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1. white paper
Table of Contents
Executive Summary 2
What is a Social Customer? 3
What Does this New Socially-Enabled Enterprise Look Like? 4
The Challenges in Managing Today’s Social Customer Service 5
Is Your Company at Risk for Social Media Disasters? 5
Examples of Brands Affected by Negative Social Media Interactions 6
The Value of a Contact Center-Marketing/PR Partnership 7
How Socially-Enabled Cloud Contact Center Enables a Social Enterprise 8
What’s the Value of Becoming a Social Enterprise? 10
Conclusion 11
References 11
About the Author 12
Social Customer Service:
The Pivotal Driver of
the Social Enterprise
by Dr. Natalie Petouhoff
555 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City, CA 94065 USA
toll free 1-800-411-4700
phone 650-453-2700
www.liveops.com
sales@liveops.com
2. Executive Summary
While Customer Service and Contact Centers have always been important to a business’ ability to
handle customer questions, resolve problems and deal with issues, the adoption of social media
by Customer Service positions them as the unique driver of the Social Enterprise.
It’s long been known that when properly staffed and with the right technology, Customer Service
can respond to inquiries, questions and issues more quickly and effectively and thereby optimize
traditional interaction channels, while reducing costs. And today’s savvy Customer Service groups
are not only adopting social media, but are actively integrating interactions in social media with
those traditional channels.
But that’s not the big change. The big development is that Customer Services’ role no longer ends
at the boundaries of their department. As companies design their new Social Customer Service
Departments, that role has expanded to include dynamic collaboration with PR, Communications,
Marketing, Sales and other departments. Customer Service is now driving the voice of the
customer (VOC) cross-functional collaboration and that integration and use of VOC data makes
all departments more effective and efficient.
Companies pursuing this new paradigm in Social Customer Service include stronger brand
preferences, greater brand loyalty and revenue preservation (churn reduction), higher customer
lifetime values, lower costs and higher revenue, profits and margins. By acting as a collaborative
partner to provide VOC data to all other departments in the company, Customer Service is the
pivotal creator of the new Social Enterprise.
2
Today’s savvy
Customer Service
groups are not only
adopting social
media, but are
actively integrating
interactions in
social media
with traditional
channels.”
3. Introduction: What is a Social
Customer?
The social customer is a radically new
breed of consumer. They post online in
e-review sites, in public forums, on blogs,
on Facebook and Twitter. They don’t hold
back. And the unabashed posts are in the
open for everyone to see—other potential
and current customers, competitors,
your board of directors, etc. It’s become
impossible to ignore. Imagine that they
are reading other people’s comments
about your company, its products and
services. As they read these comments,
they are making buying decisions based
on these online comments. And just like
cave paintings are permanent etchings
on cave walls, so are the social customer
comments— they are permanent and
inerasable stories about their opinion of
their customer experience. With the rate
of people adopting social media, it’s clear
that it’s not a fad and it’s here to stay.
To provide some perspective on how
prevalent social media has become, here
are some statistics:
• eMarketer predicts there will be 1.43
billion social network users into 2012,
an increase of 19.2% over 2011
figures
• Bain & Company say that more than
60% of Internet-connected individuals
in the US now engage on social media
platforms every day
• If Facebook were a country, it would
be the third largest country in the
world
• Pew Internet research study reports:
o 65% of adult Internet users now
say they use a social networking
site like Facebook or LinkedIn
o Social networking site usage
by adults under the age of 30 is
holding stable at 61%
o Twitter’s US growth is expected
to be four times greater than
Facebook’s growth over the next
four years
o Twitter has 140+ million active
accounts worldwide
o Facebook is still the predominant
social networking site with over
900 million users worldwide
With the social customer communication
channel here to stay, businesses can no
longer rely on traditional PR, Marketing,
Advertising and Customer Service
strategies to engage this new group of
consumers. So what strategies should
companies use to engage these new
customers?
The New Social Consumer Breeds the New
Interaction Communication Age
Social customers are hyper-connected
individuals (meaning they are “always on”)
who regularly broadcast their opinions
over Twitter, Facebook, in blog posts
and in online community forums, and are
accustomed to having quick access to
information. They expect to engage in real-
time interactions with each other and with
companies on social networks, resulting in
higher expectations for quick and reliable
support online.
