silos for marketers. Mobile is a data source
As consumer touchpoints continue to multiply, brands will realize that the customer data they have been collecting results in incoherent experiences for customers (i.e., I am treated as a VIP online, but in-store the sales associates have no idea how loyal I am or my preferences). Brands will start to integrate their various silos (email, digital marketing, finance, social, mobile, CRM, etc.) to create a single view of their customers in order to provide a cohesive experience. forward.
It’s this universal context that should be applied to all channels….
So even with the Universal Context we don’t want to ignore the device. B/c it does matter. It matters that a customer is using an older iPhone with a smaller screen vs a new iPhone with a big screen and enhanced messaging capabilities. It matters if you’re on an Android, Kindle, connected appliance. Consumers also use different devices at various points in the day.
Marketers to address each device while including the universal context
With IBM Marketing Cloud, you have a platform that helps to remove the obstacles we previously discussed for marketers and to help them evolve their marketing efforts. IBM Marketing Cloud helps a marketer to
Know their customer - Collect data across all sources, create a single customer identity, using a flexible marketing database
Deliver personalized experiences across channels and be everywhere their customer is by leveraging their data and using automation to deliver personalized experiences
Drive integration across marketing and related systems through integrating data and systems to drive a consistent experience
Single Identity: By capturing data about your customers you are going to create a portrait, or digital identity, for them. Our database not only helps you store every identity, handle, address and ID for each individual customer, it automatically helps you consolidate all the information into a single contact record ensuring that everything you understand about a customer lives in one single place. Creating the single identity leads to a consistent digital experience reflecting declared and inferred preferences based on behavior across channels.
Your customers are interacting with you through a variety of channels, and they won’t pay attention to you unless you are there with them.
We are uniquely collecting valuable information from all channels - web, email, mobile and social - and across devices and platforms. Through our automation engine, we make it easy and seamless to connect and interact with your customers on each of those channels based on their behavior. Our automation engine that can act on this behavioral data and that is driven by your marketing and business rules. You can to leverage massive amounts of collected data in order to deliver highly personalized interactions, at scale, that deliver a better buying experience and drive revenue.
IBM Marketing Cloud helps you to leverage technology to break down the organizational silos and integrate your tools and more importantly your data. We all work in organizations with departments and technologies that we don’t control, but still have information that we could use. Through IBM Marketing Cloud technologies there are ways in which we can get access to that data and use it in interacting with our customers and prospects.