Social Customer Care

How do other professionals address social media customer care? Learn tips on how to level up your social media customer service.

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c.levertonAdvanced User

asked in Social Customer Care

Tips for building a healthy comment section?

Hi all! I manage an instagram account for a large public university’s study abroad office. While our instagram account does well in terms of collecting likes on posts, our comment section is full of crickets. Can anyone chip in on tactics they use to grow a healthly comment section? One that’s engaging to students, encouraging further discussion, while keeping it drama-free 😅 I know there will always be clean-up to do for inflammatory comments, but I’m wondering how you transform quiet lurkers to converation-makers, without inviting too many trolls! I’d like to create a supportive community of students who can chat together on our posts. Very appreciative of any ideas you can share!

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13 days ago

bryce.coppersmithFrequent User

asked in Social Customer Care

CSAT Benchmarking

Greetings and Happy New Year, Arboretum! My team and I are planning to set up the customer feedback survey in Sprout. We are planning a smaller pilot phase to start. Before we begin, I want to gather some benchmarks against which we can measure our own survey results, which will allow us to set goals and expectations on CSAT scores that are specific to social media customer care.For context, we are intending to ask these questions:How satisfied are you with the help you received from me today? Was your question or issue resolved? Please tell us more about your experience.For those teams out there providing customer care through social, what industry are you in, and what are your average CSAT scores?

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14 days ago

alexiambrownNew User

posted in Social Customer Care

Customer Care: Empathy and Clarity Matter

Responding with empathy and clarity goes a long way, even if you may not necessarily agree with the customer. It’s important to acknowledge their experience and show that you're genuinely listening to their concern. Even when faced with complaints or negative feedback, turning the situation into a positive experience can help build loyaltyFor example, I once dealt with a customer who hadn’t received their payment for an influencer partnership. Although we hadn’t found any previous messages from them, they claimed to have reached out multiple times and posted negative comments about the company on Twitter. When I saw their public complaints, I took a moment to empathize with their frustration instead of responding with a generic reply. (Note: I think response templates are incredibly helpful, but sometimes a more thoughtful response is necessary.) I acknowledged their concern, apologized for the inconvenience, and assured them we were actively working to resolve the issue. I followed up

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29 days ago

Jonathan ZuluagaCommunity Manager

published in Social Customer Care

Giveaway Day 9: Share Your Social Customer Care Wins & Tips! 💬Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza

Welcome to Day 9 of The 2024 Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza! Today, we’re shining a light on the wins, lessons, and creativity it takes to handle social media customer care like a pro.Here’s What to Do:1️⃣ Create a new post in the Social Customer Care Forum with a tip or story about a memorable experience in social media customer care—whether it’s a win, a funny moment, or a creative solution that worked for you.2️⃣ Engage with at least two other posts to swap ideas and celebrate your peers’ success.Today’s Prize:One lucky participant will win a Walking Pad and a pair of Beats High-End Bluetooth Headphones—the ultimate combo for staying productive and energized. 🎁Let’s learn from each other and celebrate the work that goes into making customer care exceptional. Share your insights below!

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1 month ago

MisterPAdvanced User

posted in Social Customer Care

Tip: Developer a comprehensive social media playbook

One way to help ensure you know what to do in most situations, ensure consistent response, and reduce many stresses and headaches is to create a comprehensive social media playbook. A playbook can include, for example, best practices, response templates, and escalation procedures, as well as specific guidance for specific clients or campaigns. An ounce of prevention can really add up to a pound of cure!

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1 month ago

amanda.hoffmannEngaged User

posted in Social Customer Care

Save Time with a Tagging System

One thing we’ve found super helpful is setting up tags for common types of responses while monitoring the inbox. These can be broad, like “Negative - Low” or “Post Response,” or more specific, like tagging different product types our client offers.It’s been a total lifesaver! When a client asks for all comments about a specific topic, we can quickly sort by tag, export the data, and send it over—super easy.If you’re looking for ways to stay organized and save time, this is definitely something to think about for the new year!

