Beth Dockins, Director of Customer Service for Scott’s Miracle-Gro, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss Scotts approach to social media customer service, social media “tribes”, and how the Scotts brand has evolved to becoming an informational and educational company for lawn and garden owners. Read on for some of the highlights [...]
The Taylor Swift Guide to Creating Compelling Content
I am a huge Taylor Swift fan. Okay, granted, I’m not a huge fan of a lot of her music, but I am a fan of how she connects with her fans. Like many successful rock stars, Taylor purposely hunts down her most passionate fans, and creates amazing experiences for them. She endlessly shows her fans [...]
How to Turn Social Connections Into In-Person Sales
Alix Hart, Brand Marketer at Best Buy, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss integrating social into all aspects of customer service and battling the “showroom” effect as a brick-and-mortar retailer. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to the full podcast. Please Support Our Sponsors Huge thanks to our amazing [...]
15 Important Tips To Help You Keep Your Customers
You’re about to have many insightful statistics and research thrown your way, but before you dig in, let’s put the most important data point front and center: According to the Harvard Business School, increasing customer retention rates by 5 percent increases profits by 25 percent to 95 percent. This is important to consider when evaluating your own [...]
Leveraging Your Company’s Internal Power for Good Social
Sonny Gill, Social Media Manager at U.S. Cellular, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss social media strategy on the regional level, competing with the big dogs, and maintaining a level of excellent customer service using social and traditional strategies side by side. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to [...]
Why Reputation Management Should Be Your Top Marketing Priority
You’ve spent years building your business. You’ve invested time, sweat, and tears. You’ve missed dance recitals and soccer games as you’ve toiled to create it. You finally feel as though you can relax… until the day when the phone calls stop, the new customers vanish, and you can’t understand why. You’re still providing excellent service [...]
How to Maximize Your Customer Service on Twitter
Twitter is the new channel all brands should be using to provide customer support. It allows you to provide near real-time support on a social platform, making your services more accessible and allowing other consumers to see that you are a customer-centric brand. However, it is important to monitor your performance for this channel in [...]
Has Social Media Made Your Sales Team Obsolete?
Maybe it’s true that “video killed the radio star”, but has social media snuck up and killed the salesman behind our backs? Jim Farley, VP of Global Marketing & Sales for Ford Motors seems to think that on some level, social media has killed the sales person as we know him (or her). Here’s what he [...]
KLM’s Social Flight of Fancy
Let’s face it, we’re in an industry that consumes case studies like a daily farmer’s market special – we want them fresh, ripe off the tree, and filled with juice. We crave details and behind-the-scenes content as we navigate a rapidly changing landscape. So when we see a substantial and comprehensive case study from the [...]
Social Pros 27 – Jeremiah Owyang and Rebecca Lieb
This is Episode 27 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Jeremiah Owyang and Rebecca Lieb from the Altimeter Group. Read on for insights from Jay Baer plus Eric Boggs’s Social Media Stat of the Week (This week: 76% of CMOs think that social has a measurable impact on sales and social data impacts decisions for 89% of CMOs.)
