They're probably also familiar with the fact that most consumers will pay more for a great experience. But how do you improve the experience of a customer that is not at all engaged with your brand?

After all, so much of customer experience is about the relationship an organisation has with its customers. And you simply can't build (or even maintain) a relationship in silence.

This is where you need the six superpowers of digital communication. Utilised properly, digital communication can be used to transform a disengaged customer into an engaged one.

Here are the six superpowers of digital communication:

1. Initiating a conversation

How do you reach customers who are not thinking about your brand? The answer is to use digital communication to plant the seeds that lead to engagement, and then to take the disengaged customer on a journey that leads to a fully engaged customer.

The quickest way of doing so is to provide relevant and useful information that gets the customer to think about your brand.

2. Stitching journeys together

Managing customer journeys relies on a combination of channels to move customers from the beginning to the end of the journey.

Many of these journeys take the customer from a synchronous engagement (where the customer is actively engaging with a channel in your ecosystem) to the point where they have to break out to another channel (such as filling out a form) or return to the process at another time.

Digital communication helps to stitch these journeys together and engage the customer asynchronously (when the customer is not actively engaged within your ecosystem). It also enables you to nudge them back to where they left off and help them re-enter the journey.

3. Building relationships

Building relationships goes far beyond offering a great product or service. Organisations need to speak to their customers. It's not possible to build a relationship in silence.

Your customers are constantly being wooed by competitors, so you need to show that you care and, perhaps even more importantly, you need to provide value. Organisations also need to equip customers to make good decisions (beyond products and services).

4. Driving digital adoption

When someone isn't using a channel, for example, it's important to find a logical entry point (possibly through their statements or invoices) into the portal so that they see the benefits of that channel.

Just because you built it, does not mean customers will use it. You have to actively drive the adoption of digital channels; and digital communication puts these capabilities right in front of the customer.

5. Encouraging a set of behaviours

Digital communication can provide the information and tools that drive customer behaviour in the right direction. Remember, the goal is to create an engaged and profitable customer.

Things like reminders, notifications and relevant information help to create an engaged customer. You cannot change the behaviour of a disengaged customer.

6. Creating convenience

In a world where customers can access virtually anything they want at their fingertips, the last thing they want is to jump through hurdles. It's imperative, therefore, that you don't make them work to use your services.

Using digital communication, your organisation can create a layer of convenience for your customer. Pushing the right communication (secure, personalised and interactive experiences) to your customer eliminates the need for them to break out of their day, resulting in increased engagement.

These experiences can be used to prompt the consumer to take the next step and direct them to the most relevant channel.

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