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Melissa BrekerContent Strategy Inc.
Mapping Content to the Customer Journey
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What’s up for today?
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What we’re talking about today
Understanding your customer
Getting it done
Content journeys
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Melissa’s Bio• Grew up wrestling
crocodiles in Australia
• Transitioned out of marketing into content strategy
• Fell in love with supporting change
Today I help change the way people think about content through teaching, mentoring, partnering with others, and running workshops.
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Company Clients
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And what about you?
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Did you know…
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“Global Insights on Succeeding in the Customer Experience Era” Oracle,, May 2013. http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/features/cx-survey/index.html.
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• 3 to 10 times click through and conversion rates
• $300 Million in margins by matching messaging to buyer journey.
“Digitizing the Consumer Decision Journey” McKinsey & Company, June 2014.
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There’s another way…
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A customer journey looks at what a person experiences at every stage of their relationship with a company.
What’s a customer journey?
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• Getting the IKEA magazine• Browsing for ideas on
ikea.com • Shopping at IKEA • Talking to IKEA staff• Building IKEA furniture • Picking up spare parts • Using IKEA furniture
What if you’re unhappy?What if you’re hungry?
In the real world…
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What’s a content journey?
A content journey shows how content strengthens the customer experience at each touch point, in each stage.
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How do you get it done?
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Getting started
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Or, educated guesses and lots of stickies.
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What is Content Strategy?
Break down silosAdaptive
Content
Behavioural
EmotionalMental
Image used with permission: Jason Travis: http://www.jasontravisphoto.com/persona/
Personas
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What is Content Strategy?
Break down silosAdaptive
Content
Behavioural
EmotionalMental
http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/the-anatomy-of-an-experience-map/
Customer journey
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What content will support Austin on his journey?
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Content mapping
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Think about…
• Content purposes• Content topics• Content messages• Content triggers
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Content purposes
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• To educate• To entertain• To inform
• To inspire• To educate• To entertain
Content purposes
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What is Content Strategy?
Break down silosAdaptive
Content
Behavioural
EmotionalMental
Content topics
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What is Content Strategy?
Break down silosAdaptive
Content
Behavioural
EmotionalMental
Decision making• What’s the best
price for the fare?
• What time will I arrive?
• What activities should I book in advance?
Advocacy• How will I share
and store my photos?
Content topics
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Brand (emotional) Product (intellectual)Content messages
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The new global phenomenon. For ages 8 and up.
Brand (emotional) Product (intellectual)Content messages
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Motivational+ Enabling
Content triggers
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Content triggers
Motivational+ EnablingHelp someone in need.Here’s how. It’s easy.
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Putting it together…
• Brainstorming• Early designs• Conceptual designs• Detailed requirements
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For every personaFor every journey stage
Brainstorming
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High-level topics & messages only. Break it down later.
Audience: Project working team
Early designs
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Audience: Project stakeholders
Conceptual designs
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Audience: ImplementersDetailed requirements
© Brain Traffic 2013
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Let’s try it…
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Persona: New momCompany: Costume retailerJourney stage 1: ResearchJourney stage 2: Advocacy
Scenario
Think about: PurposeContent topicsContent messagesContent triggers
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Persona: New momCompany: Costume retailerJourney stage 1: ResearchJourney stage 2: Advocacy
Scenario
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Persona: New momCompany: Costume retailerJourney stage 1: ResearchJourney stage 2: Advocacy
Scenario
Think about: PurposeContent topicsContent messagesContent triggers
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Persona: New momCompany: Costume retailerJourney stage 1: ResearchJourney stage 2: Advocacy
Scenario
Think about: PurposeContent topicsContent messagesContent triggers
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Scenario: New mom + online costume retailer
Research AdvocacyTopics • Costumes 6-
9 months• Safety• Cost
• Storing costumes
• Next year’s ideas
• Costume swap
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Quick wins for content mapping
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Common truthsShared experiences
Stay high level
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www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork
One personaOne journey stageOne product element
Getultra-specific
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Above all, do what you can implement
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Personas• “How To and Tools – Personas”
by Usability.gov.• “Connected UX” by Aarron
Walter August 2013.• Communicating
Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Dan Brown. 2010
Customer Journeys• “
Mapping the Journey Experience Beyond the Screen” by Jamin Hegeman/ Adaptive Path. May 2012.
• “Improving UX with Customer Journey Maps” by Jacek Samsel. May 2013.
• “Customer Journey Maps – A ‘Quick And Dirty’ Technique To Create Them” by Tomasz Czajkowski/ UsabilityGeek.com. October 2013
Resources
Unless otherwise specified on page, all photos in this presentation have creative commons license and were sourced through Flickr.
Mapping content to customer journeys, by Kathy Wagner, 2014On Slideshare: Integrating content and customer journeys, CS Inc, 2014
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