How Digital is Changing the Consumer Experience

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Let me give you a few real world examples that happen every day. You’re at a stop light for all of 30 seconds and you start to get antsy because the light hasn’t changed. You are going to make a right on red and there is someone in front of you who does not turn right away, and you lay on the horn. You’re in line at the store waiting to check out and it’s taking forever. Forever being about 3-4 minutes.

Why are we so impatient?

Maybe these examples will help. You’re surfing the web and a page doesn’t load quick enough so you try another website. You want to buy a product online so you do a search and you click on the first result and it doesn’t load quick enough, so you go to the second result. You load an app and it takes forever (10 minutes) and you immediately start thinking of your next computer purchase with more memory and more processor speed (whatever that means).

What’s happening here?

The web has conditioned us to want everything quicker and faster. We are become a bi-product of always on. Meaning that when we are on the web, we expect the delivery of the experience to match the level of our expectation. The result? That expectation starts to bleed into our offline universe. Our consumer experience is on hyper please

The result?

Everyone suffers. Think about it like this. The more it takes to satisfy us, the more we need- and the less it satisfies. In a sense we’re becoming junkies for a good web experience which again as I said earlier is starting to bleed into our personal offline lives. Is that a good thing? In a sense it is but it’s also unrealistic to think that waiting at a light for a whole 1-2 minutes is unacceptable. Just as it is unreasonable to think that just because it took 15 seconds for a page to load-is a bad user experience. The web experience, and I’ll include mobile in this, is now as much about the pulleys and levers as it is about the finished product. So how do people respond to a bad online customer experience? They click and go somewhere else.

Too bad for the visually appealing site that is hampered by it not possessing what the user wants- Be it access to the proper social channels, free stuff, or the right check out page, or access to a contact page that provides a direct link to customer service. If you don’t have that, you’ve crashed and burned before you’ve even taken off! Consumers indeed.

Republished with author's permission from original post.

Marc Meyer
As a Digital and Social Media strategist and CEO for Digital Response Marketing Group, Marc Meyer has been able to take technology, marketing and the world of all things digital and simplify it in a way that makes sense not only for the SMB owner, but also the discerning C-suite executive of a Fortune 500 company.

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