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Social Media: Fixing Customer Care - The New Social Marketing

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Fixing Customer Care: The New Social Marketing
Dave Evans  |  Social Media  |  Comment  print  Email  Share it on Twitter  Share it on Facebook  Share it on LinkedIn
customers Brand reputation and hence brand value is increasingly determined by customer experiences re-cast as content, posted and shared on the social web. Smart marketers are expanding their roles to include these essential touchpoints. An amazing thing is happening as a result: customer care is going social. You know the cliché: 1-800-BLA-BLAH, enter your account number, press 2, press 1, press 4. Then, when someone answers, tell that person your account number (again) and explain why...


LinkedIn Shows Brand Love With Showcase Pages
Liva Judic  |  Social Media  |  Comment  print  Email  Share it on Twitter  Share it on Facebook  Share it on LinkedIn
showcasepages In what appears to be an effort to consolidate brand presence, LinkedIn has launched Showcase Pages, a complement to its now well-known Company Pages, with the important difference that now followers of the brand can interact directly with the specific branch, unit or business they are interested in. In a blog post today, LinkedIn highlighted the fact that followers had nowhere to show companies what they are actually most in to, among the various corporate activities. This...


WeChat Official Accounts and What This Means for Marketers
Rudi Leung  |  Social Media  |  Comment  print  Email  Share it on Twitter  Share it on Facebook  Share it on LinkedIn
wechat WeChat is growing in warp speed. With a history of only 2.5 years, it already has over 400 million registered users worldwide (source: China Daily). Besides China, the mobile app is expanding rapidly in Southeast Asia such as Malaysia, Thailand, India, and Hong Kong. It’s also evolving and adding new functions in an attempt to become the world’s most popular mobile messaging app. WeChat 5.0, which launched in August demonstrated how ambitious it wants to become in mobile commerce,...


New Pinterest Feature Lets Brands Showcase What's Trending on Their Site
Jessica Lee  |  Social Commerce  |  Comment  print  Email  Share it on Twitter  Share it on Facebook  Share it on LinkedIn
zappos-pinterest-page Pinterest has been busy lately with feature releases like related pins, promoted pins, and now this: dedicated Pinterest pages on brand websites showcasing the pins that are trending around the brand on Pinterest. Pinterest explained in its announcement: Now, when you go to AllRecipes.com in search of Thanksgiving recipes, you’ll see the most popular recipes on the home page, chosen by fellow Pinners. Or, if you head to Zappos.com to get started on your holiday shopping, you...


Are Social Media Metrics Lying About Your Brand and Customer Interactions?
Bryan Eisenberg  |  ROI Marketing  |  Comment  print  Email  Share it on Twitter  Share it on Facebook  Share it on LinkedIn
Social Media Manager A Bain survey recently shared that 80 percent of company executives believed they delivered a “superior experience” to their customers. But when Bain asked the executive's same customers about their own perceptions, only 8 percent of customers felt those companies were really delivering. That’s a huge disconnect. How can that be? Great metrics often disguise mediocre performance. That’s what happens when metrics are focused inwardly on company performance instead of customer...



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