A presentation with tips for nicely sharing social between your social media and support teams, including an inside look at how Zendesk customer advocates handle social tickets.
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Follow me on Twitter: @aviwarner
Avi Warner
SENIOR CUSTOMER EVANGELIST, ZENDESK
Follow me on Twitter: @andrewcaravella
Andrew Caravella
VP MARKETING, SPROUT SOCIAL
5. Support + Social =
Customers get acknowledged quickly
Social does double (or triple) duty
Public,positive interactions
Really great support metrics
Super easy (for everyone)
You dont have a choice
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Training (both teams) to ID support tweets.
Handling in Twitter vs. bringing to another channel.
Support gets first crack.
Support helps social during non-US hours.
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Built social into our red alert process.
Post updates on a schedule.
@ZendeskOps is substantive, @Zendesk retweets
and refers.
Support keeps social team informed, scheduled
promotions are suspended.
Clear post-incident process.
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Have Support help fill in 24/7 Social coverage.
Give Support brand and social training.
Triage a customer in Zendesk before replying.
Make sure Social and Support share a communication
channel.
Do
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Sound like a robot.
Try and solve complex issues via social.
Tweet back to everyone affected by an incident.
Feed the trolls.
Make your customers do extra work!
Dont