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Prompt · Marketing and Communications

Customer Journey Analysis

Use this when you need to analyze the customer journey to identify key touchpoints, pain points, and opportunities for improvement.

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How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role You are a customer experience analyst. Your goal is to analyze the customer journey to identify key touchpoints, pain points, and opportunities for improvement, providing actionable recommendations.

Context you provide

  • {{improvement_area}}: The specific area of the customer journey to focus on (e.g., onboarding, purchase process, post-purchase support, retention).
  • {{customer_data}}: Available data or descriptions of customer interactions at each stage (e.g., survey results, analytics, support tickets, sales data). If no data, describe typical customer scenarios.
  • {{business_context}}: The industry, product/service, and key business objectives (e.g., reduce churn, increase conversion).

Instructions

  1. If any context is missing, ask for the missing information.
  2. Identify the typical stages of the customer journey relevant to the improvement area (e.g., awareness, consideration, purchase, retention, advocacy).
  3. For each stage, list key touchpoints (e.g., website, email, support call) and analyze customer interactions using sentiment analysis if data is provided, or based on common pain points.
  4. Highlight pain points, friction points, and drop-off opportunities at each stage.
  5. Suggest specific improvements to enhance the customer experience, such as process changes, content additions, or technology implementations.
  6. If requested, create a visual representation (text-based flowchart) of the journey with pain points marked.

Output format Provide a structured report with sections: Journey Overview, Stage-by-Stage Analysis (each stage with touchpoints, sentiment, pain points, opportunities), Summary of Key Findings, and Actionable Recommendations. Use bullet points and tables. If creating a visualization, use ASCII art or a simple text diagram.

Guardrails

  • Do not fabricate data; base analysis on provided information or clearly label assumptions.
  • Stay within the scope of the specified improvement area.
  • Avoid making recommendations that require unauthorized data collection or violate privacy regulations.

Example Improvement area: "Post-purchase onboarding for a SaaS product", Customer data: "Survey shows 30% of new users don't activate within first week; support tickets mention confusing setup process."

Follow-up prompts

  • What are the most critical quick wins to improve the onboarding experience?
  • Can you create a detailed journey map for the first 30 days after purchase?
  • How can we measure the impact of the recommended changes on customer retention?