When it comes to trusting information
online, 78% of customers believe more
in what their friends and family say about
product recommendations and purchase
information than they do the information
coming from brands. With the reliance on
each other’s opinions, the ability to easily
post permanent opinions online (without
the brand’s ability to filter the information)
and the ability to add to and build on each
other’s comments, the balance of power
has shifted from the company to the
customer.
The very nature of Customer Service as a
business function means that it has always
been intimately involved with these social
customer interactions. Most conversations
about a company are about a customer’s
experience with the product or service—
i.e., either they are seeking help, have a
question or require an answer. That’s what
Customer Service has specialized in for
many years.
If the Customer Service Department leads
the social customer interactions, then a
company can have more success:
• Fixing or establishing the brand’s
presence online
• Maintaining brand reputation
• Providing the necessary answers
required in this new interaction
communication age
While other departments like PR and
Marketing are also good at social customer
interactions, they are often at a loss for
staff who are accustomed to interacting
with customers who have issues,
questions or need answers. They also
don’t have the technology to respond to
customers and often lack the information
(such as knowledge management
databases that have the answers including
specific, historical customer data). These
tools and capabilities typically reside within
Customer Service, and therefore make
Customer Service the most likely group to
be able to influence
the customer
experience as well
as lead the social
customer experience.
Demographics of
the Social Customer
For several years
people doubted that
social media would stick around. Some
thought it was something only college
students used to interact with each other
on campuses. But statistics show that
social media isn’t a fad and it isn’t just for
kids. With the average number of friends
and followers being in the hundreds there
3
…businesses can no
longer rely on traditional
PR, Marketing, Advertising
and Customer Service
strategies to engage this
new group of consumers.”
Facebook tops
Google in weekly
traffic in the U.S.
4. is massive potential for people within
social networks to influence their
peers’ opinions about products and
services and to change purchasing
dynamics.
Spending Trends of the Social
Customer
For a company to be effective at
social media they need to understand
the difference between just connecting with customers versus
truly engaging with them. To this end, Bain & Company conducted
a study with more than 3,000 consumers to identify what makes
social media effective for them, see Figure 1.
The survey revealed that customers who engage effectively with
companies over social media spend 20-40% more money with
those companies than other customers who were not engaged in
social media. This means that your socially engaged customers
spend 30% more on average.
Socially engaged customers also demonstrate a deeper emotional
commitment to the companies, which results in higher Net
Promoter Scores (NPS)—higher by 33 points. As a common
measure of customer loyalty, NPS generally measures when a
customer would recommend a company to their friends and family.
The social customer experience has evolved past the traditional
notion of PR and Marketing, Sales, Customer Service and
Call Centers. What’s required is the ability to fully facilitate
engaged customer experiences. To do this requires a focus on
technologically enabling multichannel customer interactions where
a company can interact via traditional customer communication
channels, and add social channels too so they can establish,
build and nurture online and offline customer interactions and
relationships. And that is the new role of Customer Service: to
provide social customer interactions on behalf of all departments.
What Does This New Socially-Enabled Enterprise Look Like?
A social enterprise is made up of people, processes and
technology that support a company’s culture and capabilities to
interact with customers in all channels – the new channels (e.g.
Facebook, Twitter, SMS, mobile) and existing communication
channels (e.g. voice, email, fax, chat) that the customer chooses
to use. The social enterprise is also able to analyze and distribute
the VOC information from all the interactions from all departments.
And a social enterprise’s decisions are driven by the collaborative
use of this critical VOC data.
In the early days of CRM, the notion of crossing departmental
boundaries (e.g Customer Service, Sales, Marketing) with the
implementation of a software solution was talked about in theory,
but few companies really deployed CRM this way. Reaching the
holy grail of accessing consistent customer information across all
departments is still an elusive idea for many companies. In fact,
many of the early implementations of cross-functional CRM failed
due to siloed departmental systems and the inability to connect
systems so that the various departments could make business
decisions with the data no matter which department or database it
resided.
Other failure points? A strong corporate
culture that allows things like finger
pointing and blaming other departments for
failures also discouraged sharing customer
information across organizational boundaries.
Many consulting organizations with change
management skills thrived on trying to align
cross-functional department’s goals and
objectives as well as the technology interfaces and exchanges.
Why? In theory it was so companies have unified access and
updates to customer master data to gain a single view of the
customer which would provide deeper customer insight and make
Marketing, Sales and Customer Service business decisions more
accurate and beneficial to the company.
