How to Use Social Media to Enhance Your Brand's Customer Service

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Join PR News for a webinar that will show you how brands overcome their fear of social media in order to enjoy its key benefit: engaged, active and happy customers. While many companies worry about a loss of control when customer service goes social, others are finding just the opposite, controlling their brand image in a productive and powerful way.

You will hear directly from socially savvy brands Comcast and Hertz, as well as from PR agency rbb, which manages social channels for multiple brands for both marketing and customer service success.

At this Webinar, you'll learn how to:

  • Respond immediately to customer complaints or issues on social channels—and follow up
  • Work with marketing, customer service and other functions to establish consistent messages with customers
  • Take a conversation with a customer offline when necessary
  • Interact with customers during a brand reputation crisis
  • Establish metrics to gauge average response time to customer complaints and overall positive sentiment
  • Present data to senior leaders showing the effectiveness of customer service on social channels
  • Manage team roles in customer service efforts

PR experts who have made the leap to dealing with customer service issues on social channels will share best practices from the front lines of Twitter and Facebook and get you ready for one of the most important frontiers for PR professionals—managing customers’ complaints and issues online.

Webinar Speakers:

Walter Neary
Director of Communications, Comcast Washington Market
@wtneary

 Lemore Hecht
Manager, Communications and Social Media
Hertz
@LemoreH

Christine de la Huerta
Vice President
rbb PR
@rbbPR

 Moderator:
Steve Goldstein
Editorial Director, Events
PR News
@SGoldsteinAI

Social media is not a nice-to-have add-on in customer service—it’s a necessity. More than that, it presents an opportunity for PR professionals to lend their communications savvy to a realm that was once the exclusive province of online and brick-and-mortar customer service representatives.

Whether or not your brand proactively uses social media to communicate with happy, unhappy, former and future customers, these same customers are talking about you on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and beyond. Learn how you can apply your PR skills and social media savvy to the realm of customer service.

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