Saturday, 14 April 2012

Online customer service with social media website

When talking about online customer service, it's not a new things for everyone. In this information era, online customer service is more and more general. Every different businesses have their needs and explain about the online customer service. With the network development, online customer service has changed. For example, this services can link with Facebook or Twitter.



Traditional online customer service is mainly accept and hear from customer which contact them initiatively. Customers can contact them by webpage, email and telephone. Nowadays, customers more like to access Facebook or Twitter. If they have some issues, may be they will leave message to the company's facebook or Twitter. If company ignore them, company will lose a change that have a close encounter with customer.


In relative terms, traditional online customer service is closed. Those service processes are mainly focus on between individual service target and service staff. It's a possibility that 10 customers asked 10 similar questions. But service staff has to repeat it for 10 times. Moreover, only customers know that how the quality of their service.




In general, Facebook and Twitter are public occasion. theirs special transmit mechanism can spread information in a short time. This special mechanism can bring a special chance for enterprise to build up their brand image. At the same time, this will produce crisis. Social media is a rapier. How to take advantage of it well is challenge to company's online customer service.
Although traditional online customer service supports 24 hours service. Most of them adopt the system of working in shifts. With the development of mobile devices, online customer services can serve customer every time and everywhere.
All in all, It's valuable and remarkable for online customer service shift to social media platform. Not only for the improvement of normal online customer services, but also excavate the business value on social media website.

Reference
Social Beta(2012), Online customer services and Weibo, available on:
http://www.socialbeta.cn/articles/online-customer-service-and-weibo.html (Last accessed 5th Apr, 2012)

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