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Integrating Social Media into Your Customer Contact Center Mary Naylor, CEO, VIPdesk Liat Myers, Director of Social Media, VIPdesk -The importance of integrating social media into overall customer service strategy -Best practices addressing how social media can be used to supplement current customer communication channels -The role the customer contact center plays in social media implementation -Best practices, tools, and tips for incorporating social media into your contact centerTRANSCRIPT
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VIPdesk Webinar Series
Integrating Social Media into Y C t C t t C tYour Customer Contact Center
Today’s PresentersToday s PresentersMary Naylor, CEO, VIPdesk
Liat Myers, Director of Social Media, VIPdesk
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About Today’s Presenters
Mary Naylor Liat MyersDirector of Social Media
Has received awards including Inc./ ’ “ d
CEO Director of Social Media
Expert on strategy, tools, and techniques used d i l i hi i500/5000, SBA’s “Home-Based
Champion of the Year”, and Smart CEO’s Future 50 Award
S th E ti C itt f th
to drive customer relationship management via social media
Designed social media strategies for customer acquisition, relationship management, and
Serves on the Executive Committee of the Young President's Organization and is a member of AH&LA, ATA, WOMMA, NRF, SOCAP, and C200.
acquisition, relationship management, and reputation shift
Loves helping businesses make best use of Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, blogs, iPhone
d th h i t lFrequent speaker on customer relationship management and the author of Customer Chemistry (McGraw-Hill 2002)
apps, and other sharing tools.
15+ years of global marketing experience
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Today’s Agenda
• The importance of integrating social media into overall customer service strategy
• Best practices addressing how social media can be used to supplement current customer communication channels
• The role the customer contact center plays in social media implementation implementation
• Best practices, tools, and tips for incorporating social media into your contact center
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Tweeting about Today’s Webinar?
#vipdesk#vipdesk
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Why Does Social Media Matter t th C t C t t C tto the Customer Contact Center
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Evolution of Communication
Control
ChaosChaos
ABSOLUTE, TOTAL CHAOS
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Social Media=Customer Service No-Brainer
• Why?
– 74% choose to do business with company based on customer care experiences shared by others online
– 72 % use social media to research customer care reputation BEFORE making purchase
– 59% use social media to vent their frustrations
O t it !• Opportunity!
– Only 44% of retailers regularly monitor what their customers are saying on social networks
• Give Your Customers What They Want!!
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Your Company’s Contact Center
• Customer contact center is logical home for social media– Primary venue for customer contact interaction
Y l d i – Your customers are already contacting your company
– Already staffed almost (if not) 24/7/365
• Customer contact center already houses customer information in CRM
• Customer service team = gatekeeper to escalate comments/discussions to appropriate departments
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Old School vs New School
Traditional Call Center
• Passive
Social Media
• Real time• Passive– You wait for a call
– Caller waits for you
l i
Real time– Instant and ongoing
• PermanentT t & t li f• Exclusive
– Just between you and your customer
– Tweets & posts live forever
• Public– It’s a forum, open to all
• Unequal– You’re the only expert talking
• Scripted
• Equal– Everyone can be an expert
• Real timep– Canned responses by the call
center
• Real time– Generated and controlled by
the consumer
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What Hasn’t Changed?
The Same Customer Service Rules Apply!
Treat customers with respect, don’t argue
Deliver on what you promise
Commit to qualityCommit to quality
Know your customers
Know your products & services
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Social Media in Action
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Nestle-Disaster
“I was a big fan of your products, but now, when I saw what you guys wrote, I think I’m gonna stop buying them.”g p y g
Fan quote from Nestlé Facebook wall
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Doing it Right!
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Doing it Right!
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Airlines Use SM to Avert Disaster
#ASHCLOUD#ASHTAG#ASHTAG#GETMEHOME
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Airlines Use SM to Avert Disaster
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Integrating SM into Your Customer Contact Center
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Step-by-Step Approach
• Step 1. Make your business case
• Step 2. Decide where to house your effortsp y
• Step 3. Develop a social media program
• Step 4. Recruit and train front line agentsp 4 g
• Step 5. Invest in tools and technologies
• Step 6. Quality AssuranceStep 6. Quality Assurance
• Step 7. Listen, learn and respond
• Step 8. Advanced Methods & TechniquesStep 8. Advanced Methods & Techniques
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Step 1: Make Your Business Case
• Senior executives and legal must be on board
Develop your business case to show the power of social media
D fi l /– Define your goals/purpose
• Reputation management, increase online transactions, market research new product introduction, company announcements, awareness humanize your brandawareness, humanize your brand
– Do Some listening (Be a voyeur)
• Where are your customers?
A t t lki b t ? Wh t th i ?• Are your customers talking about you? What are they saying?
• What platforms are they using?
• What are your competitors doing?
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Step 2: Decide Where to House Your Efforts
• Customer contact center is logical location/team– Primary venue for customer contact interaction
• Use the customer service team as a gatekeeper to escalate d h i dtweets and comments to the appropriate department
– Select a primary and back up from each department
• Make sure that your legal department is properly prepared and staffed to support the front line teampp
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Step 3: Develop a Social Media Program
• Employee conduct policy– FTC Amendments could mean employer liability for employee’s online
conductconduct
• Corporate control– Do agents get free reign?
– Does every post need legal approval?
– Only product specific?
