Saturday, February 20, 2016

One Big Action to Make Your Customers Feel Great. Don't Miss This!

I would like to point out the people who are responsible for customer satisfaction. Marketing directors, managers, CMOs, customer excellence and many others, all use social media in our marketing strategy; though, we may miss something really important for our businesses.
As I am responsible for Supplementler.com’s overall marketing strategy and customer excellence. I know that social media takes a big part in this journey. If you think the same, we should all look at the statistics together. We can better clarify its potential impact into your business. Let’s see the result with statistics and reality.
Hire a Dedicated Social Customer Service Specialist: Are you using social media and getting a lots of messages with tons of questions from your prospects? Probably many of us still answer those questions slowly. Did you ever think what would happen if you hired somebody to answer the questions immediately or call the customers to talk them about their questions ?


Let him/her work on that topic clearly: Just like a real customer service, it is real to connect with customers on social media when they ask you anything through Facebook or Linkedin. If it is going to take long time to talk over the message panel, just ask for their phone and call them. This is the “Woow” effect.
So let's check out why...
What Customer Service Looks Like Today ?
Customers hate your customer service according to a study by Accenture, almost 75% of respondents cited being "extremely frustrated" when having to contact a company multiple times for the same reason.

Repercussions of Poor Customer Service


Isn't that enough? So keep reading...
Monthly Active Users of Social Networks
Social media already took its course and any brand can not live without a social character. It changed consumer behaviors and expectations. What consumers want most from your brand is great customer experiences.
If you meet their expectations, what happens is that 74
% of consumers spend more and 68% are willing to spend more.


The question is, how should social media play their role inside your customer service and why? As long as customers uses social media and want quick responses, this is one of the top reason that you have a social customer specialist in your team who fully understand the responsibility. It is an investment and you should definitely invest into this.

ROI Matters, right ?

For all those reasons above, follow four steps below to great social customer care and research more.
1.    Identify unhappy customers.
2.     Define your communication strategy to understand how to communicate on behalf of your brand.
3.     Check out your responses again to streamline it all with CRM and so forth.
4.     Evaluate yourself and optimize in real time.
Hope you enjoyed it and it makes significant change in your customer service strategy.
If you believe that your role is focusing on Customer Experience, and proud of that fact, you are working to make the customer the center of everything you do! Click to tweet -> "It is time to focus on social customer service" 
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