Customer Journey

The sequence of touchpoints and experiences a customer has with a firm over time, across channels and media.
What it is
Lemon and Verhoef describe customers who now meet firms at many touchpoints across many channels and media, with experiences that increasingly happen in social settings, and note that delivering a good experience means coordinating several business functions.
In effect
The article on the AIDA model uses it as the later, many-path account that follows the ladder and the funnel.
What it does not say
It is a way of describing and managing experience, not a tested effect. It does not prescribe a single route that every customer follows.
Sources
- Lemon, K. N., & Verhoef, P. C. (2016). Understanding customer experience throughout the customer journey. Journal of Marketing, 80(6), 69-96.