Let’s do a little imagination exercise. Let’s pretend you’re in the market for a new car. You go down to the auto dealership, and instead of going into the showroom to talk to a sales representative, you go into the dealership service department and just order every single part that goes into the model of car you want.

Is that how we buy automobiles? Seems a little absurd, huh?

A few days later...

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What if you got all of your customers together in the same room so they could compare their experiences with each other. How many of them would share the same experience?

A Big Mac tastes the same in Paris, France, as it does in Paris, Texas, because McDonalds has a standard. It doesn’t matter who is at the counter or who is on the grill. Your experience as a customer should be the same. Customers want consistency, they want to know what they can expect.

If you can’t articulate your customer’s journey when buying from ...

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