Customer Journey

Definition

A euphemism for the tortuous path a person takes from not knowing your product exists to finally buying it out of sheer exhaustion. Marketers map it out like it's the Oregon Trail, except instead of dysentery, customers die of pop-up fatigue.

Example Usage

"We've mapped the entire customer journey and it turns out most people get lost somewhere between awareness and giving us money."

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owned media

Marketing channels you control directly, like your website, blog, or email list, as opposed to rented space on platforms that could change their algorithms tomorrow. It's the digital equivalent of owning versus renting, with similar arguments about long-term value.

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Intermediate

attribute

In marketing analytics, the act of giving credit to specific touchpoints in a customer's journey for making them finally open their wallet. It's like trying to determine which of your 47 advertisements actually convinced someone to buy, except everyone on your team has a different answer. Attribution modeling is where data science meets office politics.

📣 Marketing / Advertising

Beginner

pay per click

An advertising model where advertisers pay a fee each time their ad is clicked, commonly used in search engine marketing. Abbreviated PPC, it's a system where you literally pay for attention one click at a time.

📣 Marketing / Advertising

Intermediate

competitive conquest

Marketing strategies targeting your competitors' customers directly, often by bidding on their brand names in search ads or comparing products head-to-head. The polite term for poaching.

📣 Marketing / Advertising

Intermediate

contextual targeting

Placing ads based on the content of the page rather than the user's browsing history, making a surprising comeback now that cookies are endangered. It's targeting ads like it's 1999, except now algorithms read the pages instead of humans.

📣 Marketing / Advertising

Beginner

snackable content

Bite-sized marketing content designed for rapid consumption during micro-moments, because modern attention spans measure in seconds. The content equivalent of gas station jerky.

📣 Marketing / Advertising

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