Social Media forces immediacy of customer support
by Sky on Jul.22, 2009, under Making organizations work, Social tools, TG2009, Traveling Geeks, Videos
A theme that came up again and again during our London/Cambridge Traveling Geeks tour was that social media, and especially those that provide “immediate” access to company representatives (such as Twitter), are really changing not only how fast a company can respond to customer questions and problems, but are relocating (dislocating?) where the control of the customer relationship resides within many companies. Twitter provides 24/7 access to company representatives (if they’re actually online), and it shifts the decision point or the point at which the company takes responsibility for a problem, outward from the PR department and “C-level” executives (CEO etc.) to the actual front lines where the company’s employees are talking with the customers! Here’s what Robert Scoble said about this in a roundtable held in Cambridge on Friday. The sponsor of this session, Omobono, also has put up a page about the Traveling Geeks visit.
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July 30th, 2009 on 5:38 pm
Another interesting observation. There is no doubt from my own experience at Carphone Warehouse that complaints that originate via Twitter are picked up much more quickly, and we even have examples of ‘bystanders’ to the problem bringing such complaints to our attention. With customer service agents increasingly now operating on this twitter frontline, the need for organisations to trust in and truly empower their employees to make decisions is even greater.
August 23rd, 2010 on 5:13 am
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