What are the most important tips I need to provide a great customer focused service via social media?

Listen attentively to your customers, share opinions, allow them to make suggestions, recognize their strength and contributions

its so useful now a days we should be clear about our are product and mention all details not  mention fake detail about product.

if customer ask any inquarries provide answers as possible as

1. Listen to your customers

2. Share opinions

3. Let them suggest first

4. Stay  up to date

Thank You

We used to wonder whether we even needed to worry about using social media to deliver customer focused service.

But these days, it’s not even a question.

The statistics are undebatable: more and more, customers aredemanding social media support.

In one JD Power survey of more than 23,000 online consumers, 67% of respondents reported having contacted a company via social media for support.

But it’s not just about the number of customers turning to social media for help; it’s about what’s at stake:

One Gartner study found that companies who ignore support requests on social media see an average churn rate that’s 15% higher than companies who don’t.

And on the flip side, a study by Bain & Company suggests that when companies engage and respond to customer focused service requests over social media, those customers, on average, end up spending 20% to 40% more with the company.

Building better relationships with your customers through social support can add up to huge wins when it comes to increasing customer lifetime value.

So how do you do it?

7 Best Practices That Every Social Media Customer focused service Strategy Needs

The good news is that while getting social media customer focused service right takes work, the best strategy is a pretty simple one: just follow these seven tips.

1) Pick the Best Social Media Platforms for Your Business

The problem with taking advice from someone else about the “best” platform to be on is that, well, they may very well be wrong.

The best platform for one business could be completely useless for yours.

What’s most important here is where your customers are.

And if you don’t know the answer to that, it’s a great idea to ask. A simple one-question survey, sent via email using a free service likeTypeform or Google Forms, can point you in the right direction.

By going to where your customers actually are, you can deliver a support experience that’s native to their preferred network.

For example, KLM Airlines knows that many of their customers are professionals using LinkedIn. So the airline launched a Social Mention…

To full-featured paid products like Mention.

These tools can help you stay on top of when and where your product gets mentioned so that you can respond to your customers. They’re great for marketing, but just as important for customer support.

To take things a step further, our team uses the Twitter and Facebook integrations in Groove to get social media mentions right in our help desk, where we can create support tickets from social mentions and respond directly from the app.

3) Look for Mentions That Might Not Be Obvious

Don’t assume that customers know your Twitter handle.

In fact, research shows that only 3% of brand mentions actually use a Twitter handle, instead opting for the company or product name.

Similarly, don’t assume that customers are spelling your company or product’s name right.

Misspellings Happen

Search for your product or business name, along with misspelled variations, on a regular basis (some tools, like HootSuite, will automatically update your feed with new search results) to catch people who are having trouble.

4) Speed Matters in Social Support

While speed may not be most important factor for great support in email, phone, or in-person service, in social media, speed trumps all.

In a survey by The Social Habit, 32% of social media users who contact a brand expect a response within 30 minutes, and 42% expect a response within 60 minutes.

The fast-paced nature of social media—built around live feeds—creates expectations that are different from platforms like email, where a 24-hour response time is a bit more acceptable.

But for social, make an effort to respond as quickly as you can.

5) Use the Right Tone of Voice

Your tone of voice is massively important in customer support.

This can pose a bit of a challenge in social media, where some platforms, like Twitter, limit you to short messages which make it a lot more difficult to get tone and nuance right.

The right tone depends on your customer, and the best way to get tone right is to adjust your tone to match the customer.

There are a few easy cues you can practice spotting in any social media message:

• Does the customer use emoticons, exclamation points and slang? (This is a green light for you to reciprocate.)
• Does the customer sound like they might not be totally fluent in your language? (In this case, you need to be much more careful with nuances like slang.)
• Does the customer sound frustrated? (Turn up the empathy and use tone that’s understanding, apologetic and reassuring.)

One company that does this really well is JetBlue. You can learn a lot about tone by watching their Twitter feed.

Notice how they tailor their tone to each customer.

When the customer is frustrated, they focus on empathy and apology:

When the customer is happy, but not using a super-casual tone, they do the same:

And when the customer makes it obvious that casual and edgy are both okay, the airline reciprocates:

Learning to pick up on your customers’ subtle cues makes delivering service in the right tone of voice much, much easier.

6) Take Things Offline When Necessary… The Right Way

As important as it is to listen and respond to your customers on social media, not every issue can be resolved via social.

Sometimes, the medium doesn’t allow you to write as long of a reply as you need to.

Sometimes, you need sensitive customer information that you (or they) wouldn’t be comfortable exchanging online.

In these cases, it’s okay to transfer the issue to another channel like email or phone.

But it’s important to do this right.

One study about the things that annoy customers most had 37% of respondents mention “getting passed around” as a source of frustration.

That is, getting passed from one agent to another, or one channel to another.

Simply telling your customer that they need to call or email for help isn’t going to cut it; it comes off as rude, abrasive and completely lacking empathy (the most important customer focused service skill).

Instead, use the same friendly, helpful tone you normally would, and start the process of making the customer feel cared for by emphasizing that you’re not just handing them off, but that you’re going to make things right.

@gabelfisch Hey Markus -- yikes, sorry! Would you mind emailing w/ account info to ? We'll get this sorted for you :)

— Groove (@Groove) June 23, 2015

Tone and empathy are incredibly important in all customer focused service, but even more so when you’re asking the customer to do more work to get their issue resolved.

7) Use Your Knowledge Base to Make Things Easy

Using a knowledge base for customer focused service has a lot of benefits.

It can help you cut down on support tickets, deliver faster customer focused service and make your customers happier.

And largely, your customers want to use it.

In a survey by Coleman Parkes of nearly 3,000 online consumers, an overwhelming 91% said they would use an online knowledge base if it were available and tailored to their needs.

But a good knowledge base can help you deliver better support in social media, too.

@selvinortiz Hey Selvin -- not at the moment. What most customers do is further customize tickets with labels:https://t.co/I2ipfPPZvd

— Groove (@Groove) March 18, 2015

By linking to knowledge base articles, you can save time for yourself and make life easier for your customers. Rather than having to explain multi-step processes over social media, you can provide them with easy-to-follow, step-by-step guides built to help.

Social Media Customer focused service Can HelpGrow Your Business

By delivering great support on the social platforms that your customers already frequent, you can build stronger relationships with them and in turn, create more loyal customers.

Ultimately, loyal customers are the easiest way to grow your business in the long-term, and the only way to survive.

Hopefully this post has demystified social media support for you, and you’ve picked up some tips that will help you improve your social support strategy.

What have your own experiences with social media customer focused service been? Let me know in the comments!

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1) Pick the Best Social Media Platforms for Your Business 2) Monitor Social Media Mentions 3) Look for Mentions That Might Not Be Obvious 4) Speed Matters in Social Support

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