While most
social customer care programs are likely administered by a brand's customer service team, the marketing department can and should be a dedicated partner.
As
social customer care expert and McDonald's Senior Director of Global Social Media, Dan Gingiss, told me in his Behind the Marketing Curtain interview earlier this year:
We
believe social customer care will only continue to grow, in spite of the reality that haters and trolls will likely never go away, for the following reasons:
Many brands see something like this and wonder
whether social customer care will eventually fade away, as trolls and people who hate brands overwhelm a brand's ability to engage customers in constructive conversations.
While
most social customer care programs are likely administered by a brand's customer service team, the marketing department can
As of now, almost all brands that implement an Employee Advocacy program keep that program separate from their Social Media Marketing and
Social Customer Care programms.
Long gone are the days that social media responsibility is limited to the social media team that administers branded channels or looks
after social customer care.
Dan Gingiss @dgingiss Head of Digital Marketing at Humana Presenting: How to Identify the Customer Experiences That Will Get Amplified in Social Media and How Companies Become Best - in - Class
at Social Customer Care: Panel Discussion
For example,
social customer care teams are starting to lose their headcount, as resources are being moved from pure social customer care into companies» contact centers — where brands can more easily integrate customer interactions, across all channels.
We believe that
social customer care will continue to grow because customers demand it, and the economics for the brand support it.
While Employee Advocacy tends to be owned by someone in Marketing, that program owner does not usually also own social media marketing efforts or
social customer care.
For example,
social customer care teams are starting to lose their headcount, as resources shift from pure social customer care into established customer support teams and contact centers — where brands can more easily integrate customer interactions, across all channels.
Amplify
your social customer care with wonderful tools and methods.
To do this in the specific context of social media requires that you integrate your business systems with your social platform, that
your social customer care and marketing / pre-sales agents have access to customer history whenever and wherever they need it.