Breakdown: Social Media Workflow, Process, Triage

Left: Altimeter Research found that most companies lack a formalized process –and even out of the advanced, only 76% had a process in place, read the full report on Social Readiness. The purpose of these breakdown posts is to serve as an industry reference as … Continue readingBreakdown: Social Media Workflow, Process, Triage

Breakdown of a Dedicated Social Media Engagement or Command Center

Left: Dell’s Social Media Command and Listening Center, Austin Texas. The purpose of this post is to be an industry reference for this social business use case, please leave comments with further additions. Many a year ago, I worked at a web hosting company that … Continue readingBreakdown of a Dedicated Social Media Engagement or Command Center

Video Replay: 10 Reasons Customer Care Has Changed and How To Build a Strategy

Responding to Customers In Social Support May Be Hurting Your Brand. Why? You may be teaching your customers to yell at their friends in order to get your attention. You must develop a social support strategy that involves an escalation process, will scale, and use … Continue readingVideo Replay: 10 Reasons Customer Care Has Changed and How To Build a Strategy

Social Media Mission Control, The Contact Center Must Evolve #SocialSupport

Left: Gatorade’s (Pepsico) Social Media Mission Control Center in Chicago listens and supports customers wherever they are in their lives. (Video, WSJ) Customers have been blessed –and cursed– by call centers where customers call into customer support phone lines when they have woes to solve. … Continue readingSocial Media Mission Control, The Contact Center Must Evolve #SocialSupport

Reinforcing Customer Service in Social Mediums: #SocialSupport

Large companies are struggling internally to support customers in social channels. Why? It’s a long term commitment, goes against existing support avenues, and is a major cultural shift. I want to kick off an opportunity to tell your story of customer service, why?  If support in … Continue readingReinforcing Customer Service in Social Mediums: #SocialSupport

Matrix: The Four Social Support Strategies

At the Altimeter Group, I cover Customer Strategy, which encompasses not only marketing, but also support, expect our discussion to grow as social technologies impact the whole enterprise. The Social Support movement is afoot (see opportunities), and more companies will be connecting existing marketing and … Continue readingMatrix: The Four Social Support Strategies

Social Support: Companies Are Teaching Customers To Yell At Their Friends

Update: I polled my microblogging network on which brands have supported them on Twitter, see which brands have ‘taught’ their customers to yell at their friends. Recently, I started teaching puppy Rumba tricks beyond the basic sit and stay, I even made a video. How … Continue readingSocial Support: Companies Are Teaching Customers To Yell At Their Friends

How Customer Support Organizations Must Evolve

How Customer Support Organizations Must Evolve  View more presentations from jeremiah_owyang. Customer support is tactical, a cost-center, and the clean-up-kids at the company.  Well, that’s the mentality that needs to change.  Instead, customer support can be strategic, a value center, and proactive towards customer needs. … Continue readingHow Customer Support Organizations Must Evolve