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About Social Pros Podcast:
Social Pros is one of the longest-running marketing podcasts in existence (10 YEARS and counting), and was recently recognized as the #1 Audio/Podcast Series by the Content Marketing Awards.
Our purpose? Making sure that we speak to real people doing real work in social media.
Listeners get inside stories and behind-the-scenes secrets about how teams at companies like Google, Reddit, Glossier, Zillow, Lyft, Marvel, and dozens more, staff, operate, and measure their social media programs. With 500+ episodes, the Social Pros Podcast brings the humanity of social media to the forefront, while providing incredibly useful marketing strategies that listeners can immediately implement.
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Alaina Maloney, Social Communications Manager for Intuit’s TurboTax, joins the Social Pros Podcast to discuss how a seasonal product can drive business year-round through social.
Building Bridges Through Listening
Building Bridges Through ListeningCreating year-round social initiatives for a seasonal product is tricky enough. Creating interest for something that many people dread adds another layer of complexity to this challenge.
Alaina has figured out how to engage her customer base during the tax off-season in a way that makes the stressful experience of filing your taxes feel effortless and fun. By listening closely and empathetically to her customers through social media, she has developed a sixth sense when it comes to knowing what they want to see in their tax software.
Through a focused internal effort, she has also built bridges between herself and departments all across the organization. By becoming the known expert on customer needs and wants, she ensures that their voice is heard and represented throughout the company.
This two-part punch of social listening and proactive networking has helped transform TurboTax into a receptive and reactive brand with a year-round presence.
In This Episode
- How an empathetic social pro can create an internal bridge for customer care
- Why successful social initiatives means close listening to your customer’s voice
- How a public forum leads to valuable customer care opportunities
- Why innovative customer programs means a startup approach and a fun, empathetic team
Quotes From This Episode
“Social is a way to connect customer care to PR.” —@alainamaloney
“Our audience on Facebook is an audience of your everyday customer, whereas our answers exchange community is a crowd of engaged experts.” —@alainamaloney
“We may only be January through mid-April seasonal business, but taxes are impacting your everyday life.” —@alainamaloney
“Targeting is an evolving area where we do our best to keep up and leverage data on customers.” —@alainamaloney
“We have a team of innovation catalysts who do a lot of experimental stuff.” —@alainamaloney
“Empowering people and their finances is something that is such a challenge in our country and across the world.” —@alainamaloney
“We’re in there to let customers know if they had a poor experience, or if they’re not happy with a certain area, that we are listening.” —@alainamaloney
Resources
- Alaina Maloney on Twitter: @alainamaloney
- TurboTax on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram, and Amazon
- TurboTax Tax Parties
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