For some companies, that holy grail of a unified, single view of the
customer via CRM was achieved for structured CRM data. On the
other hand, social media as unstructured data is presenting new
challenges in addition to aligning CRM data. Companies that have
not mastered even the structured CRM data are at a loss for truly
being able to understand what their target customer segments
they want and need. And this leads to products that get launched
and never see the light of day, or it results in campaigns that flop
and revenues that don’t materialize.
4
Figure 1. Bain & Company’s study: Socially Engaged Customers Spend 30% more.
1 in 5 couples meet online.
1 in 5 divorces are blamed
on Facebook.
A new member
joins LinkedIn
every second.
5. The Challenges in Managing Today’s Social
Customer Service
Not only do companies need to provide
better Customer Service, but they also are
struggling with some unique challenges in
a socially-networked world. Some of these
challenges are:
• The Struggle to Keep Pace With the Volume of
Customer Interactions:
There are more and more customers
participating and voicing their opinions
in social networks and the volume is
astounding. Companies have to monitor
their brand and keep up with the volume
because social customer interactions
are public, meaning everyone can see what goes on. They
require real-time analysis to keep up with the “always on”
pace. The monitoring, if done well and with the right tools,
can provide real-time insight into the customer habits, traits,
wants, wishes and concerns. And even more importantly it
can prevent a PR crisis. But Customer Service needs the
right tools to make this process scalable.
• The Difficulty of Choosing from the Plethora of Social
Media Tools:
Today there are many social media tools to
monitor and analyze social conversations
across the many new interaction channels.
Some tools are even free, and they all differ
in their capabilities. Typically, Marketing and/
or PR have been the first departments with
a company to pay attention to social media.
But they are typically not as tool/technology
oriented as Customer Service.
Choosing tools that work for different types
of tech savviness as well as capabilities
is confusing at best. Looking at analyst
reports, one finds listening tools, mixed with
community tools and interaction applications.
If departments don’t collaborate on the choice
of technology- whether its social monitoring
or social interaction tools, it will lead to
customer dissatisfaction, employee/customer
service agent dissatisfaction, decreased
customer loyalty and can impact the brand’s equity. And it can be
very costly at the enterprise level, because many companies end up
having duplicate tools in various departments.
• Lack of Coordination and Triaging of Who Should Answer the
Social Customer:
In addition to Customer Service, other departments such as
Marketing, Sales, PR, Product, or Business Development
may be listening/monitoring social channels. But a customer
isn’t thinking about which department is monitoring or
interacting with them. They just want to be heard and helped.
But customers generally end up with the short end of the
stick; they may start with one department and find that
they have to restart the conversation
as they try to get help. Customers often
find themselves being shifted around to
different channels (i.e. the social interaction
is driven to customer service through
email or voice) rather than being resolved
within the original conversation channel.
This can result in customers repeating
background information and, in some
cases when the interaction is transferred
around, the request is unfulfilled, increasing
customer dissatisfaction and even increasing the likelihood
the customer will complain in an open forum such as Twitter,
Facebook or post to a blog. This is dangerous territory and
companies need to provide better coordination around
interacting with, and answering social customers.
Is Your Company at Risk For Social Media Disasters?
As you read this, consider whether your company is at risk when
you leave your brand unmonitored and customers to fend for
themselves in a socially-networked world. In what ways is your
company unprepared? Here’s some food for thought:
• Responding Rapidly:
Engaging with a customer in social media is more than just
listening and engaging from a marketing or sales perspective.
If a contact center is not enabled socially with the proper5
Marketing departments...
are typically not
accustomed to responding
to customer inquiries on a
real-time basis.”
Generation Y and Z
consider email passé;
many opt to use
Facebook messaging
6. tools it will not be
able to respond
rapidly to provide
the nearly instant
level of service
social customers
expect. Does your
technology provide
instant response
capabilities?
• Collecting VOC Data To Predict
Customer Behavior/Sentiment:
If social media monitoring tools are
not being used to check the current
sentiment of a social community,
especially before launching marketing
campaigns or new product launches,
there can be an outpouring of
unexpected commentary via the very
public social channels — and much
of it may not be good. Knowing what
customers think about your brand
is paramount. Do you monitor the
sentiment towards your brand? Do
you know if its mostly negative or
positive and why?
• Preventing Customer Service Issues From
Turning into PR Nightmares:
Not responding appropriately when
a customer posts a request or a
complaint on a public forum like
Twitter, which they
do at any time of
day or night, could
cost your company
money and impact
your brand. Do you
have the process
and technology to
enable and scale
responses instantly?
