Question: When should you mark steps as optional in your customer journey analytics reports?
- As soon as you build your customer journey analytics reports
- In a customer journey analytics report, only after you’ve implemented a conversion rate optimization strategy at your organization
- In a customer journey analytics report, only after you have a working hypothesis about your conversion path
- You should never mark steps as optional in customer journey analytics reports.
Explanation
Steps should be marked as optional in customer journey analytics reports only after forming a working hypothesis about the conversion path. This ensures that optional steps reflect realistic variations in how contacts progress through the funnel. HubSpot uses optional steps to account for non-linear journeys without skewing attribution or path analysis. Marking steps prematurely could misrepresent contact behavior and reduce the accuracy of insights. Optional steps help analyze alternative paths while maintaining the integrity of primary conversion tracking.
Why the other options are incorrect
Option A is too early; marking steps without a hypothesis can distort data.
Option B ties optional steps to optimization strategy, which is unnecessary for initial analysis.
Option D is incorrect because optional steps are a valid feature for modeling varied journeys.
Source for verification
HubSpot Customer Journey Analytics
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