{"id":1641,"date":"2016-04-05T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T10:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalrepublik.com\/approval\/drgazette\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2017-12-25T11:59:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T11:59:39","slug":"make-social-media-your-ally-turn-complaints-to-compliments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalrepublik.com\/digital-marketing-newsletter\/2016\/04\/05\/make-social-media-your-ally-turn-complaints-to-compliments\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Social Media your Ally &#038; turn Complaints to Compliments!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the great Taylor Swift once sang, &#8220;Haters gonna Hate, Hate, Hate&#8221;, funny as it is, even Brands have to bear a customer or two&#8217;s brunt online. They can come in the form of honest long form write ups or a snarky comment. They can also be fake complaints planted by your &#8216;industry well-wishers&#8217;! But one thing is for sure, there\u2019s just no escaping a slight or a scathing negative comment; especially <i>Social Media complaint<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few interesting tid-bits about how consumers reach out online to brands with their complaints. Did You Know?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>17.4<\/b> % of <b>consumers complain<\/b> to brands using <b>Social Media on a weekly basis<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li><b>32.8<\/b> % of <b>brands never offer a response<\/b> to social media complaints.<\/li>\n<li><b>289 Million Complaints<\/b> are left <b>unanswered<\/b> by the brand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Why do Customers now use Social Media to make their complaints to the brand?<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Social Media provides consumers with the most convenient platform to communicate their concerns.<\/li>\n<li>Social media provides consumers with a sense of empowerment.<\/li>\n<li>Brands showcased on Social Media give Consumers high expectations about brands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>What should a Brand be doing to counter these complaints?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>We say \u2013 Take it <b>SERIOUSLY &amp; OWN IT!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Complaints are a lot like a little wound. If you ignore, it will fester &amp; spread&#8230; unless &amp; until you choose to apply a medicine and help it heal. Handling customer complaints should be a similar task. When you as brand are faced by a complaint on social media, consider the concern of the consumer, and take the next appropriate action of redressal.<\/p>\n<p>To put it simply, here&#8217;s how to deal with haters on Social Media:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Build a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalrepublik.com\/digitalgazette\/2016\/february\/because-isnt-your-brand-worth-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reputation<\/a> on social media for listening to your consumers.<\/li>\n<li>If need be, create a separate Social Media Handle or a Page as the brand&#8217;s virtual &#8216;Customer Help Desk&#8217;. A nifty tip if you want an effective customer complaint management system in place.<\/li>\n<li>Differentiate between Genuine Customer Concerns &amp; Fake Complaints.<\/li>\n<li>If they are fake comments planted to make your brand look bad online, tackle it online itself. Reach out with facts like &#8216;Registration Number, Service Token, etc.&#8217; &amp; keep following up. And when they do not reply to your approaches, your fanbase too will know it was a badly planned ruse.<\/li>\n<li>Tackle genuine concerns with a help of a little creativity &amp; a lobby of social media support.<\/li>\n<li>Aim to respond to complaints within an hour\u2019s time.<\/li>\n<li>Enable your staff by giving them the license to use their initiative to solve the issue at hand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With this a brand can even transform this potentially harmful complaint into a positive experience for the brand &amp; the consumers!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a peek into a few brands&#8217; &#8216;Social Media Redressal&#8217; tactics to give you better understanding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JetBlue<br \/>\nJetBlue use Twitter as the platform for Consumer Redressal and have an impressive response time of 10 Minutes. They encourage the Social Media Experts to respond with a view to add value &amp; connect with customers, which keeps organic &amp; natural. This makes the Brand look they are going an extra mile for their customers and in turn affirms their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalrepublik.com\/digitalgazette\/2016\/february\/because-isnt-your-brand-worth-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reputation<\/a> among them.<\/li>\n<li>Dell<br \/>\nThe company have an appointed \u2018Listening Czar\u2019 responsible for the overall integration of Dell\u2019s social media support offering.<br \/>\nThe company now employ a team of 70+ social media customer service officers operating from a state of the art \u201cSocial Media Listening Command Center\u201c, managing up to 25,000 social media interactions per day.<\/li>\n<li>KLM Airlines<br \/>\nKLM&#8217;s social media team now consists of a dedicated team of 200+ employees who monitor the airlines social media channels to provide 24\/7 support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the age of Social Media, it becomes imperative for a Brand to not only showcase themselves on the platforms, but to in fact leverage the power of these very platforms to kindle a \u20182 way dialogue\u2019 with consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the great Taylor Swift once sang, &#8220;Haters gonna Hate, Hate, Hate&#8221;, funny as it is, even Brands have to[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsworthy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrepublik.com\/digital-marketing-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrepublik.com\/digital-marketing-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrepublik.com\/digital-marketing-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrepublik.com\/digital-marketing-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrepublik.com\/digital-marketing-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrepublik.com\/digital-marketing-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrepublik.com\/digital-marketing-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrepublik.com\/digital-marketing-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrepublik.com\/digital-marketing-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrepublik.com\/digital-marketing-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalrepublik.com\/digital-marketing-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}