• Collaborating Cross-Functionally:
Social media interactions have broad,
public exposure and commentary can
be submitted by individuals or groups.
These interactions are important for
all departments to be able to access.
Even more importantly, there needs to
be a plan and process to coordinate
the response across all functional
departments so that they are in
alignment with each other. Without
that coordination, the brand can
suffer from inconsistent answers to
customers as well as the press. What
are your cross-functional technology
collaboration capabilities?
Examples of Brands Affected by
Negative Social Media Interactions
In the previous section, we talked in
generalities around social media disasters
and being at risk. To bring this topic
home, let’s look at some examples of
companies that were put at risk because
of social media. The companies in the
following examples sustained heavy brand
damage which was greatly amplified in
blogs, Twitter and other social media. Be
forewarned that in a socially-networked
world, Customer Service can become PR
and PR is Customer Service. And these
examples provide “lessons learned” on
why your company might want to look at
the people, process and technology to
deliver the right type of social interactions.
Domino’s Pizza
This is an example of something the
brand didn’t expect, but it happened.
Malicious pizza makers, employed by
Domino’s, performed distasteful acts on
a patron’s food and then made videos
of it and then posted the videos on
YouTube unbeknownst to Domino’s. A
firestorm erupted and with the news
looking to social media for stories,
this Domino’s Disaster made its way
to national news. Domino’s had to
quickly create a video statement from
the CEO reassuring the public that this
behavior was unacceptable and that
the company had taken steps to make
corrections within the company. This
incident also resulted in many calls to
Customer Service.
Kryptonite Locks
This is an example of a company that
was not monitoring their brand and thus
did not know about the mischievous
content that was being posted about
their brand. Because they didn’t know
what was being posted, they never
responded to the content and this
ultimately damaged the brand. Here’s
what happened:
For many years, Kryptonite’s bike
locks had been considered the gold
standard of lock security. One day by
accident, a marketing manager who
did a Google search on the company
found a YouTube video produced by a
youngster that showed how to break
into a Kryptonite Lock with a 50 cent
ballpoint pen. Imagine the horror they
felt when they saw this. And imagine
how upset they were when they looked
further and found video after video
was posted online of people who had
picked the lock open in seconds. Later
Wired magazine wrote an article, further
condemning the brand. Because
Kryptonite failed to respond in a timely
manner, the PR crisis cost them millions
in brand equity. As you read this story,
what effect does it have on your opinion
of the brand?
Take these examples as a forewarning
that your company needs to be monitoring
for social media interactions and to
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…customers who engage
effectively with companies
over social media spend 20
to 40% more money…”
Social gamers will buy
$6B in virtual goods
by 2013 compared to
movie goers who buy
$2.5B in goods.
If Wikipedia were
made into a book, it
would be over 2.25M
pages and take 123
years to read.
7. understand their influence in the social world. Having a Social
Media PR Crisis Plan in place is prudent. But not having a Social
Media PR Crisis Plan connected to interactions in Customer
Service will result in a lack of collaboration between departments,
mixed messages with the public and even
more of a firestorm. It’s important to train
all employees, in all departments, how to
respond to malicious or negative postings.
The bottom line is: if you are not monitoring
the social channels 24/7, you cannot know
what is being said. And left unmonitored,
brand and revenue damage will result.
The Value of a Contact Center-Marketing/PR Partnership
Marketing wears many hats. The major functions of marketing
are numerous: content development, message creation, market
segmentation, campaign creation and launches, corporate
branding, product positioning, collateral creation, marketing
budgeting & scheduling management, agency management, lead
generation, event management, media planning, advertising,
pricing, offers and promotions, website creation/maintenance,
search engine optimization, social media engagement planning,
interaction development, distribution and measurement.
Marketing departments, immersed in the above activities, are
typically not accustomed to responding to customer inquiries on
a real-time basis. Because of all their other responsibilities they
should consider leveraging an “always on” organization such as
Customer Service to assist with social media marketing functions.
The socially-enabled contact center can be a proactive and real-
time response team for the marketing departments to assist in
protecting the company and the brand.
Here’s a short list of why Marketing Departments should consider
partnering with a socially-enabled contact center:
• Creating One Central Hub for Servicing Social Customer
Interactions:
Interactions that start in social media often end up in
traditional channels of communication being handled by
contact center agents. If a social media interaction was
started in Twitter with the marketing department and then the
customer initiated an online chat with a contact center agent,
the agent may have no knowledge of the prior Marketing
interaction. This can cause customer and agent frustration as
well as wasted time on the chat, causing the average handle
time to go up.
