Customer Service: Your Place in history Leading the Social Customer Interaction

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Who should lead the social customer interaction? Some say PR and Marketing. My vote is for Customer Service. Why? Customer service is where the brand is interacting with the brand. It's where customers are giving feedback to the company about its products and services... That information is gold to a company if they know how to use it.

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Your Place in History: Social Media &

Customer ServiceYour Role In The

Transformation of Business As We Know ItBy

Dr. Natalie L. Petouhoffwww.drnatalienews.com

@drnatalie

Customer Service has been taking care of consumers for decades…

• Monitoring• Responding• Reacting • Solving• Resolving and• Using customer

feedback.

Listening to Customer conversations:

Now take customer service and add social media...

What’s really new?

What’s the Opportunity

for YOU?

History give us perspective to see future opportunities…

Source: http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/cat_dell.html

Dell Hell… started with a post and…

“DELL SUCKS. DELL LIES. PUT that in Your Google and smoke it…”

And gained momentum…

And it grew… Dwight Silverman, reporter from Houston Chronicle, Calls Dell :

“Dell monitors forums, but its policy is not to respond. Contact us directly.”

Jeff says: I did. There’s a loop-hole repair/return policy that leaves customers unsatisfied

2005

Dell Lies To Customers

And led to dedicated haters…

Source: http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/cat_dell.html

What was social media?

Go back in time…People were predicting this…

There would beA place in time

Where the customer would in charge of the message …

And there would be an enabling technology

We are here now…

This is your opportunity…

Go back further…Many scholars advocated: listen to customers, employees, partners…

Dell’s recovery: Phase 1A Blog•One-way communication push

•Moderated Postings and comments

Dell Ideastorm.com today…

Their employees some of them had suggested this

As an engineer at GM… I thought…

Dell’s CAP Mtgs

Bringing Lovers and

Haters of the brand together

to learn:“What would be better if…”

Customer Advisory Panel

Dell’s Social Media

CommandListening and responding to

the social networks…

22,000 daily Topics, posts…

Not including twitter…

They look for sentiment, share of voice, geography, and trends.

Dell’s Social Media ROI$6.5 million in sales via links from one of its Twitter

WHY SHOULDYOU CARE?

What’s the business case for social media customer service?

Social Media is

Exploding

Source: www.flickr.com/photos/grundlepuck/182445397/

4 out 5 Americans Use Social Media

•Blogs•Twitter•Consumer reviews

• amazon.com. yelp, citysearch

•Social networking sites• myspace, facebook, LinkedIn

•Photo sharing sites• flickr

•Video sharing sites• you tube, hulu

•Online forums and communitiesMashable.com

Of Bloggers post opinions about products & brands

37%Mashable.com

of those users blog or tweet daily

54%Mashalbe.com

of consumers trust peer recommendationsMashable.com

78%

What’s new? NOT customer upset.The customer now influences one to many… The impact? Companies must listen…

Source: FastCompany.com and BusinessWeek.com

Does word of mouth Matter? Ask Tony and Alfred…

What’s given fuel to the fire?The press has taken up the cause…

Source: FastCompany.com and BusinessWeek.com

Customer uses social media to vent their frustration…

Ands the story ends up on CNN… Wolfe Blitzer’s…The Situation Room…

Source: Youtube.com and CNN.com

It‘s very public…It demands:•Authenticity•Genuine•Direct Communications

We have a perfect storm that is super charging change…

Customers with higher expectations

The attention of mass media

Customers with new tools to complain

No way to control the conversation…

What is social media?

Where to begin?

How can we think of social media in the context of business?

Can social mediai.e., feedback become a business asset?

An example… ROI of social media

Customer Service began listening….•Heard what her customers were saying

•It was not always positive – and was stopping sales! •Gathered screenshots

•Put them in a powerpoint

•Gave them to her CEO

Customer Service took charge of the social customer interactions...

The CEO appointed her the lead on social

customer interactions…

…the results were a complete business transformation…Absent of:

Politics and resistance “Not invented here” or “not

my problem”

Social media lead to transformation of:Engineering, Product

Development, QAFulfillment, Order

Management,Marketing, Sales and

Advertising

Chalk it up to the “Witness” factor

ROI? Reduction in call volume

Superusers answer customer questions

Increase positive sentimentIncrease in positive word of mouthCustomers become marketersIncrease in sales

New product linesSpecific products based on customer’s wants

Customer Service

Service / Support

Sales

R&DPR/

Marketing

Note to self: All social conversations have value

Dr. Natalie’s ROI Methodology

Benefitsto

business

Coststo

implement

Ability to

execute

ROI

ROI = Gains – Costs x 100 Costs

BenefitsDecrease Support Costs

Increase effectiveness of Self-Service Increase effectiveness of Agent Assisted Service

Increase Product Ideation Reduces “Broken/Doesn’t Work” call volume

Improve natural SEO of website Reduction in paid search

Increase in revenue Higher customer satisfaction/loyalty = higher

customer lifetime value Buy more; don’t disconnect the service; go

elsewhere

What is the opportunity

for you?

Rodney Dangerfield Affect

Step Up to The Plate…Take Charge of the Social Customer Interactions

1. Learn about social media and enterprise 2.02. Listen to your customers3. Capture what they are saying4. Present the information to executives5. Be ready with an executable strategy and

plan

THANK YOUDr. Natalie L. Petouhoff

Take Your Place

In History

!!!www.drnatnews.comtwitter.com/drnatalie

@drnataliewww.drnatalienews.com310-910-1542

Link to the Social Media ROI videos:http://www.drnatalienews.com/blog/did-u-see-the-videos-on-the-roi-of-social-media

Curious about The ROI of

Social Media?

*Artwork by Joe Bertelli

Link to white papers on the ROI of Social Media:http://www.drnatalienews.com/blog/roi-of-social-media-white-papers-by-dr-natalie-petouhoff

DR. NATALIE L. PETOUHOFF

#SMB_LA #SMWLA @DrNatalie

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About the AuthorDr. Natalie, a USC Adjunct professor and President of Social Media Club Los Angeles, former Forrester Analyst, an Agency executive, and management consultant, is an accomplished keynote speaker, quoted expert and featured guest expert on TV and radio..

Dr. Natalie helps companies understand how social media affects the bottom-line and to create strategies that provide real business value. She does this by benchmarking your "As Is" and compares it to your "Could Be" via best practices. With this insight, you can create a world-class social media and digital presence.

You’ll be well-armed to devise a social media strategy and tactical roadmap, track your progress, gather the right metrics to transform into a social media ROI analysis, articulate the business case, and justify the plan to upper management.

Reach out to her: @drnatalie www.drnatalienews.com

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