Better brand reputation, better customer loyalty, greater market reach—these are just some of the many benefits of good customer care.
The question is, how do you achieve good? Here are five easy ways to do so.
An easy way to improve customer care is to make it simple for customers to leave feedback.
You can do this by including a contact form on your website. Enabling direct messages via social media is another quick way of getting genuine feedback. You can also create dedicated social media handles designed solely to address customers, like Nike:
Nike’s Twitter support handle (Image Source)
The goal is to get customer feedback before they turn into headaches. Unhappy customers resort to social media rants when they don't receive immediate answers. You wouldn’t want that for your brand.
Recommended reading: How to Avoid PR Disasters and Mistakes with Social Listening
Chatbots are the rage these days. But, they’re not without its downsides. Some brands are losing businesses with chatbots as customers get turned off by canned, worthless automated responses.
This is where real human support and personalization matters. Personalization is the key to building customer’s trust and engagement. It gives them the vibe of being taken care of and not just someone filling up your balance sheet.
The benefits of customer care personalization (Image Source)
When you have support staff to manage customer care, make sure that they demonstrate the following habits when handling customers:
Internal conflicts, among other issues, can impact your customer care. Unhappy and dissatisfied employees don’t perform well which leads to poor performance.
Make sure your employees feel valued and appreciated at work. Pay attention to your internal communication and incentives. Understand your employees’ needs to ensure they can perform at their best.
Basecamp, for example, encourages employees to take time off to recharge and restore their mental health.
Basecamp’s generous time off benefits (Image Source)
Review your employee policies and incentive schemes constantly. If these don’t work, ask your employees what makes them feel valued.
Remember, your employees reflect your brand’s image to your customers—treat them well.
You can only know which part of your customer care strategy to improve with the right insights. One way to start collecting data is by benchmarking your competition.
Tools like Lucidya let you monitor how other brands are leveraging social media to improve their customer care. You can use this information to analyze your brand and fill in gaps as needed.
Social listening also lets you gauge your audience’s feelings through sentiment analysis. This way, you don’t have to guess if your customers are happy or not when executing your plans.
A little bit of human touch now does wonders to your customer care.
It doesn’t hurt to include a handwritten thank you note in your parcel. Similarly, it’s good to call up your customers once in a while to ask them how they’re doing.
“Personalized marketing and advertising is not about sales. It’s about building a relationship with the customer.” – Julian Hillebrand
Offline customer care still works. It keeps everyone grounded and it’s a refreshing change of pace from the digital world.
Lucidya is a must-have tool for brands that want to revamp their customer care performance with real-time, in-depth audience insights. Many successful agencies have used Lucidya’s social listening tool to empower their customer care and tenfold their performance.
Now is the best time for your brand to do the same.
Request for a free demo of Lucidya today to start benefiting from social media listening.
Lucidya is an AI-powered social media listening tool that empowers companies with in-depth, never-before-seen customer insights. Lucidya’s best-in-class text analysis engine also provides powerful sentiment analysis for conversations in English and all Arabic dialects including Najdi, Hijazi, Levantine, and many more.
With Lucidya, businesses can build profitable products, boost customer satisfaction, execute successful campaigns, and close more sales thanks to our extensive list of social media listening features.
