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Customer Care: 5 Trends for 2019

BY DSN Staff | January 08, 2019 | read / Daily News / Insights

A recent business article by Twitter noted customer care trends from 2018 that they expect to continue to grow in 2019.

Direct Messaging

More consumers are connecting with companies through direct messaging (DM’s) than through more public methods like tagging in a Tweet. According to Sprinklr, 80 percent of consumers engage with brands online, and 54 percent of customers prefer social messaging channels for care instead of phone or email.

It’s easier than ever to reach out privately. With more businesses enabling DM’s on their accounts, customers can private message companies even if they don’t follow each other. DM’s allow for longer messages and don’t limit text to 140 characters, and consumers can upload photos, videos and sensitive personal information without broadcasting it to the world.

Customer Care Bots

Customer care bots, or chatbots, allow companies to offer 24-hour, automated replies that can instantly help customers navigate a technical issue or even order their lunch. Chatbots are a quick-and-easy (not to mention cost-effective) solution for offering simple answers to common questions, but if they aren’t implemented with a strategy, they can feel clunky to people used to real-life interactions.

Chatbots may not have been the solution of 2018, as was widely predicted, but they aren’t going anywhere. Expect them to keep growing and evolving. According to a CNBC report, chatbots could cut business costs by $8 billion by 2022.

Social Care Strategies

There’s been a lot of hype around adopting social media customer care strategies, but now with most brands establishing their social care strategy, there is a move towards personalization. Companies are focusing on more human interactions like active conversations through messaging while adopting a more casual tone and using emojis.

Putting more energy into social care strategies can also mean major savings. According to the Online Marketing Institute, it costs $1 to solve a customer service issue on social media compared to customer call centers, which can cost six times as much.

Customer Care Agents

Marketing and PR departments have long used social data to influence decisions, but now customer care teams are using it to shape interactions. According to Sprinklr, brands generally spend 98 percent of their time and resources trying to reach customers, and only 2 percent on customer care. But now it’s easier than ever to use technology to track mentions and reply quickly to both positive and negative comments—a strategy that shows the world how much a company cares.

Social data also allows care teams and advertisers to work together and deliver more relevant ads. Pinpointing someone’s unique interests or needs can help a brand deliver ads that matter to them, like focusing on a product’s eco-friendly attributes instead of serving a more general ad, or addressing a specific comment or complaint.

Loop Loft used to broadcast the same message across social channels, but when business stagnated, it turned to social data for insights. A few months after teaming up with Sprinklr and personalizing social media ads, Loop Loft experienced a 400 percent increase in ROI.

Customer Care the New Marketing

With consumer interactions more public, customer care is becoming the new marketing. It’s not that one can replace the other—it’s that they’re now working together instead of in silos.

Feedback often appears as public comments under social posts and care teams are seizing the opportunity to actively find them and offer public, personal responses. When it’s done well, word spreads.

Twitter noted that with more than 3 billion people on social media this year, it’s natural that more consumers are using social media to connect with businesses when they have questions, compliments, or complaints. Customers expect the ability to connect with companies online, which means more customer service teams are turning to social media as their primary way of reaching out.

Posted in Daily News, Insights and tagged Chatbots, CNBC, Customer Care, Customer Care Bots, Direct Messaging, direct sales, Direct Selling, Direct Selling News, DM, DSN, Loop Loft, marketing, MLM, Multi-Level Marketing, Online Marketing Institute, PR, ROI, Social Care, Sprinklr, Tweet, Twitter.
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