Agent-assisted interactions are some of the most expensive
for a company and all efforts are made to make them more
effective and efficient. By having the social interactions start
with a Customer Service agent, who has integrated access
to all channels and existing customer information via CRM,
Social Customer Service becomes more effective and
customer satisfaction can increase.
• Providing the Best Support For Both Social Media and Traditional
Channels:
The Aberdeen Group surveyed 180 respondents to learn
which customer interaction channels are predicted to show
the most significant uptick in the next 12 months.
While the social media channel is continuing to grow,
traditional communication channels still need to be supported
concurrently by the contact center. Companies that have a
central hub for interactions will be providing the most up-to-
date type of customer interactions, in more consistent and
valuable ways. Marketing can integrate marketing objectives
associated with social customer engagement into the contact
center operations/process to deliver an always-on, high
quality, single voice to the customer.
• Enabling the Most Highly Trained
People to Interact with Customers:
Contact center agents are trained
to deal with customer satisfaction
issues and emotionally-charged
customers. Marketing’s objectives are
not designed to include emotionally-
charged customer firestorms. They
don’t staff their departments with
customer marketing agents to
interact with customer issues. Customer questions are best
left to Customer Service agents who have many hours of
experience and training on how to resolve or escalate a hot
situation.
• Providing Consistent and High Quality Customer Interactions:
Contact center agents are monitored and recorded across
all channels of communication including social media to
meet certain performance metrics for high quality and timely
responses. Recordings are reviewed and additional training
is provided as needed. If the customer interactions need
improvement or market offers/promotions change, agents
receive additional training. Because of this focus, they are
highly skilled to provide high quality customer interactions.
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YouTube is the second
largest search engine
If Wikipedia were
made into a book, it
would be over 2.25M
pages and take 123
years to read.
e-Service
53%
Social
Media
37%
Live Chat
36%
eMail
34%
8. • Using the Skills of the Most Appropriate
Employees for Customer Interactions:
Most contact center agents are
typically already part of online
communities and are social
consumers too. They are already
using existing skills such as texting,
emailing, chatting, tweeting and
posting via social and mobile
communications. And, they are
personally accustomed to researching,
interacting, shopping and purchasing
online. Again, Marketing doesn’t have
customer interaction agents that are at
the ready to respond.
• Providing Integrated Social Customer
Data/System to Other Systems:
Some contact centers already rely
on socially-enabled tools to integrate
with CRM systems which are
equipped to measure and participate
in monitoring/engaging via social
and mobile channels with customers.
These systems also provide updated
customer records in one system and
forward relevant information to other
departments.
Many contact
centers or CRM
solutions claim they
use social media,
however it may not
be tightly integrated
into a total solution.
Socially-enabled in
this context means
a contact center that
integrates multiple
CRM databases with
multiple channels including social,
such as Twitter, into its customer
service dashboard.
An example of tight integration is
where tweets are displayed in real-
time, stock ticker style at the top
of the agent’s console. The Twitter
feed is automatically searched for
keywords such as product names or
certain hashtags. Those tweets can
be routed to a specific agent for a
real-time response. That agent can
accept ownership, provide a response
from the agent console via a direct
message (DM), or retweet with a
template and then categorize the
tweet for future analytical purposes.
At the same time the agent can view
all past interactions with the customer
regardless of the communication
channel.
• Providing the Ability to Pivot to the
Required Channel to Service The
Customer:
Whether the channel is Twitter, SMS,
voice, chat or email, the power of a
solution that allows the customer to
use whatever channel they prefer to
interact with the company and allows
the agent the ability to pivot between
channels and, most importantly,
to pivot while still providing great
service is imperative. It’s also
important that the agent can see their
customer data regardless of all prior
interaction channel used. This ability
can increase brand loyalty, increase
customer satisfaction and show others
on a public channel, such as Twitter,
that your company is responsive.
• Responding in Real-time with Real
Answers:
Research shows that customers
using Twitter are often searching for
something using a non-traditional
channel of communication and they
are looking for a response in real-
time from a knowledgeable person at
the company. Customers prefer an
experienced representative who can
handle the communication quickly
and properly. Doing so can help to
alleviate online complaints that can
ensue from social customers. Rapid
response to Twitter can help protect
a brand from being damaged as
complaints sent on Twitter can spread
like wildfire as other customers see
them, and join in on the conversation
and retweet the comment.
