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Friday Five: Ways to Scale Your Customer Service With Social Media

A social media marketer I spoke with at a conference described her small business’ social customer service processes like this: When a complaint came in she would shout downstairs to the single customer service person, and they would work together to resolve the customer’s issue.

But large companies obviously need to do more than “shout downstairs.” Today, a majority of customers have used social media for customer service issues. And as more customers take their complaints online, scaling customer service capabilities to meet hundreds or thousands of complaints a day…

Integrating Customer Service Into Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Organizations often cite fear that conversation will turn negative as the number one obstacle holding them back from engaging online. But in fact the percentage of social media users who are “all negative” is tiny: just 7% of the U.S. general population, according to Colloquy. The reality is that users who talk about bad brand experiences online are almost as likely (40%) to talk up a positive experience – if they have one.

Social customer service creates a unique opportunity for organizations to turn a customer with a bad experience into a social media advocate. But fe…

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