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6 ways brands can use Replug to strengthen the customer’s journey

Sadia Umer
6 minutes
Customer's Journey

Why is it so crucial for marketers to strengthen their brand and create a customer’s journey?

It’s an essential step toward marketing the product or brand in the digital landscape.  81% of people habitually do online research before purchasing the product or service.

The customer’s journey is a visual representation approach, having a set of activities or actions performed by the visitors before acquiring the product and services.

The approach has a series of customer’s experiences; marketers focus on the touch points, embrace the customers with the problem’s solution, and their interaction with the company or brand.  

In order to enhance the user’s experience, marketers need to tap into the customer’s needs and desires to make them feel valued and develop an emotional relationship with the company to strengthen the brand.

If you really want to educate the audience with the right content at the right time, then you have to build the customer’s journey.

There are three stages for building a customer’s journey.

Stage 1

In the first stage, the potential audiences are just getting aware of the problem they are struggling with. They are not customers of any brand yet, visiting different sites to solve their problem, including your brand too.

At this point, marketers can make people curious about their products. They must have to explain their customer’s issues which show the audience, that you care for them and come up with the solution to their problems.

Marketers can illustrate brand reliability to the audience through videos, blogs, articles,  and an educational email to tempt them to try the product once.

Stage 2

After spreading the awareness of the product, customers show interest in your product, they respond to the emails, have downloaded, performed particular actions against the CTAs.

In this move, marketers need to ONBOARD the audience to grasp the attention by explaining widely how the solution can overcome their pain points.  This stage offers the opportunity to the marketers to hold the audience for the long term and turn them into loyal customers or either they just quit.

Stage 3

A big round of applause for those marketers who successfully pulled their customers to stage 3. Now, the customers are fully satisfied with your product or service and enough confidence to repeat purchases. They are instantly your loyal customers and help the brand to lead more traffic by spreading word of mouth.

Clarify your brand with a logo

A brand is something essential for marketers. It shows the purpose of existence in front of different eyeballs.

“Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what you’re not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.” Geoffrey Zakarian

The brand with the perfect logo, design, image, and brand strategies represents the product mission and goals. It gives the sense to the people of:

  • Who are you?
  • What do you have?
  • How could you solve their problems?

To answer these questions in a more appropriate and novel way, take your business to the next level.

This article assists you to learn how you build online branding and its authority to increase the brand’s likeability factor.

The brand has the strength to build a close connection with the customers by determining the brand’s core values, convey a message that is easy to consume, and vibrant colors which lead the audience’s attention.

Related:The Ultimate Guide to Online Branding and Building Authority

Structure your Campaign

Building an optimized campaign is a significant aspect of reaching marketing goals. With the technology substitution campaigns have a call-to-action option which makes the campaigns manageable, assists to retain more people, strengthen the brand, and enhance marketing strategies.

What does CTA mean? How would CTA impact the conversion rate?

CTA means Call to actions, it may be a button or a link which you added into your website to lead the viewers, reader, and visitors to your landing page. It is the most compelling approach;  gives direction to the audience and informs them what to do next.

CTAs help you to address the target audience, move readers to your website, collect a vast lead, and conversion.

There are different tried and tested words that would definitely encourage the audience to visit your landing page and increase the conversion rate of your website. Here they are:

  • Sign up
  • Contact Sales
  • Try for free
  • Learn more
  • Shop Now
  • Explore and much more

This guideline explains how you can create a flawless  Call to action to boost your conversion rate and establish a positive connection with the audience.

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Contentstudio CTA

ContentStudio uses a compelling CTA to guide its users with the related image, and the text that lets them know how can they streamline their marketing and social media activities. This CTA gives an extra push to the user to start using the product by clicking on the CTA button. Try it for free

Use Images and Visuals to Amplify Social Engagement

Do you genuinely want to increase the social engagement toward your website or all across the channel?

Then what are you waiting for?

Visuals are the main ingredient to catch the viewer’s attention, rapport with the audience, make the visitors your loyal customers. 