How a Socially-Enabled Cloud Contact
Center Enables a Social Enterprise
While each department has a different
reason for interacting with the customer,
the ultimate outcome of every interaction
should be the same: ensure that the
customer has a great experience with your
company upon every interaction. Various
studies have shown over the years that
the cost of obtaining a new customer is
7-10 times greater than that of retaining an
existing customer, further underscoring the
importance of maintaining a high quality,
consistent customer experience in a social
world.
Many departments can benefit from
understanding the nature of interactions
from the social customer as aggregated by
a cross-functional social contact center in
the cloud. Having a cloud-based contact
center/social
customer
interaction
hub inherently
drives cross-
functional
sharing of
information
between
departments.
Below are
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If departments don’t
collaborate on the choice
of technology—whether
it’s social monitoring or
social interaction tools—
it will lead to customer
dissatisfaction, employee/
customer service agent
dissatisfaction, decreased
customer loyalty and can
impact the brand’s equity.”
Women between the
ages of 35 and 45+
were edging out the
men in worldwide
Facebook usage
(68%) and Twitter
usage (59%) in 2011.
Average number of friends
on Facebook is 130; Average
number of followers on
Twitter is 126
9. some specific benefits that Customer
Service, Marketing, Sales, Product
Development, PR, and back-office functions
can achieve to increase brand reputation,
customer loyalty and revenue.
Service: Aggregate and Analyze Cross-
Channel Interactions to Enhance
Customer Service
A socially-enabled contact center
focused on cross-channel interactions
can spot customer complaints and
brewing trends in all channels and take
real-time action to correct them before
they become a PR nightmare. Providing
agents with special coupons, increased
loyalty points, rewards or special offers
can often turn a dissatisfied customer
into a loyal one. And because dissatisfied customers who
have been made “whole” tell hundreds (if not thousands) of
people about their positive experience with your business
in social networks, its important to provide agents with
everything they need to do their job well. The end result is
positive brand building, less customer churn, lower Customer
Service costs and a higher customer lifetime value.
Marketing: Aggregate and Analyze Cross-
Channel Interactions to Increase Marketing
Conversion Rates
Examining interactions from across all
channels, including social media, helps
Marketing to understand which marketing
campaigns are successful and which
are not resulting in the return on the
investment. This type of analysis allows
marketers to improve offers, messaging,
positioning, etc.
And while Customer Service is often the center for problems
and fixes, many questions are about products and services
offered by the company. It’s not unusual that when a
campaign launches, Customer Service is the department
customers call to get a better understanding of the marketing
offer. How well those questions are answered determines
whether customers buy the products and services.
In addition, during those interactions, customers will provide
feedback about offers that don’t meet their expectations.
The offers, in collaboration with Marketing, can be adjusted
in real-time in the socially-enabled contact center. Coupons,
rewards and loyalty points can help to adjust a customer’s
perception. And all of these capabilities will increase
campaign uplift, lead conversion rates, customer loyalty and
decrease brand damage.
Sales: Aggregate and Analyze Cross-Channel Interactions to
Close More Sales
Often a contact center is a Sales Center. Sales, working
through a socially-enable contact center can identify sales
opportunities more easily and quickly via social interactions.
By following the conversation in any channel, the sales
person can learn what customers are saying and how a
solution adds value to the particular customer and close
more sales. They can also use social channels to see when a
customer is frustrated by a competitor and offer support and
help. This can endear the customer to the helpful company
and in the end result in higher loyalty.
In addition, it can be nearly impossible for someone to market
or close a sale for customers who are upset by their existing
service experience. Using the socially-enabled contact
center model, salespeople
can be informed, in real-time,
of the issues customers are
facing. With that information,
Sales can collaborate with
Customer Service to get the
problem handled. And studies
show that when customers
who have an issue, get it
resolved, they are even more loyal than customers who never
had a problem. This is because the customer has gained
confidence that when they have problems in the future, the
company will solve them. And this type of customer service
resolution is essentially what differentiates many companies
in a customer’s mind. And it is what keeps customers coming9
Women follow 2% more
people on Twitter &
post 12% more tweets
compared to men.
Average time spent of Facebook
is 23.2 minutes/day with an
average of 40 visits/month.
