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Weekly Link Round Up – 04-13-12

Friday, April 13th, 2012

4 Ways to Use Twitter for Customer Service and Support (SocialMediaExaminer.com)

Having become more and more mainstream, Twitter has become a powerful tool for delivering topnotch customer service. The author shares four ways to leverage Twitter to get your customers (and those who aren’t yet) to love you more.

Meet Generation C: The Connected Customer (SocialMediaToday.com)

Generation Y has become an influential force in the economy, which is why marketers need to get to know this segment more. Dubbed by the author as the “Connected Customer,” this generation behaves very differently from their traditional counterparts because of their connectedness.

Social Media And Customer Service Go Hand-In-Hand (RevMediaMarketing.com)

Social media is easily recognized as one of the fastest and most effective ways to communicate with customers. To make the most out of this platform, businesses need to respond accordingly.

Case Study: How H&R Block Uses Twitter for Customer Service (EConsultancy.com)

The author dissects tax services company H&R Block’s use of Twitter in a case study, outlining how they use the tool to respond to customer feedback. Going beyond simply responding, though, they also actively seek out those who mention their company and engage them in conversation.

Learn How To Meet Influential New Customers Using This Free Twitter Tool (SocialMediaCommando.com)

Using social media is not about promoting your products or services outright; it’s about starting better conversations. Marketers can do just this with the help of Twitter’s Advanced Search function, which allows them to directly address potential customers.

Tips for implementing social media-driven customer service

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Tips for implementing social media-driven customer service

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Integrating customer service into your social media strategies lets you utilize the Web’s real-time, interactive nature to respond to your customers more efficiently. Needless to say, this level of interaction and the effectiveness it offers are among the things traditional customer service platforms (via snail mail, comment cards, and toll-free numbers), can only hope to accomplish.

 

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Setting up effective social media-driven customer service strategies

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Setting up effective social media-driven customer service strategies

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With social media proving to be a powerful tool for bridging the gap between brands and their demographic, it’s become customary for companies of any size to integrate it into almost every aspect of their business. Because of the real-time engagements taking place online, social media is a great platform for expanding and optimizing a brand’s customer service-geared strategies.

 

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Ramping up customer service with social media

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Ramping up customer service with social media

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With social media being the core component of just about every Web site out there, brands have learned to map and develop every aspect of their business around it. From how the sites are constructed, down to the ways content is crafted and distributed—brands have definitely gotten onboard with the whole social spectrum that offers a lot of opportunities.

 

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Weekly Link Round Up – 12-24-11

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Nostradamus Predicts: Gamification will have a Bright 2012 (42Terabytes.com)

In light of David Armano’s (of Edelman Digital) successful social media predictions in the past, Maximillian Lemos revisits the former’s positive outlook on the emergence of game-like qualities on today’s Internet and mobile social apps.

OPINION: What is Gamification and should you bother finding out? (UsefulSocialMedia.com)

Harry Rollason explores the meaning of ‘gamification’, and arrives to the conclusion that it’s more than just a fad, as what many large corporations rushing to apply gamification tools to their brand are realizing today as well.

Social Loyalty: The missing ingredient to @BestBuy’s success (Gamifixation.com)

As the largest electronics store in the U.S. desperately attempts to transform one-time shoppers into loyal customers with its “Gaming Trade-in” idea, Carlos Gonzales explains what Best Buy did wrong and how geo-location apps like Foursquare and Gowalla can be used to create social loyalty.

Online Marketing & Gamification by Design (McBuzz.com)

Mark McLaren interviews Gabe Zichermann, author of the book Gamification by Design and investigates the importance of gamification in developing a robust online marketing plan.

How Has Gamification Gone Mainstream? (Infographic) (Dr4ward.com)

Large corporations like Pepsi, Nike, and Nissan have taken notice. Gamification, also known as the application of concepts and techniques from games to other areas of activity, in this case, social media, has gone viral and is quickly becoming a staple in today’s online marketing efforts.

Weekly Link Round Up – 11-11-11

Friday, November 11th, 2011

The Internet Died a Little Today (TheAtlanticWire.com)

When widespread outages were experienced among multiple networks across North America and Europe last Monday, some people perceived the event as unforgivable, saying that today’s Internet is simply too big to fail. Adam Clark Estes investigates what really happened.

Social Media Firestorms: A First Responders Guide (ComputerWorld.com)

Has your misplaced Twitter campaign evolved into a PR mess? Did you make an ungracious response on somebody else’s Facebook wall? Serdar Yegulalp explains how we can avert online catastrophes on social media websites.

7 Roadblocks to a Successful Social Media Campaign (Smedio.com)

Although social media campaigns have become a norm for most companies these days, some still fail to recognize that these aren’t a shortcut to their business’ success. Douglas Idugboe discusses common obstructions to successful campaigns and tells us how we can avoid them.

Brands Fail to Grasp Social Media Opportunities (Blogs.WSJ.com)

After Dippin’ Dots filed for bankruptcy and failed to capitalize on a bad situation when they were in the spotlight this week, it joined other businesses that have failed to grasp emerging social media opportunities. Ben Rooney finds out why brands fail to integrate their social media strategies with real business objectives.

Social Media and Public Relations Needs to be Part of Your Disaster Planning Strategy (EnterpriseFeatures.com)

Businesses that are hit by a disaster can be viciously attacked by rumors that circulate within minutes. They need to deploy an immediate plan of action and build trust and credibility and straightforward updates that have been carefully worded and planned out in advance.

Weekly Link Round Up – 06-17-11

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Users Spend Nearly 16% of Time Online on Social Media (BlogWorld.com)

According to a new report by comScore, online users spend 16% of their time—or about one out of every six minutes—on social media. From the focus on MySpace to the boom of Facebook, the study also reveals how the face of social media has evolved.

What companies should know about social hyper-users (BazaarVoice.com)

Going social is habit-forming. It’s no surprise then that social media can truly tap into today’s connected world. Not taking how hyper-users think and work into consideration, though, can very well lead to a less than successful campaign.

3 Ways to Benefit From Social Media Crowdsourcing (SocialMediaExaminer.com)

With social media opening up avenues for customers to interact with brands and companies, it has also opened up a new way for businesses to source ideas. With a few simple steps to engage the audience, any business can benefit from the crowdsourcing trend.

4 Keys to Turning Negative Commenters Into Brand Advocates (ConvinceAndConvert.com)

While no one likes the sound of negative feedback, it can be the golden opportunity to boost customer satisfaction and ultimately, the business as a whole. Businesses can take each lemon gracefully and turn them into things better than just lemonade with a few points to take note of.

Physical & Online Crowdsourcing Documents the Real First World War (ReadWriteWeb.com)

To illustrate the benefits of crowdsourcing to create innovations, Europeana, the European archive, has combined real-life roadshows and online uploading to assemble an enduring, highly-personalized Web archive of the First World War.

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