Telerx presentation in San Francisco, CA on 5-9-2013 on the role of Social Media customer interaction and engagement, plus the role of advanced analytics in leveraging voice of the customer data
From complainers to advocates social media & analytics
1. Turn Complainers into Loyal
Customers…
Using Social Media
&
Voice of the Customer
Analytics
Spencer Geren
Telerx
VP, Business
Development, Advanced
Analytics
@Spencer_G2
John MacDaniel
Telerx
Sr. Director,
Voice of the Customer
@JohnMacD1
GMA 2013 Consumer Complaints
Conference
1
2. Everyday, Every Interaction
With Every Customer is a
“Moment Of Truth”
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Are YOU making the MOST of each moment?
3. What is a Complaint?
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4. Engagement vs. Interaction
Created
content used to
encourage a
community to
engage or
comment
Listening to
your consumers
and providing a
response to
their
comment, ques
tion or
complaint
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5. Or are we creating consumer
complaints?
Are consumers coming to us with
complaints…
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7. • Once you create your page or account, there is an
expectation from the customer that their comment will
be addressed.
SOCIAL
MEDIA
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• And there is an obligation from the brand to provide
a response
9. We can only define how well we are doing when
we measure ourselves to what the consumer
expectations are…
….So what are consumers’ expectations?
56% of customer tweets to companies are
being ignored. – AllTwitter
More than 50% of Twitter users expect a
response in less than 2 hours – Attensity
Of the actionable tweets and Facebook posts a
company gets, only about 20% relate the
marketing… the rest are about service. –Genesys
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10. Within 15
Minutes
11%
Within 5
Minutes
9%
Within a few
days or so
33%
Within 30
Minutes
12%
Within 1 hour
10%
More than 1
hour, but later
same day
25%
- Edison
“In general, how soon after you contact a
brand, product, or company do you expect to
receive a response?”
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11. What’s Happening?
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61% - Potential
Interaction
87% Did interact
13% Did not interact
84% Potential Interaction
32 % Did interact
68% Did not interact
78% Of all mentions
0% No Twitter presence
94% Product Complaints
12. At what point does cost of not interacting
move brands to action?
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Your customer is an
individual person.
A single person.
And EVERY
INTERACTION
matters.
14. To move from complaint to advocacy, don’t think channel
strategy – think Consumer Engagement & Interaction strategy
1) Develop a Customer Interactions Strategy
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15. 3) Get the right people interacting with your
consumers
4) Sync everyone up on strategy, talking
points and policies
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2) Partner with the right technology
16. 5) Training
Customer Service +
Deliver Value to the Customer through Interaction =Earned Media
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Agitated
Appreciative
Passive
Ambivalent
Influencer/Advocacy
Influencer/
Detractor
Poor Interaction
No Interaction
Positive Interaction
Interaction with Purpose:
17. 6) Measure - Link metrics to your objectives so you
can measure your success.
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Customer
Experienc
e
First Post
Resolution
(FPR)
Positive
Acknowledgmen
t Response
(service
sentiment)
Percent of
Response Rate
Avg First
Response Rate
Correct Info
Provided
Tone/Quality of
Response –
Voice of Brand
18. 8) Don’t avoid the difficult conversations
7) Listen to your customer’s message... What are they
really asking?
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19. 9) Monitor beyond your page
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10) Ask if you can be of
assistance
11) Be Consistent
20. 12) Confirm you have been of
assistance.
13) Be timely.
14) Articulate expectations –
post service hours.
15) Don’t create an angry
customer where one did not
exist.
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16) Before you hit send, ask –
customer and community
perception?
21. Why should you do these things?
• Even in a negative economy, customer
experience is a high priority for
consumers, with 60% often or always
paying more for a better
experience. (Source: Harris Interactive)
• 86% of consumers quit doing business with
a company because of a bad customer
experience, up from 59% 4 years
ago. (Source: Harris Interactive)
• 89% of consumers began doing business
with a competitor following a poor
customer experience. (Source: Harris
Interactive)
• 59% will try a new brand or company for a
better service
experience. (Source: American Express)
• The top three drivers for investing in
customer experience management are:
• Improve customer retention – (42 %)
• Improve customer satisfaction – (33 %)
• Increase cross-selling and up-selling –
(32 %) (Source: Aberdeen)
• Peer recommendations are the most
trusted source for product information.
