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 [...]
How Social Media and Smartphones Breed a Petri Dish of Negativity
It’s time to recalibrate your expectations about customer complaints. 57% of Americans will have a smartphone this year, meaning that the majority of your customers (and in some industries, the vast majority) now possess two things, at all times, in their pants: Access to almost the entirety of the world’s knowledge Several different mechanisms to [...]
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 [...]
4 Customer Service Lessons from the Biggest Brands on Twitter
As we learned a few months ago in a recent release of The Social Habit (a social media research project that Jay is working on with Tom Webster, Mark Schaefer, and Jason Falls), customers have high expectations of brands using social to address customer service issue. In fact, 42% of customers expect a response time of [...]
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 [...]
Social Pros 18 – Ike Pigott, Alabama Power
This is Episode 18 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Ike Pigott of Alabama Power. Read on for insights from Ike, and our Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: 16% of CEOs are active in social media). Listen Now Click the play button to listen here: [...]
The Fallacy of Round the Clock Social Media
Guest post by Chris Hall an interactive content specialist at Off Madison Ave who specializes in writing for humans, not robots. It’s 11PM and the world around you is getting ready for bed. As a mobile obsessive, you instinctually check your Facebook, Twitter and all the rest of your social media accounts while you brush [...]
4 Keys to Turning Negative Commenters Into Brand Advocates
Guest post by Chris Book, CEO and co-founder of ChatterPlug, a live customer engagement and analytics platform. Nobody likes being told something negative about themselves. It stings, and as a business owner or manager, you immediately start kicking yourself for the missed opportunity. The key to surviving, however, is to embrace these negative comments for [...]
Customer Stalking – When Is Your Twitter Response Too Fast?
Guest post by Neicole Crepeau, an Online Strategist at Coherent Interactive. She blogs at Coherent Social Media. The other week, I was participating in Jay’s hashtagsocialmedia.com chat on social media. (It takes place every Tuesday at noon EST.) The exchange is below: @jaybaer #sm107 BONUS Q4. How important is speed of response on Twitter? And [...]
Why Social CRM Needs to Be Less About the Social and More About the Customers
Today’s guest post is by Kevin Troy Darling, Social Media Program Manager at iLinc Web Conferencing, who has been writing all his life, but only marketing pays. To paraphrase Tina Turner, we don’t need another acronym. The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. We have many good tools at our disposal [...]
