Webinar: The 12 Days of Social Customer Service: Preparing for the Holiday Social Media Surge

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Joshua March CEO & Founder Conversocial @JoshuaMarch Rachel Arthur Global Senior Editor, Digital Media & Marketing, WGSN @rachel_arthur #12daysofsoc ial @conversocia l

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In our analysis of over 200,000 Tweets mentioning top retailers, we found that brands can expect up to 5X normal Twitter volume in the coming weeks. The biggest surge occurred in the days following Cyber Monday. Even if you have your holiday social strategy already in place, we will present actionable insights for how to take your social engagement to the next level and to protect yourself from the increased likelihood of social media crises. Watch the webinar recording here: http://conversoci.al/us-holiday-webinar

Transcript of Webinar: The 12 Days of Social Customer Service: Preparing for the Holiday Social Media Surge

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Joshua MarchCEO & FounderConversocial

@JoshuaMarch

Rachel ArthurGlobal Senior Editor, Digital Media

& Marketing, WGSN@rachel_arthur

#12daysofsocial

@conversocial

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Retailers powered by Conversocial Include

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Build an escalation process

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- Align customer service with marketing - Provide correct and incorrect examples of response - Run an offline training workshop- Use approval workflows within software

Download report now: conversoci.al/us-holiday-report

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Setting the scene this holiday season–The NRF predicting sales to be up 3.9% to $602.1bn

–More stores to open on Thanksgiving itself

–Big promotional offers coming out ever earlier than Black Friday

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Have a social customer service team1

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believe companies should offer customer support on their profiles *Social News Daily

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2nd Know what your customers

are talking about

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– Urgent issues– Common issues– Technical or specialist issues – Sensitive issues

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Establish a clear and consistent tone

Whether you have

- Align customer service with marketing - Provide correct and incorrect examples of response - Run an offline training workshop- Use approval workflows within software

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social agents

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Build an escalation process

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- Align customer service with marketing - Provide correct and incorrect examples of response - Run an offline training workshop- Use approval workflows within software

4thBuild an escalation process

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5thPut a crisis plan in place

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• Lock-down on outbound posts

• Holding message or silence

• Official response as soon as possible (NOT days)

• 1-1 engagement with customers

• Use approval workflows

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6th Set Expectations

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- Make hours of operation clear- Build staffing plans accordingly- Understand the time critical nature of social

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7th Prepare for holiday surges in

activity

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- Train additional agents for spikes in volume- Anticipate a surge post Cyber Monday- Ensure agent resourcing matches marketing- If something goes wrong, be prepared

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8thPrioritize who you respond to

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- Don’t waste time with manual filtering - Influence should only matter for proactive engagement - A human should still check (unprioritized) direct posts - Fast response is essential

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9thHelp customers in-store

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- 1 in 4 use Twitter while shopping- Influence a sale at the point-of-purchase- Real-time engagement essential

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th Use social to instantly identify supply chain issues

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–Escalate supply chain issues to managers–Monitor keywords and complaint categories in real-time–Social feedback direct to business units–Proactively update customers

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th Proactively engage to directly

impact purchasing decisions

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- Design searches to find relevant tweets- Engage with influencers- Surprise & delight- Add value–don’t spam

How much customers will spend if they receive good customer service via social media

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th Create a social customer

service playbook

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- Tone of voice- FAQs- Roles & responsibilities of team members- Escalation and crises plans

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@JoshuaMarch @rachel_arthur

#12daysofsocial @conversocial