Customer Journey Explained
This is a visitor who’s first tracked arrival to Dr. Peterson’s site was 18 days ago. They came back 4 times from different sources each time. Stayed on pages scrolled, clicked buttons, clicked to call, and submitted forms. All of this was tracked.
Arrival Source: Google (organic)
1st Session: 18 days ago
Session Duration: 6:25
Customer Journey – Session 1
User searches Dr. Peterson via any number of keywords in Google. User flow gives us a general idea of what they likely used to search, Breast Implant and Augmentation.
Home – 1st page
They go to the implant and augmentation page.
Breast Implant and Augmentation – 2nd page
They go to the implant and augmentation page.
Specials – 3nd page
They hop over to the “What’s happening this month” page, Dr Peterson’s monthly specials page. Stays about 28 seconds.
Implant and Augmentation – 4th page
They go back to the implant and augmentation page. Stays about 44 seconds.
Breast Implant – 5th page
Comes to the breast implant page and starts to interact with the gallery. Stays about 48 seconds.
Gallery – 6th page
Arrives at the main gallery and goes to the breast augmentation section. Stays 2:47 and views 14 before and after cases.
Home – 7th page
Finally comes back to the homepage, scrolls the entire page and ends their session.
END OF 1st SESSION
Customer Journey – “The Space Between”
This is the part of the customer journey you have little control over. This visitor is talking to friends, family, co-workers, running into ads both online or off, talking to other doctors. This person could simply look in the mirror and think of the 7 cases they just looked at on Dr. Peterson’s website. You have little control but you can influence. This is where must maintain your marketing strategy.
Customer Journey – Session 2
This is an extremely encouraging sign. The same user came back! They didn’t even use a search engine. They either knew your domain or bookmarked you page. You are now top of mind for this patient. The biggest high five of them all is they submit a contact form!
This visit also clearly demonstrates how statistics and data can sometimes get things wrong. All of the metric tracking methods used on this website all returned a time on site for this user as 13:24. But was their visit really that long? I would say no judging by their last tracked event at 2:19. That means there are over 11 minutes of dead time that other standard tracking methods do not account for.
Arrival Source: Direct
2nd Session: 15 days ago
Session Duration: 13:24
Home – 1st page
They hop over to the “What’s happening this month” page, Dr Peterson’s monthly specials page. Stays about 28 seconds.
Contact Us – 2nd page
They go back to the implant and augmentation page. Stays about 44 seconds.
Thank You – 3rd page
Comes to the breast implant page and starts to interact with the gallery. Stays about 48 seconds.
Customer Journey – “More Space Between”
This is the part of the customer journey you have little control over. This visitor is talking to friends, family, co-workers, running into ads both online or off, talking to other doctors. This person could simply look in the mirror and think of the 7 cases they just looked at on Dr. Peterson’s website. You have little control but you can influence. This is where must maintain your marketing strategy.
Customer Journey – Session 3
This visit illustrates some of the inconsistencies in reporting you can encounter. There are many things we have no control over from the user side. We have no control over if they pick up the phone and call vs clicking to call on a mobile device. Users clicking to call can be tracked as an event. Users that manually dial the phone number they see can only be tracked via a tracking telephone number.
Further we don’t know why they went directly to the thank you page. It could be the last page they had open in a browser, it could be the last URL they went to that auto filled in the browser. We do know scrolled the page.
Arrival Source: Direct
2nd Session: 14 days ago
Session Duration: A Few Seconds
Customer Journey – “Even More Space Between”
This is the part of the customer journey you have little control over. This visitor is talking to friends, family, co-workers, running into ads both online or off, talking to other doctors. This person could simply look in the mirror and think of the 7 cases they just looked at on Dr. Peterson’s website. You have little control but you can influence. This is where must maintain your marketing strategy.
Customer Journey – Session 4
Again the user searched for Dr. Peterson via any number of keywords in Google and arrived at the website. This session shows us a few areas that we can improve the website and tracking. First, the user is clicking through 3 pages before they finally arrive at the area of the gallery they are trying to get to. Even though this is not a roadblock to this user, putting a direct link to the specific part of the gallery they are looking for would result in the user getting where they want to go faster. Another thing that needs to be improved is the unnamed events. There are a few unnamed events that were tracked. These events could be anything and only by going through the code on the page can you identify the unnamed event and name it. This is done through Google Tag Manager.
Arrival Source: Google (organic)
2nd Session: 2 days ago
Session Duration: 10:38
Home – 1st page
The user arrives at the homepage, scrolls about 25% down the page and clicks on the implants and augmentation page again. These are clear signs this user is extremely interested in Implants and Augmentation.
Main Gallery – 2nd page
They scroll 10% down the page and clicks the breast gallery link.
Breast Main Gallery – 3rd page
They scroll 10% down the page and clicks the breast lift gallery link.
Breast Lift Gallery – 4th page
This is the gallery page that contains before and afters photos of breast lifts. They go through 1 pages that contain 2 cases on the page. This user looked at 2 before and after cases. From there they click the breast augmentation gallery link.
Breast Augmentation Gallery – 5th page
The goes through 6 gallery pages with 2 cases on each page. Total they looked at 12 before and after cases. They leave the page by clicking the contact us button.
Contact Us – 6th page
They scroll 75% of the contact us page and click back to the service page.
Main Service – 7th page
They scroll 75% down the page and click two unnamed events. and finally click the Facebook link taking them to Facebook.
Customer Journey – Conclusion
In this example you see how a prospective customer finds your website, their interaction with the website and how your marketing efforts can influence their decision making. The user has no tracked linkage from a Facebook ad, or paid search ad. That doesn’t necessarily mean those types of ads didn’t influence this customer. They could have seen a billboard, or video ad and gone to google and started with their own search. You can only evaluate your overall marketing campaigns by analyzing multiple customer journeys over an extended period of time.