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1 month ago

PartTimerNew User

posted in Social Customer Care

good personalization is good customer care

While authenticity and personalizing in social media is important, so is the personalization in how to relate with customers. Use the contact person’s name, be quick with replies, know their history and engage in genuine and meaningful conversations beyond just transactional conversations. This makes a difference in customer relationships.

1 month ago

emily.murrayAdvanced User

posted in Social Customer Care

Customer Care Tip

I am a social team of one so it’s sometimes hard to respond to every comment or message in a timely manner but a couple of things that have helped me are the automations you can set up within Meta for messages and the saved reply feature in Sprout. The Meta automations are a great feature for giving immediate responses to followers and providing them with a way to find their answer or contact us. The saved reply feature in Sprout also saves me a lot of time when responding to common questions. Does anyone else have any favorite tools or features they use for customer care?

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1 month ago

rileyrroseEngaged User

posted in Social Customer Care

TIP: response templates

Customer care is such an interesting aspect of this job! For me, one of the biggest challenges is that I own the socials for a variety of brands, with many different product managers. Because of this, it can be tough to chase down the relevant information in a timely manner! Throughout my time in the role, I’ve learned a TON about each product and portfolio so that I’m able to answer as many questions as possible myself. My top tip would be to record the questions you’ve received and the answers you’ve given so that when you’re asked a duplicate question, you have the answer ready to go. This way, you can also create response templates for your most commonly asked questions!

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1 month ago

sarah.jonesEngaged User

posted in Social Customer Care

Tip- Create a guide!

Working in recruitment marketing for a large company can make it hard to keep track of every little detail of every department. Creating a FAQ/department guide has been super helpful to quickly and accurately answer comments and DMs! Having a list of who to reach out to about specific topics is also helpful- you’re always going to get niche questions that have never come up before and can only be answered by 1 person! Even though we have the guide, we still make sure to personalize responses to the individual and not copy/paste every answer. It helps show that you actually care about the comment and aren’t just a robot.

1 month ago

Liz.HarterEngaged User

asked in Social Customer Care

Respond or Not? - Angry comments not related to company

I work at a university and we’ve begun getting kind of spammy comments across a number of our affiliated LinkedIn pages from people naming a supposed alum who they are accusing of fraudulent behavior. I’ve done a number of searches both internally and externally to try to connect this person to the person of the same name that graduated from our school AND to the companies they’re namedropping as being frauds and I cannot definitely do so. I can’t decide if we should delete these comments that have nothing to do with anything or leave them be with no comment. I don’t feel like I can comment because I can’t confirm who or what they’re talking about. I’d love to hear what others might do in this situation because on the one hand we want these commenters to feel comfortable engaging with us but we also don’t want their possible misinformation to affect our other customers.

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1 month ago

lisa.rodrigoAdvanced User

posted in Social Customer Care

Building goodwill before customer care is ever needed

Check out this post I recently engaged with… there was no problem to solve or customer service ticket to close—just a moment to engage, match tone, and acknowledge someone’s creativity.These small moments help to build goodwill. They’re the difference between a brand that feels robotic and one that feels human. So when there is a hiccup in the customer journey, this foundation gives a brand grace; you’ve already shown that your brand is present, listening, and capable of meaningful interaction.Never underestimate the power of simply being there.https://www.linkedin.com/posts/george-chartier_hear-ye-hear-ye-hast-thou-heard-the-glad-activity-7269444135441383424-zeAA?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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1 month ago

allyson.blinkhornAdvanced User

posted in Social Customer Care

Customer Care during Controversy

I used to do social media in higher education, until the college I worked at became the epicenter of political controversy. Hoo boy did I learn about a particular kind of customer care.The tl;dr: think backwards when in the middle of controversy.Accusations, scandal, conspiracies - all things outside our control as Social Media Managers, but, of course, we see all the comments and have to take the heat to some degree. A lot of companies turn off comments on posts gathering negative comments or hide/delete posts. Thing is, that can often make things worse. For me, I didn’t have “customers,” I had college students, parents, and community members who were concerned about a sudden publicized leadership change that would affect the college’s standard of education. Turning off comments doesn’t help any of them, doesn’t fix the fact that a physical space (the college) was no longer home to a community, and the digital space our team had spent time cultivating was the only one left that allowe

