Sunday, 6 May 2012

3 Steps To being Responsible in Social Media Marketing

As a Social Media Marketer you need to keep 3 things in mind as you run your campaign.  A customer has a complaint, the product has a technical problem or a mistake has happened in upstream activities - -  regardless you need to take these 3 steps:

1)  Acknowledge - Once you find out the actual problem - take responsibility.  Failure to do so will have the customer keep living the experience by repeating and with that their unhappiness now includes you!

2) Apologize - An upset customer must be calmed down, if you can - try the "feel/felt/found" technique before you apologize.  It goes something like this:  "I would feel the same way..."  "I have found that calling as quickly as you have is important...."  This leads to number 3:

3) Act - You have acknowledged the problem, taken responsibility and placed yourself in the customer's shoes - - Do something.  Any front line person needs permission/budget to ACT.  "Calling the manager.."  No, not the best approach.  "Placing someone on hold for an extended period of time..."  No, not the best approach.

3 simple steps to build credibility and customer satisfaction, should you experience some customer satisfaction turbulence.

Try it.

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