halo

HALO is our fancy acronym for our approach to solving issues throughout the customer journey.

It stands for Heuristic Automation and Lifecycle Optimization. Once we have identified and prioritized the issues, we develop a thesis.

We test it, optimize it, scale it, and when possible, automate it. HALO allows for continuous improvement.

HEURISTIC

HEURISTIC: involving or serving as an aid to learning, discovery, or problem-solving by experimental and especially trial-and-error methods.

AUTOMATION

AUTOMATION: automatically controlled operation of an apparatus, process, or system by mechanical or electronic devices that take the place of human labor.

LIFECYCLE

LIFECYCLE: a series of stages through which something (such as an individual, culture, or manufactured product) passes during its lifetime.

OPTIMIZATION

OPTIMIZATION: an act, process, or methodology of making something (such as a design, system, or decision) as fully perfect, functional, or effective as possible.

AUDIENCE ALCHEMY®

Audience Alchemy® is Science and Magic’s proprietary research methodology. It uses a simple but powerful approach to identify which areas of the customer experience we need to address.

This helps our clients monitor and prioritize where they apply their resources. It is based on the same methodology used in Net Promoter Score measurements.

Net Promoter Score is a globally accepted measure of brand health that asks once simple question – how likely is it that you would recommend this company to a friend or colleague?

We have extended the Net Promoter Score approach across the entire customer journey to move beyond measuring advocacy – with a simple 12 question survey we deploy to your customers and the market.

Not only can we help you understand how your company is performing in the eyes of the market, and your customers – we can also measure competitor performance.

Audience Alchemy® gives executives and marketers a clear view of how customers believe your company is performing across every stage of the customer journey at a single glance.

This is how we prioritize our focus, and how we begin to address each individual dimension of your customer lifecycle.

CUSTOMER JOURNEY ANALYTICS

Customer experience management can be like trying to drink the ocean through a straw. So first, we divide it up into phases.

We call these the 12 Dimensions of the Customer Journey. These phases, or something very close to them, tend to exist in every company.

We map how your company performs in each dimension. Anything that dips into the negative, we will want to address.

Now we know where our customers think we are doing well, and some other areas that need immediate attention. 

We can also survey and map your competitors, so you can see how your company is under or over performing in each dimension.

You can map multiple competitors, multiple audiences, or even multiple data sources, like web, CRM or ecom data.

GETTING STARTED

We typically begin our engagements in one of the following areas, depending on how much of this work may already exist within an organization. We do not always need to go through each of these exercises, but we do need them to be documented, as each one is dependent on the last.

We cannot build campaigns to drive customer experiences without knowing what our strategy is on that front. We can’t deliver optimal experiences without knowing what our distribution plans look like. If we have no content to distribute, that is a problem. We need to understand brand strategy in order to produce relevant content, and our brand strategy relies on the overall business strategy of the organization . It is all inter-dependent.

BUSINESS STRATEGY

We start at the beginning. If our clients do not have a solid business strategy in place – a vision, mission, values, goals, action plans … we help them create one to clarify path forward. 

CONTENT STRATEGY

Having a documented content strategy that is integrated with and serves our brand strategy is a critical component of any marketing effort. Digital marketing doesn’t work – without content.

BRAND STRATEGY

Brand strategy is dependent on business strategy. Understanding the brand and how it is positioned, what we promise our customers, and how we show up in the market is critical.

DISTRIBUTION STRATEGY

Content just sits there. How will we distribute content, how frequently, and to whom? How will we deal with feedback and engagement?

CX STRATEGY

CX strategy allows us to begin to dig into very specific areas of the company, one by one, to begin to optimize each phase of the lifecycle. 

CAMPAIGN DEVELOPMENT

Campaigns are generally designed to solve for problems identified in specific areas of the customer journey. Test. Optimize. Scale.