• Survey of 1000 Crowdtap site members
found:
• 70% said they tried a new product in
the last three months because a
friend or family member suggested
it, or posted about it online
• 61% did so because a friend or
family member suggested it to them
in person/by phone
• 71% of consumers use product
information from family and friends for
decision making, that’s why social
media is at the top of every Brand
Manager’s list (Source: Harris
Interactive)
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22. Consumers vs. Customers
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Analytics helps you
understand your
customers’ behaviors
Consumers are statistics… customers are real
people
Interactions moves
customers through the
path to Influence.
23. Social Media can create a magnification
effect on both sides of the spectrum…
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Evangelist
(NEG)
Ambivalent
Appreciative
Adoring
Agitated
Angry
Loyalty
Abandon
Which way are
your customer
interactions
heading?
Influencer
Advocacy
24. Social Media is a BIG world!
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26. So What is analytics?
First is starts with data
◦ Data = a measurement of something
Analytics is the discovery and
communication of meaningful patterns in
data.
◦ Valuable in areas rich with recorded information
◦ Relies on the simultaneous application of
statistics, computer programming and operations
research to quantify performance. Analytics often
favors data visualization to communicate insight.
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27. There’s no shortage of DATA!!!!
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It may look like this…
But it feels like this!!!
Every 2 days we create as much information as we did from
the dawn of time up to they year 2003.
- Eric Schmidt
28. Current business
knowledge, experience
and domain expertise
Your organization’s
data, plus social media
data, can help un-lock the
less obvious insights
about your customers’
desires, intentions and
loyalty.
What’s hiding in all that data?
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29. The Case for Connection…
AKA “Why do we need analytics?
Customer A Customer B
Seeks satisfaction but is not brand
loyal.
High influence within Social Media
and digital space.
Falls into bottom third of revenue
producing customers for your
company
Represents top 1/3 of your revenue
generating customers based on
annual spending.
Does not have Twitter or Facebook.
Limited on-line profile or influence.
True brand loyalist and offline
advocate.
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Get busy connecting consumers or get busy dying -John MacDaniel
30. “Not everything that can be counted
counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted.”
- Albert Einstein
"The greatest value of a picture is
when it forces us to notice what
we never expected to see"
-John Tukey, 1977 Exploratory Data Project
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Some important guiding principles
31. It’s all about Patterns!!!
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32. It’s all about Patterns!!!
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Yummy
Delicious
New product
Get some more
addicted
Tasty
Kid loves
it
Healthy
33. The growth of Speech analytics
Recorded
Voice
data
Social Media
Data
Call
Center
Data
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34. Analytics Using
Statistical
Methodologies:
Quantitative
observations about the
business generated
from analysis of
disparate sources of
data
Contextual Insights:
Insight drawn from
analysis that resonates
with an intimacy of the
business process.
Contextual insights rely on INTUITION
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35. So… How Do You Start?
Start small
Let questions help drive next steps
Hypothesis-Test and Confirm
Find your resources You have an Excel fanatic…
FIND THEM!
Organize your data
Add to your data
• Sales, Marketing, Weather?
• This creates interest with other stakeholders
Connect your data
Market the value of your insight to other departments for
collaboration
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36. Market Your Message Up and Through
the Organization
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More
Informatio
n
Summary
Information
Dept Mgr/
VP’s
Headline
Information
C-suite
37. Information Must Flow As Follows:
• Assemble the right insight
• Get it to the right person
• … at the right time
• …in the right format
• …so they can make the right
observation &
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TAKE ACTION!!!
38. So Where Do You Go From Here?
Remember core objectives…
Avoid what looks “COOL” and “scope creep”
Avoid making it about the “technology”
A dashboard never comes first!!!
You can’t run the water until you build the
plumbing!
If you include analytics vendors remember the first
bullet
Laser focus on the value of solving the business
problem!
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41. THANK YOU!!!
Spencer Geren
VP, Business Development, Advanced Analytics
spencer.geren@telerx.com
@Spencer_G2
--- --- ---
John MacDaniel
Sr. Director, Voice of the Customer
john.macdaniel@telerx.com
@JohnMacD1
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Editor's Notes
2 to 3 min- Spencer to lead offIntroduction John MacDanielIntroduction Spencer Geren
1 min;So here’s what we’re here to share with you…
.30 secJohn-
2 minJohn
.30 secJohn
1 minJohn
1 minJohn
2-3 minJohnThis slide will have animation
2 min.John, opensSpencer provides commentary… How do we view ourselves vs. how does the customer view us?When we look at ourselves on consumer engagement the tendency is to see the Prince. Thru the customers view we may look more like the frog.This will have animation
2 minJohn-Customers will continue to expect more. “you’d better be there”Be prepared to respond when the “CUSTOMER” expects it.Quick story about Sun/Thur and Twitter at retail…
2 minJohn-Spencer, comment This is also a great place start some analytics… We’ll cover that later.
