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Once you\u2019ve established that your business needs a customer experience strategy, and you come up with a plan to ensure that company values reflect the importance of service-mindedness, it\u2019s not enough to simply implement activities. As with any growth methodology for marketing and sales, you need to be sure that your customer experience strategy is working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evaluating your strategy can have several different subjective and objective elements, and should be measured against KPIs that makes sense for your business and goals. But most importantly, you should be measuring the effectiveness of your customer experience<\/a> strategy during and<\/em> after the customer lifecycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why is it Important to Measure Customer Experience Strategy?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So why should you take the time and effort to measure your customer\u2019s experiences? The simple answer is to ensure that your efforts are paying off. But the more complex answer is that with so many different customer engagement<\/a> strategies in modern business running in tandem, you need to be able to have clear attribution for successes, and understand where missing pieces and gaps are in your handling of the overall customer lifecycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since we don\u2019t talk about the customer journey as a \u201cfunnel\u201d as much anymore, and can now view it as a cycle or a \u201cflywheel\u201d methodology in which we are continually engaging prospects and re-engaging customers, it\u2019s important to have clear indicators for performance for sales, marketing, customer experience, and each element that comprises those aspects of business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How Do you Measure Customer Engagement?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So maybe you understand that it\u2019s important to be measuring customer engagement, but it can be easier said than done. When it comes to customer sentiment, there are often both qualitative and quantitative measurements to take in order to get the full picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike marketing or sales where we only need to look at hard numbers like conversion rates and average purchase value, customer engagement often requires more context, and can be much more individual. Because of this, some businesses struggle to find a clear way to measure, and can be unsure of when<\/em> to measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we can do, however, is understand that as with any kind of data analysis, we need a standard or a rubric to measure against. While industry standards are still iffy since true customer engagement strategy is relatively new, you can easily use your own data to measure against to identify patterns, issues, and opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To start properly measuring customer engagement, there are a few tools you should be using.<\/p>\n\n\n\n