"I want my customers to get the most relevant communications based on where they are in their journey"
"I don’t want my customers to receive untimely, irrelevant communications."
What is customer journey analytics?
A customer journey is the sum of all the experiences that a person has with a brand. It includes everything from the moment of discovery, through to post-sales stages such as trust, loyalty and advocacy. Every customer journey can be different and it's constantly evolving — every new interaction has the potential to re-shape the journey, and a negative experience could stop it in its tracks completely. Optimising the customer journey is one of the most significant factors for marketers and having a customer-centric approach is considered key to marketing success.
Apteco software is platform-agnostic and will integrate with many of your existing channels and data sources, providing a comprehensive customer journey analytics solution from data consolidation, through to insights and visualisations, automation and optimisation.
Consolidate and connect data from different tools and sources to access complete and accurate information. Connect your CRM, online store, and email data to understand how engagement with marketing communications impacts sales and conversions.
Understand patterns of customer behaviour to drive communication and business decisions. Easily identify, analyse, and target your data, by utilising selection mechanisms to filter and refine selections, and recency, frequency and value metrics to determine a customer’s worth.
Uncover the answers to your most important questions and make hypothesis to test and learn. Create dashboards to tell your data story visually from hypothesis to results, and use modelling tools to understand customer behaviour, to help you to predict future behaviour more accurately.
Put your data insights to work to get the best results. Automate your campaigns to support your creativity and communication. Schedule campaigns so that you can plan, create, and run them without any unnecessary interaction, using critical functionality to achieve hyper-personalisation.
Move to campaign prioritisation and optimisation to continuously improve and refine the customer journey. Generate reports ranging from operational information such as timings, volumes, and campaign status to marketing effectiveness such as ROI and engagement rates.
Today’s savvy customers have high expectations when it comes to their experiences with brands. They demand seamless, secure, omnichannel, on-demand and personalised interactions — and they have little patience for those that fail to deliver.
Customer journey analytics allows businesses to reflect and grasp the complexity of today’s customer journeys in an omnichannel environment. Instead of one generic view of all customers or a few personas, it provides a holistic overview of the entire journey on an individual customer basis.
Customer journey mapping is the process of creating a visualisation of every interaction a customer has with a product, service, or brand. It’s a common method that organisations use to see their business from the customer’s perspective.
To optimise your customer journey management, you first need to understand their behaviour. For example, what has brought them to your website or store? What are they trying to achieve? Where are they experiencing friction? And what action has that friction led to? This is where customer journey analytics comes in.
For most organisations, it’s simply impossible to analyse every stage of every customer journey manually.
Customer journey analytics tools, however, can process huge volumes of data. This data could include everything from email open rates and customer feedback, through to the frequency of website visits, the average value of spend — even social media behaviour.
We want to give you peace of mind when choosing the right Apteco software to fit your business needs, and our team is on hand to help you make the right decision. To discover more about how we can help you, book a demo. Alternatively, try the Apteco Orbit™ platform for yourself.
Predicting fan retention with Apteco software was incredibly useful. We knew exactly which fans were at low risk of lapsing meaning vital marketing activities were not used needlessly.
Kyle Cockett, Insight Manager, Everton
Consolidate all your data for a 360 degree view of your customer
Connect your CRM system, donation platform and email data to understand how engagement with marketing communications impacts sales. Apteco Designer, our ETL Tool (Extract, Transform, Load) will quickly bring data together from multiple, varied silos to create a data model.
Uncover how your customers interact with you and reveal their lifetime value
Easily identify, analyse and target your data, by utilising selection tools to filter and refine selections. Get a clear view of your customers at each stage of their lifecycle, using visualisation tools and use recency, frequency and value metrics to determine a customer’s worth. Understanding purchasing patterns is key to understanding the customer journey and FastStats provides two powerful wizards for this exploration - basket and transactional wizards.
Use reporting to help uncover key insights
Reporting ideally shows a story and an outcome, from which critical decisions can be made, and strategies formed. Dashboard visualisations draw the eye to any trends or questions that you have about the patterns in the data, helping you to plan and proactively react to change. Use modelling tools to understand previous behaviours, helping you to predict future behaviour and select individuals for targeting, such as those who are likely to look like or act like your "best" customers, more accurately. It's also crucial to look at migration trends across large numbers of customers. Does this indicate changes in market conditions, increased competition, or seasonal buying behaviour? Monitoring migrations allows you to analyse large scale changes, see how long customers spend in different segments, and ensure that you understand the customer journey at all times.