10. back and buying more over a longer
period of time. Enabling Sales with
Customer Service interactions results
in higher sales and fewer returns.
Product Development:
Aggregate and Analyze Cross-Channel
Interactions to Launch More Products
that Customers Buy
Through cross-channel analysis, there
are thousands of products launched
each year that don’t make it. However,
with a socially-enabled contact center,
Product Development can build
products based on analyzing customer
requests and feedback. The Product
Development team can examine
interactions
to create new
functionality
and develop
new products
that customers
want and are
ready to buy.
And listening to what customers
want makes customers feel honored,
respected and appreciated. It also
drives their continued interaction
and feedback, which is essential in
continuing to create products that
are adopted. Combining the Product
Development process with Customer
Service results in better products,
better product launches and more
favorable comments by customers on
review sites and other social networks.
Back-Office Functions: Aggregate and
Analyze Cross-Channel Interactions to
Reduce Costs
All businesses need to be mindful of
back-office costs. An example of back-
office functions that results in many
interactions in Customer Service
are billing and pricing. Customers
complain about pricing and billing
via social media and to contact
center agents. And unfortunately,
complaints in social media influence
other potential customers’ buying
decisions. Agents are able to spot
billing or pricing trends and work with
these functions to provide feedback
to them so they can make changes to
things that drive high call volumes. In
addition they can collaborate so that
the agents can take remedial action.
This type of collaboration, which is
often needed in companies but rarely
enabled by technology, can go a long
way to satisfying the customer and
protecting the brand.
PR: Aggregate and Analyze Cross-
Channel Interactions to Increase
Brand Awareness and Spot Trends and
Potential Disasters Before They Go
Haywire
Because customers are so used to
reaching to a company via the contact
centers, they are often the first to hear
product launch or a press release
feedback. Agents can proactively
monitor and document PR events and
alert PR to activate a proactive crisis
management plan when needed.
Agents can also pass along customer
feedback and customer trend data to
guide corporate messaging to shift
customer perceptions quickly.
What’s the Value of Becoming a Social
Enterprise?
Based on the exponential growth of social
media interactions, the power of the social
customer is rapidly increasing as well.
Online communities are banding together
to make an impact on political groups
and governments as well as brands.
Individuals now have a voice and leverage
it in social networks. Contact centers are
obvious choices for efficient and effective
engagement with social customers.
With that said,
often an argument
still resonates,
can a business
really profit from
becoming a social
enterprise? Bain
has documented
the many benefits
Social Enterprises are achieving:
» Ford achieved some level of brand
recognition with a Fiesta social media
campaign at 10% of traditional TV ad
cost
» Virgin America drove a 15% increase
in overall bookings attributed to
Facebook
» Wet Seal reports the social shoppers
have a 2.5 times greater conversion
rate than the average customer
» Nike+ product and social community
credited with increasing Nike running
shoe market share from 48% to 61%
» eBay community users spend 54%
more than other customers
» LEGO credits customer idea sourcing
with its decision to launch more
expensive and customer-innovated
sets, such as 500-piece Star Wars
products
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If a Customer Service
department leads the social
customer interactions, then
a company can have more
success.”
Average time spent on
Twitter is 11.5 minutes/day
and 36% tweet once a day.
37% of Twitter users
tweet from their
mobile device.
11. Conclusion
In the time it took you to read this paper, any number of social
customers have been discussing your brand over social media or
over the Internet. Do you know:
• How many of those consumers are your current or
prospective customers?
• How many of those customers are talking about good or bad
experiences they’ve had with your company?
• How many are influencing others? And what’s their reach?
• How many of your competitors are listening and are
responding to your customers?
• How many customers have you lost because you are not a
Social Enterprise?
The contact center landscape is changing from traditional
communication channels and private infrastructure management
to cloud-based management. Since social media is now a major
channel of communication, it is only fitting that the contact center,
mobile and voice support all move together toward a cloud-
based utilization model and enable businesses to become Social
Enterprises. This is a new model for the new era of CRM or social
CRM, where businesses are integrating PR/Marketing, Sales,
Service and back-office functions, making the whole company
more effective, efficient and competitive. The only way many
businesses will be able to do this quickly and cost effectively will
be to consider a socially-enabled contact center in the cloud. If
you hesitate, your competition may beat you to it.
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The socially-enabled contact center can
be a proactive and real-time response team
for the marketing department to assist in
protecting the company and the brand.”
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