24 Mar 2023 • Rédigé par Batch
Emails, push notifications, mobile apps… Marketing professionals have many channels at the tip of their fingers to reach customers. But that doesn’t mean you should view the user experience in isolation. Instead, choose an omni-channel customer experience to retain and engage your audience, that way, users won’t feel frustrated, and your sales will increase.
While brands have deployed the multi-channel strategy (also known as silo marketing) for a long time, and the practice is still widespread, it is not particularly effective nowadays. A multi-channel approach entails using different channels separately, not in a coordinated manner. It means you can’t maximise the quality of customer engagement, which can leave users feeling frustrated and result in a potential loss of revenue
A cross-channel strategy builds on multi-channel marketing. It’s about having a distribution channel where all channels are used in a complementary manner throughout the customer journey.
An omni-channel strategy goes further than multi-channel and cross-channel marketing as it is omnipresent and simultaneous. For example, a customer can use their phone while being physically in a store.
It is a marketing approach that uses several physical or digital channels in a complementary manner to create a coherent, unified experience for your customers.
Marketing professionals can therefore take advantage of all their physical or digital distribution channels:
The aim is to streamline the customer experience and create strong ties between brands and customers for guaranteed retention and visibility.
Your customers will thank you With this strategy, customers will benefit from a true omni-channel journey. For example, they can:
An omni-channel strategy is probably the best suited to boost the return on investment (ROI) for your marketing. In practice, there are several advantages. You can:
Adopting an omni-channel strategy means more sales. HubSpot showed in its latest study, “The State of Customer Service in 2020”, that brands that embrace an omni-channel strategy secure customer retention rates of 89% vs 33% for brands that do not use omni-channel marketing.
An omni-channel strategy can create a strong synergy between the channels used, ideal for boosting customer engagement. Now it’s over to you!
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