Plan, create, and run personalised campaigns without any unnecessary interaction
PeopleStage, Apteco’s multichannel campaigning tool allows you to send messages using numerous platforms and channels - email, direct mail, social media, What’s App business API, Salesforce, SMS, push notifications, FTP, and call centre. Your communications can be highly personalised, and you can utilise data fields, expressions, or create new data fields (virtual variables), free text, imagery, and media to personalise your message. Communication and response history is recorded - ready for data insights to be drawn for reporting.
Identify and remove hurdles to optimise the customer journey
Learn where and why abandonment is taking place so that more customers complete frictionless journey steps and have a better experience as a result. Measure your marketing effectiveness and ROI to inform your optimisation strategy and utilise A/B testing in audience selection, personalisation messaging and channel execution. PeopleStage campaign optimisation tools use data attributes, model scores or even a listed priority order to ensure that each customer receives the most appropriate set of campaigns. Segment migrations give important clues to the optimisation potential in your communications, offering indications for the most relevant marketing campaign – such as win back, churn prevention or incentives.
Apteco software has transformed the way WWF communicates with its supporter base.
Read our case study to find out how our '2021 Best use of Apteco software' award winners have, with the help of Apteco software, been better able to align products and experiences with supporters who are more likely to respond to them, paving the way for more supporter-centric automated donor journeys. Discover how FastStats has helped to drive supporter segmentation for marketing campaigns and how PeopleStage has allowed WWF to use the insight derived in FastStats to drive personalisation across multichannel journeys.
Wizards can help you uncover customer value, by slicing your data into meaningful bands and segments.
Visualisation tools paint a picture - allowing trends and patterns to spring out for interpretation.
Modelling tools help to understand customer behaviour and identify individuals for further analysis.
Use past buying behaviours to predict your customer’s ‘Best next offer’ and create highly targeted campaigns.
Automate triggers such as birthdays or basket abandonments to engage with customers in a speedy and effective way.
A/B testing will help you to determine which audience, messaging or content works best, to improve the customer experience.
Identify and remove hurdles to optimise the customer journey
Learn where and why abandonment is taking place so that more customers complete frictionless journey steps and have a better experience as a result. Measure your marketing effectiveness and ROI to inform your optimisation strategy and utilise A/B testing in audience selection, personalisation messaging and channel execution. PeopleStage campaign optimisation tools use data attributes, model scores or even a listed priority order to ensure that each customer receives the most appropriate set of campaigns. Segment migrations give important clues to the optimisation potential in your communications, offering indications for the most relevant marketing campaign – such as win back, churn prevention or incentives.
Use reporting to help uncover key insights
Reporting ideally shows a story and an outcome, from which critical decisions can be made, and strategies formed. Dashboard visualisations draw the eye to any trends or questions that you have about the patterns in the data, helping you to plan and proactively react to change. Use modelling tools to understand previous behaviours, helping you to predict future behaviour and select individuals for targeting, such as those who are likely to look like or act like your "best" customers, more accurately. It's also crucial to look at migration trends across large numbers of customers. Does this indicate changes in market conditions, increased competition, or seasonal buying behaviour? Monitoring migrations allows you to analyse large scale changes, see how long customers spend in different segments, and ensure that you understand the customer journey at all times.
Related products
Apteco software tools to help you to effectively analyse your customer journeys.
Apteco Orbit™
Seamlessly share critical data with internal stakeholders, giving them the information that’s most important to them in a user-friendly format.
Apteco FastStats®
Transform all your offline and digital data sources into easy-to-understand visuals that give you a total customer view. Analyse even the largest data sets to gain insight and improve campaign effectiveness.
Apteco PeopleStage™
Turn insights into action with the tools to create, manage, and deliver automated, personalised marketing campaigns across your channels.
We play nicely with others
By integrating Apteco software with your existing applications and tools, you can get one version of the truth and operate with greater accuracy and efficiency.
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