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Matthew McDermott

How to Integrate Customer Service Into Social Media Marketing | ClickZ - 1 views

  • Social media has changed customer service from being a support function to being an extension of marketing.
  • Social media has changed customer service from being a support function to being an extension of marketing.
  • Social media has changed customer service from being a support function to being an extension of marketing.
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  • With social media, you have to win your prospects, customers, and fans with every interaction across platforms.
  • 12 Ways Social Media Enhances Customer Service
  • Gives business a human face
  • Listens to what customers are saying
  • Proactively engages with prospects and customers
  • Makes special offers
  • Answers product-related questions
  • Supplies alternative contact channel
  • Gives customers a channel to talk to each other.
  • Shares customer feedback.
  • Celebrates your customers
  • Shows customers behind the scenes
  • Provides additional product-related content.
  • Create new purchase option
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    States 12 ways social media enhances customer service. Helpful for M11 Q1.
Matthew McDermott

Utilizing Social Media for Customer Service | Social Media Today - 1 views

  • In today’s competitive landscape customer service is more important than ever, and a company’s reputation for satisfying clients has never been so vulnerable. Social Media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn can level the playing field enabling businesses of all sizes to interact directly with customers like never before.
  • The voice of the consumer has never been more powerful, or influential, and has potential to spread virally in an instant. Reacting quickly can often quell negative comments and amplify positive ones. Over 58% of tweeters who have tweeted about a bad experience, have never received a response from the offending company.
  • Companies now have the option to not only take a phone call, but take a Tweet or a Facebook post, drill down into it, see who wrote it, and respond accordingly. Of course don’t expect social media to replace you customer service department, but instead look for it to increase your overall customer satisfaction.
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  • Your customer service issues are likely to fall into one of three categories:1.    Product Issues: customers experiencing difficulty with a product or service2.    Suggestions for product or service improvements customers would like to see in the future3.    Better ways to market, sell, support or communicate with customers
  • “kill them with kindness“
  • You can measure the success of your efforts by defining metrics which reflect your overall strategy, i.e. cost saving, service improvement, etc. I would suggest starting with the following metrics:Responsiveness- Average reply time.Complaints – Is the number decreasing?Praise – Is this number increasing?Quick resolutions – Are you able to eliminate calls to customer service
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    Very helpful
Matthew McDermott

Social Media Customer Service is a Failure! Brian Solis - 0 views

  • It all starts with trust
  • Stories are the most powerful way to create & reinforce change
  • Human connections are against the grain for many businesses, but imperative for social media success
Matthew McDermott

Customer Support the Social Network Way - Social CRM Blog | CRMSocialMedia.com - 0 views

  • Consumers are more connected than ever before. Information is viral and moves at the speed of fingers and thumbs over keyboards and keypads around the world. One customer service misstep is instantly broadcasted to potentially thousands of followers, friends, blog readers, and fellow BlackBerry users.
  • Does Your Business have a Social CRM Plan? Social CRM applications put the technology in your hands to explore what people are discussing online. As a business owner or salesperson, you can use this information to develop leads that are laser-targeted, prepare campaigns that will deliver solid results, communicate with your potential audience, and develop new products and technologies that consumers are actually asking for.
  • Do you have a plan for putting this into place? Do you have the tools to gather and analyze the mountains of data that’s available to you through social networks? Do you know what to do with this information once you’ve collected it? Proper planning is vital to delivering adequate customer support through social networking.
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    great stuff for m11
Matthew McDermott

Make social media part of customer support ops: Expert - Page 1 - Information Architecture - 0 views

  • Currently, the infrastructure is just not built to accommodate social media, which leads to inconsistent information being dispensed to customers about a product or service. But, Herrell said that doesn’t mean business leaders are unaware of the value social media can play in improving customer relations because there is definitely an awareness out there.
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    this is good for the LinkedIn question if you haven't done it yet
Matthew McDermott

Social Media Support Services as Part of Brand Experience Management - 0 views

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    helpful for M11 in general
Katie Costello

Social Media and Customer Service | BBB Consumer News and Opinion Blog - 0 views

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    Includes an example for M11 Q3
Katie Costello

Case Study #2: How Lenovo Implemented Customer Service Social Media Best Practices | Fo... - 0 views

  • details on how Lenovo accomplished their social media goals!
  • they realized customers were talking about their products on 3rd party forums like notebookreview.com and thinkpads.com.
  • They felt left out of these important customer conversations. To remedy that, they took ownership and lead the customer social media interactions
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  • used a peer-to-peer customer service community
  • aligned marketing, sales, service and many other departments to accelerate changes and improvements to the customer experience
  • 20% decrease in laptop service call volumes, an increase in customer service agent productivity, a shortened product problem-resolution cycle and an increase their Net Promoter Scores. The net-net is.. a reduction in customer service support costs and an increase in sales!
  • Lenovo knew that social media could help them learn, from the customer's point-of-view, the top issues with service, product features, functions, delays in shipments-- and all from a global perspective.
  • they determined all the stakeholders and invited them to participate in the customer service social media initiative
  • invited the Legal Department to participate from the very beginning.
  • provided the disclaimers for the liability of the information posted to the site. And communnity executives collaborated with public relations and corporate communications to align all the communication strategies.
  • interdepartmental collaboration
  • Customers felt respected and listened to. Their feedback was used by the company to make better products, which reduces calls to the contact center!
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    A case study of how Lenovo used Social Media to help with their customer service practices. A good example for the M11 LinkedIn question.
Katie Costello

Five Challenges Social Media Will Bring to Business - David Armano - Harvard Business R... - 0 views

  • So where does it live? Is it a department? Do organizations hire a "Chief Social Officer" much like they would a Chief Technology Officer?
  • companies are going to have to upgrade their HR protocols, as well as legal. And it's likely to be a never-ending process as new technologies continually hit the scene.
  • Organizations will not only need to update guidelines but actually train their people who may be leveraging social technologies for work. Customer service in particular comes to mind.
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    Doesn't give a specific case study, but is a good starter point for the LinkedIn question this week for M11
Leah Mosher

Seven Tools for Your 2012 Marketing and Communication Plans - 0 views

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    Not for an assignment, but this article offers some interesting predictions for 2010 and things to consider for social media marketing
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