Friday, 30 October 2015

Social Poaching: 7 Different Ways of Making Your Customers Life Easy and Better

The term social poaching generally is described as the act of an organization tempting or stealing the customers from of a specific business organization via social media. Although this is a process that could occur through any social media channel there has been a strong disposition towards twitter for big brands with multiple competitors.

The Act of social poaching is generally considered to be optimistic and could easily target both happy and unhappy customers, tempting customers with a better deal to agreeing with the appalling experience of a disgruntled customers. So how would you stop your customers from coming across such situations? Given below are the 7 different ways of protecting your customers from the entire process of social poaching.

Understanding where your customers would be: Understanding whom you want to engage your time with and where have they been spending their time. This would help you differentiate your company with the other organizations depending on the demographic. The word of week when you are planning to choose a channel is Narrow casting, and if you know when and why you are trying to reach them out then the rest would follow.

Getting the basic rights to maintain loyalty: Friendly banter on social media platforms help you in building the bricks that builds loyalty. Having these kind of engagements would help you come closer to the understanding of all your clients and customer’s needs and requirements. And regardless of whether it’s friendly or fun, formal or serious, it’s much more all about the time, making them believe that you understand what, when, why they have those needs and requirements from the organization.

Empowering your agents to create a greater customer experience for all your clients and customers: All employees need to be empowered to do the best to the person they have been talking too, regardless of whether they have been dealing with the issues customers have facing or having friendly chat about the weather. Engagement with non-customers should second to that every time.

Align your marketing department with the contact center: It’s always considered to be good when you align your marketing department with your contact center. To this generally speaking the brands would have to maintain a closer relationship with all the clients and customers demonstrating a stronger and much more positive engagement with the customers. Say for example if the left knows what the right has been doing then they could easily work in unison creating a better service and brand image for your organization.

Providing social media the time and resources that they need: As high profile cases continue to prove you could never afford to neglect the social media channels no matter what business you have been dealing with. And if you have never been doing then it’s the right time that you pay attention to all your social media channels making sure that your SLAs are targeting in minutes rather than hours.

Blocking your competitors from commenting on your Facebook page: Twitter and Facebook both offers you with features that allow you to block individuals from your website page. Facebook generally offers you with two major options.

1   Removing someone from your page: They would no longer like it and would not be able to see your posts from their news feeds.

2        Ban someone from your Facebook page: They would still like it but would not be able to post anything on your page or share content from your Facebook page to the other pages on this social networking site.

Training your agents on who your competitors are: Your social media team has to be aware of who your core competitors for your business are. This would help them in developing additional training or by placing informative posters in and around your office. They should also be able to understand and know what they have to do when your competitors come up and make a post on your social networking page.


So is it the time for your contact center services to sit up straight and pay attention. What more could you be doing in order to protect yourself from social poaching. 

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