2 minJohn-openSpencer-2/3rds CMO's want new customers. It's 5x cheaper to retain current customers than to acquire New customers.Lead with values- WOMMA Conference Nov 2012Note to self---talking points—scale with customer walking across it.
1 minJohn-NOTE THE ANIMATION!!!! One click will animate all of the images to drop in (they are timed). Once they all drop in, click again for text box.
2 min.John-It’s not about channel it’s about strategyMobile is not a separate channel…There’s Social Media, & there’s SM mobileThere’s Chat, & there’s Chat mobileThere’s FB, & there’s FB mobile
1 min, JohnDevelop a Consumer Interactions strategyGet the right people interacting with your consumersSync everybody up on strategy, talking points and policiesTrain-Provide training on Customer Service for Social. Train on voice of the brand. Train as if they were a customer service agent.Measurements – Link metrics to your objectives so you can measure your success. Listen to your customer’s message. What are they really asking?Monitor beyond your pageBe consistentAsk if you can be of assistance when uncertainty existsConfirm you have been of assistanceBe timelyArticulate expectations – post service hours Don’t create an angry customer where one did not exist.
2 min.John-Provide training on Customer Service for Social. Train on voice of the brand, as if they were a customerservice agent
2 min.John- intro set upSpencer- close w/ reference to analytics, it starts with the CUSTOMER objectives first. Work backwards from there.Measurements – Customer Service
1 minJohn-covers example
1 minJohn, monitor beyond Corp and Brand pages
1-2 minJohn- covers steps 11 thru 14
1 min. quick overview
1 min.TRANSITION point into the “why for analytics?”Spencer-while engagement is one person at a time and critical to interaction, consumers are statistics, analytics can aid in your ability to understand behavior or needs to you can better meet or ideally exceed expectations. Not about exploitation, but about learning to serve your best resource.
2 min.Spencer. Explains who pays the bill, and the unique opp to move a complainer to advocacy by leveraging a quality experience
1 minSpencer-The landscape on SM is always changing. It’s like being an astronomer studying a galaxy where the planets change names every monthJohn-It’s not about being “GOOD” at SM, Its about a quality strategy and being great at interaction
.30 secSpencer- now on to the really fun stuff…
1 minSpencer-Analytics portion kick off-Let’s think about “our data” for a minute. This is not machine output, this is a persons feedback, feeling and intentions. Their digital DNA if you will.
30 sec.Spencer-comment on slideLooks like this… but feels like this!!!2011 IDC study, unstructured data will account for 90 percent of all data created in the next decade
1 min.Spencer-We’re so busy above the water we never take the time to see what’s underneath. Customers with complaints provide that opportunity.Use the breakfast prod story about those who call after the morning. Do you see an opportunity?
2 min.Spencer- connection is critical to understanding needs en mass because you need to take care of all customers and not just the digitally active. Mention the “wired retired”John-reinforcement that the individual is what matters, not just the digital profile.Analytics can ensure there’s a connection.
1 min.Spencer-read slide
Examples of patterns…Patterns in unstructured data…
But visualization is really important!!!It about insights on data and not just the gr’aphs !!!
2 min-Leveraging the actual recorded voice call can amplify the value of traditional call center data including robust verbatim fieldsIn our tests, adding speech to text to the data mart more than double the consumer concepts expressed.Improvement in first contact resolution/ which avoids churn leading complainers back to loyalty
1 min.Spencer- remember w/out context and intuition it’s just numbersJohn-ask me a question relevant to audience. “Can analytics help me build a case for supporting the interaction steps I outlined prior?”Outline a succinct answer to this questions
2 min.Spencer- Your organization may already being doing these activities. Find out who and get close to the process. Be willing to share across departments. Share your data and others are more likely to do the same. Stay out of “silos”
Very important when your trying to build support of your management to take action…Story of guy who put actual product on the conference room table vs. a bullet point in a powerpoint presentation-The goal is to push for action… This way complainers have a chance to become loyalist again.
1 min-Spencer-Solutions created across departments are always better than ones solved within departments.