• Decision tree– Recognition and response protocolRecognition and response protocol
• Who responds to what message and how
• What types of people to ignore
• When to escalate
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• Fire drill policy
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Step 3: Develop a Social Media Program
• Hours of operations – Social media is 24/7
– Necessary to monitor and respond in real time?
D i i i i l l l/f f • Determine initial level/frequency of engagement– Resources
• Success metrics
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Step 4: Recruit and Train Front-Line Agents
• Pick top agents to manage this channel– The new company spokespeople
– Comfortable online, know protocol of online communities
– Should be phone call superstars, now they need to go social
– Others should aspire to be in this position
o Training should include:How to turn fans into evangelists– How to turn fans into evangelists
– Social media vocabulary, tools and techniques
– Transparency
C t i i 140 h t l– Customer service in 140 characters or less
– Dos and Don’ts
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Step 5: Invest in Tools & Technology
• Basic search tools (free)– Twitter search
G l d Y h ! h ( bl )– Google and Yahoo! search (news, blogs)
– Technorati
• Monitoring dashboards (free)– Twazzup 2.0 beta
– Social Mention
– Addictomatic
• Twitter Clients (free)– TweetDeck
H t it– Hootsuite
– Cotweet
– Monitter
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Invest in Tools & Technology, cont.
• Paid services
– Radian6
– Visible Technologies
– Sysomosy
– Right Now
– SalesforceSalesforce
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Step 6: Quality Assurance
• Customer frustrations can go viral FAST!– Interactions need to be monitored and spot checked
• Direct customers to post-contact customer satisfaction survey– Ask agents to promote a link at the end of an interactiong p
– Post link on Facebook, twitter, etc.
Assessment and Retraining• Assessment and Retraining– Fast moving space, critical to share experiences, assess tools and monitor
new trends and networks
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Step 7: Listen, Learn and Respond
• Listen– Monitor conversation: search for keywords/set up alerts
– Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, News sites, review sites
– Are people talking? What are they saying?
Is the sentiment positive negative or neutral?– Is the sentiment positive, negative or neutral?
– Learn what you wouldn’t hear directly
– Where are your customers congregating?
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Step 7: Listen, Learn, and Respond
• Learn:– Gauge brand sentiment
– Learn customer needs in real time
– Take note of what your competitors are doing
– What are the opportunities?
– Do you have brand advocates singing your praises?
– Are self -proclaimed experts spreading false information?
– What does it all mean? • Is there a crisis brewing?
• Separating the “signal from noise”
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Step 7: Listen, Learn, and Respond
• Respond– Be polite and think before you post
– If a problem can be fixed with a tweet or post, do it• Take complex issues offline: DM or e-mail
Always respond to posts negative and positive– Always respond to posts…negative and positive• Don’t be defensive, accept constructive criticism
• Thank your customer and tell them how much you appreciate positive feedbackfeedback
– Try very very hard not to delete posts
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Step 8: Advanced Methods & Techniques
• Incorporate CRM– Update CRM files from social media posts and tweets
– Coordinate media tracking and lead generation
B ild d t il d fil f t d th i d• Build detailed profiles of your customers and their needs
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Step 8: Advanced Methods & Techniques, cont.
• Take a statistical approach to monitoring• Map trends by keyword, user, etc.
• Embrace customer advocates and evangelists—get them to work for youwork for you• Bring off line initiative online
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Don’t
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Don’t Miss
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Don’t Miss Out
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The Social Customer Solution
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How We Can Help
l i l i hi b b d d
Conduct a Social Media Audit
• Gap analysis to assess relationship between brand and customer service
• Determine your strengths weaknesses and threats• Determine your strengths, weaknesses, and threats
• Where are your customers?
h b h l f• What are your customers saying about you? What platforms are they using?
• What are your competitors doing?• What are your competitors doing?
• Best practice report/recommendations
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How We Can Help
I t i l di i t i ti i h l
Develop a Social Customer Communication Plan
• Incorporate social media into existing service channels
– Take advantage of this new medium for communication
• Develop employee conduct policyp p y p y
• Recommend success metrics
• Determine decision tree
– Who responds, to what message, how
– When to escalate
– What types of people to ignore
– Fire drill policy - recognition and response protocol
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How We Can Help
Monitor and Respond on Behalf of your Brand Online
• Utilize VIPdesk partner platform or client selected
• Listen to conversations that customers are having with their knetworks
• Monitor sentiment trend: positive, negative or neutral
• Refine recommendations based on customer behavior (i.e. Where are they congregating?)
d i l di di i i i• Respond to Social Media discussions in an appropriate tone
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How We Can Help
Develop Training Programs and Protocols for Team
• Profile of ideal Social Media agent
• Platforms and networks
• Social media vocabulary, tools and techniques
• Customer service in 140 characters or less4
• How to turn fans into evangelists
h l• When to escalate
• What types of people to ignore
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Questions?
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Next VIPdesk Webinars
July 2010• July 13: Make Your Brand Memorable With a Remarkable
Customer Experience
• July 27: Bridging the Gap Between Social Media and Customer Service
August 2010• August 10: Social Media Tools for Success
• August 24: The 5 Worst Customer Service Mistakes You Can Make (and how to avoid them) ( )
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Thank You For Attending!
Mary NaylorCEO
(703) [email protected]
www.twitter.com/vipdeskpwww.vipdesk.com
Liat MyersDi t S i l M diDirector, Social Media
(646) [email protected]
www.twitter.com/liatmyerswww.vipdesk.com
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