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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.
Thank you to our sponsor ICUC Social.
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To inquire about becoming a guest, please email our Executive Producer, Leanna Pham, at leanna@convinceandconvert.com.
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Nicole van Zanten, CRO of ICUC, joins the Social Pros Podcast to discuss the trend toward one-on-one interaction in social media customer service.
Social Customer Service Is Getting Personal
Social media climates and best practices evolve with dizzying speed. Nowhere is this more true than in the realm of social media customer service, as Nicole van Zanten and the team at ICUC understand all too well.
Success metrics have changed. Marketers’ understanding of dark social has evolved. The amount of resources allocated to social teams has increased. Even the level of intimacy users expect from customer care has shifted. It’s all part of a trend toward less public, broadcast-oriented social and more personal, one-on-one social.
In this episode, Nicole walks us through the user behaviors contributing to these trends and advice for riding the wave of shifting customer expectations. She also shares examples from the ICUC playbook, including stand-out moments of above-and-beyond social care.
In This Episode
- 05:18 – How the arena for customer engagement has changed in the past three years.
- 08:06 – Why more and more brands are strategizing around dark social.
- 15:25 – How agency-run social media management works for brands in highly regulated industries.
- 29:32 – The social media success metrics that matter most to brands right now.
- 06:39 – How ICUC manages around-the-clock social media customer service for brands around the world.
- 18:26 – A social media customer service victory that touched Nicole’s heart.
Quotes From This Episode
“Social was stuck at the coordinator level for so long. Now we’re seeing social directors and VPs of social.” – @nicolevanzanten
Clients are focused no longer on vanity metrics, but engaged fans. Click To Tweet
“No, we’re not spending millions of dollars making little surprise and delights happen, but they happen every single day.” – @nicolevanzanten
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