Customer Experience: Creating Customer Personas

Customer Experience: Creating Customer Personas

21mIntermediate2022-02-02

Authors

Myra Golden

Myra Golden

Author, Trainer, Keynote Speaker

Course details

In today’s competitive marketplace, knowing your customer is almost as important as knowing your own products and services. With limited marketing budgets and competition for consumer’s attention, you need to optimize your message to target people who are most likely to drive sales. In this course, Myra Golden shows you how to create customer personas that will allow you to better connect with your customers and improve engagement. She shares important tips like how to conduct research, how to identify your customers’ motivation and pain points, and ways to apply persona data for engagement, support, and problem resolution. By following her step-by-step guide—along with a cheat sheet of persona templates—you’ll have the tools to create your own customer personas to help you increase sales.

Skills covered

User ResearchCustomer Service ManagementCustomer ServiceUser ExperienceDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

Introduction

  • What customer personas are and why you need them

Customer Personas - What They Are and Aren t

  • Four big mistakes with customer personas

Creating Customer Personas

  • Start with a journey map
  • Step one - Conduct research
  • Step two - Identify your customer motivations and pain points
  • Step three - Name and personify your customers

Get the Most Out of Customer Persona Research

  • The moment of truth
  • Onboard new hires using personas

Conclusion

  • Start, stop, continue exercise