SOCIAL CUSTOMER SERVICE REIMAGINED
Millennials are the largest customer set in the United States; in fact, they are supposed to dominate the market in 2017 as per Forbes. As they often tend to spread their opinion of things they experience and also reach out to friends before purchasing anything, they demand seamless customer support.
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At least from the past 2 years or so, social media not only is a platform used for brand marketing, but it is also extensively used for customer service. According to Q2 2016 Social Sprout Index, approximately 35% of customers preferred social media for customer service than traditional channels like phone and email. Facebook and Twitter are seen as the most important contact center for customers.
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Fedex, DHL, UPS, Royal Mail and Blue Dart are the top 5 courier delivery businesses of the world. As their services are used by brands and people alike, customer service is anything but critical for them. To understand which courier brand provided superior customer service, an analysis was done for each brand. Using their Facebook and Twitter profiles, these brands were studied on parameters such as:
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The volume of conversations customers have with brands on social media increases each year. While most brands know what to say to a customer’s query, few know how to. To clarify, we intend to highlight the way a brand sounds while conversing with a customer online. While replying to a customer, some brands mistakenly sound too formal and robotic. Sounding anything but warm or friendly isn’t the best approach when conversing with customers online.
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As per Econsultancy, 72% of the customers expect a response of their query on social media within one hour. This expectation can be fulfilled only when you prioritize customers to give out responses.
It is a much spoken about fact that all customers are important. However, when a company has many customers to engage with, each with different importance, it becomes challenging as to who to engage with first. In case you too are scratching your head wondering how to prioritize customers in social media, here are a few parameters that should be considered:
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Responding to customers online is a challenging job as a brand’s response might not always be what the customer wants to hear. However, proper training helps your social media agents respond to customers in a satisfactory and fair manner. It is said that learning happens either by one’s own mistakes, or by paying attention to those of others. Keeping this in mind, we have gathered from across the globe a few examples of how social customer care response should not be done. With this, you know how to train your agents.
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Socially responsive brands create happy customers. Every brand knows this and those who don’t are living under a rock. Social media is all about speed, fast likes, fast answers and faster resolutions. If a post is unanswered for a couple of hours it fizzles off and a new latest takes its place. Customers are forming opinions based on how responsive a brand is. The choice is simple — quick or dead.
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