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1 month ago

TAMAYSAdvanced User

posted in Social Customer Care

Customer Ranting v Customer Solution

I think the biggest thing about customer care is discerning between when someone wants a solution and when someone wants to rant. If someone is looking to rant, empathizing and moving off platform is the best way to go. If the want a solution giving a nod to the type of solution you will provide (if possible) before moving to the DMs let’s others see the level of service you provide. Either way, “showing your work” lets other users see how you operate and sets the expectation for what kind of service you provide.

1 month ago

rebecca.taylorEngaged User

asked in Social Customer Care

Taking care of yourself AND customers

In response to today’s challenge, my biggest tip for navigating the comment section is to make sure you’re practicing self-care, whatever that looks like for you, and taking care of your team. At a previous role, the company I worked for surprised their customer base in a BIG way, that gave people a lot of big feelings they brought straight to social media. My team had to resort to shift work to handle the onslaught, and were spending full shifts being berated by people. We all know that takes a lot out of you, no matter how long you’ve worked in social media. We made sure to have a supportive team chat running, sent each other treats, and more, but the number one thing I would recommend anyone working in community management remember is to put your own oxygen mask on first.

1 month ago

mschillingNew User

posted in Social Customer Care

Social media customer care

Ensure any response/engagement with customers when addressing issues aligns with your brand style/tone but also is delivered with humility and authenticity. I think admitting fault, acknowledging we don’t know the answers, etc. is relatable and welcome when engaging with customers.

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1 month ago

Chris-AndersonEngaged User

posted in Social Customer Care

We overthink social care!

I think companies are overthinking how we approach social care. I’ve found that 9 times out of 10, when a customer cares enough to come to your social pages and complain they just want to be heard. The screenshots below show an example of a customer who seems to continually have mobile app problems. Since I started this role 4 months ago, this is his second time commenting on an unrelated facebook post and bringing mobile app UI problems to our attention. The first time I was pretty new and my manager told me to hold off on replying to customer complaints. She didn’t want me to say the wrong thing and risk any negative brand consequences. I told him we’d look into the problem, but didn’t really engage and didn’t follow up with him to see whether we fixed his problem--I was new, don’t hold it against me! But this time he commented, I figured “What’s the worst thing that could happen if I meet this annoyed customer from a place of empathy and understanding?” So I affirmed his feelings a

1 month ago

Chris-AndersonEngaged User

posted in Social Customer Care

We overthink social care!

1 month ago

robbie.schneiderAdvanced User

asked in Social Customer Care

Launching an employee advocacy program?

For those of you who have launched an employee advocacy program, can you share some of the successes and struggles you had in getting team members on board? We’d love to start one but resources (platform costs and staffing) are concerns.

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1 month ago

Brittany TaylorAdvanced User

posted in Social Customer Care

Are you on Team Delete when it comes to not-so-great comments?

I’m curious where y’all fall on the comment deletion spectrum. I’ve seen everyone from influencers to brands opt for all sorts of things, including:Deleting anything remotely negative Responding and trying to take the conversation private or offline Responding with snark, sass, or more dirt-throwing Ignoring completelyWe tend to go for option #2 unless there’s really awful language or off-color accusations; then, I’ll delete and report/ban/block.

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1 month ago

ohva.commsAdvanced User

posted in Social Customer Care

Keep Moderation Settings on in FB Groups

I am certainly glad I keep moderation on in the Facebook groups I moderate. Most of the time the posts are fine but there is often that one zinger that is just terrible. Got one this morning that would have just devastated some of our parent volunteers!

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1 month ago