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Best Practices for Content Structuring For Omnichannel Success

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James Henry
Best Practices for Content Structuring For Omnichannel Success

Customers today want their experiences to be the same across all channels. Marketers can make it easier to meet these expectations by setting up their content in a way that makes it easy to reuse and repurpose.


With many unified content distribution channels today, customers often start, stop, and start again before making a purchase. They expect this process to be smooth. The goal of every brand, or at least it should be, is to give these customers a consistent and smooth experience at every step.


The key is to create omnichannel experiences that work well. This means that brands must offer the same experience across all channels, like websites, emails, and physical stores, and on all devices, from desktop to mobile and all the smart ones. If it's done right, customer experiences adapt to where the customer is in their journey and are the same no matter where they interact with the company.


Follow these steps to give your customers the best-unified content distribution experience possible.

 

Eliminate Silos and Construct a Truly Integrated Environment


When companies rely on legacy-based infrastructure, which the different departments of the company usually buy without taking things like open APIs into account, they will always end up with silos. Each department has its information, and the technology doesn't allow that information to flow between departments.


Today everything is digital and the content we are creating must be easily accessible digitally.  It can be used right away without any trouble. Customers will notice when it is not.


When you call a technology contact center as a customer, how often have you been asked to repeat information you have already given to another agent or even the same agent? It seems like a silly waste of time and makes the company look bad.


Construct an Integrated Multichannel Customer Relationship Management


With the right unified content distribution technology, an omnichannel approach to customer service can solve these problems and add new value to the interaction between the customer and the agent. These systems can give you further information about your customers and make it easy to collect and record that information.


It can also find and take advantage of chances to make customers happy.  Use omnichannel customer support to decrease turnaround time. Regarding customer service, response time is significant, especially given the high expectations of modern consumers.  


On the other hand, when businesses use a unified content distribution approach, customer retention sharply increases. This method works with all channels a customer might use and lets them switch between channels in the same and in other interactions.


Thanks to integrated unified content distribution channels, it is easier to give customers digital communication channels that work well and are easy to use. In the years to come, businesses that understand the benefits of unified communication platforms and offer the best omnichannel customer support will do very well.



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