As we heard before,

A picture is worth a thousand words.

A picture has an outstanding impact on digital marketing. It is more understandable and memorable than the text.

But, without text or words, the pictures couldn’t explain themselves adequately.  Although, using words helps the brand to tell the brand story in a visual context and steer the customers toward your company.

How visualization helps in email marketing?

Now, marketers can spend more time doing email marketing to target the audience using images and videos to collect the stream of traffic, engagement, and conversion to keep their business moving smoothly.

In a nutshell, visual email marketing is the attention-grabbing step which drives people to read more of your content, strengthening the brand and helps to improve SEO.

Assuredly, images get more likes and shares on social networking channels. The Entrepreneur explains 7 Steps to grow engagement with Visual Content. 

Design Memorable Links

There are hundreds of things that marketers need to keep in the top while running a website. Every marketer has a mission to stay visible and be recognized by the entire pool of people.

At this phase, marketers should be aware of the importance of branded shortened links.

Link shortening is a process, where you have a long, muddled link which you can convert into a short and tidy link.  As you know, a simple and concise message has the tendency to remember as compared to a long one, the same case is for the links too.

URL shorteners allow you to track clicks and collect the data against the links. It doesn’t only improve your site’s SEO but also supports you to boost your website traffic and increase the chances of social share.

Memorable links make it accessible for marketers to reach their total serviceable market. It has a potentiality that their audience will take an interest in your content and develop a kind association with the brand.

Let’s take an example here,

The long Url.

https://blog.replug.io/?p=1086&preview=true

Has Converted into a shortener.

https://replug.co/content-marketing

You can see the shortened URL is much more concise and it also makes sense to the reader that this URL redirects to a blog or article related to content marketing.

When it comes to creating branded shorten links,  Replug is among those notable tools that help to create shortened URLs and also give the ability to track the performance of the links on different web domains or channels. Replug offers its clients to create attractive CTAs and retarget the audience.

Related: How To Build Brand Recognition using Short Links

Brand Reporting

Reports enable the users to extract the information about the product or brand in an organized form.

Why is reporting so important?

Reports play an indispensable role and show visual data of the brand. Reports help marketers by presenting a set of data to examine the performance of their marketing activities.

It gives the direction to measure the progress of the marketing campaigns and determine what key steps marketers need to take to improve their marketing efforts.

This article guides you on how you can plan extremely focused content marketing campaigns and the importance of report for the brand.

What Reporting Offers you?

Reporting gives you the opportunity to plan and prioritize your marketing activities and encourages you to make the best-learned decisions.  Using the report feature, marketers are competent to interact with data almost in real-time and gain ROL and web traffic toward their company or brand.

Nurture Your Leads

What Nurturing your leads exactly means?

Lead nurture is the essential approach that requires establishing a relationship with the folks by spreading the awareness of the product or brand.

Marketers can create automated email marketing campaigns that educate the audience about the product and help to strengthen the brand.

Does it play a role in the Customer’s Journey?

Lead nurturing assists you to build a relationship with the target audience at each stage of the customer’s journey by identifying who is interested in your product but still confused to purchase it.

Did you know that 79% of marketing leads never convert into sales? 

Marketers shouldn’t jump into the deep ocean of sales flywheel without having enough knowledge about the prospects’ interests, issues, and fears. They have to ensure the audience by granting the solutions to their pain points, providing the most relevant content they are looking for, and answering their questions instantly.

Related: Top 9 Lead Generation Tips To Keep Your Sales Funnel Full

Wrapping Up

If companies want to take a position in the crushed marketing world, then they need to focus on aligning their brand’s marketing practices with customer’s expectations.

Streamlining the customer’s journey gives a positive impression that drives repeated sales, more conversion; realizes a positive impact on customer support, hence fabulous retention rate and boosted revenues.

Sadia Umer
Sadia Umer works on putting together high-quality content for Replug customers to read. When she isn't writing, she can be found reading and trying random life experiments.

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