Consumers Are Now In Control: Consider this infographic technology magazine Fast Company ran in their recent social media issue. All the “rules” are interesting and clever but it’s #33 that stands out more than all. “Your Fans Own Your Brand”. Today, businesses have a chance to understand, learn and communicate better than ever before with their consumers—but it’s now a two-way street. Today’s consumer is empowered and in control. Businesses can quite literally begin to personalize and target for a better customer experience and relationship. And the treasure trove of data available across the social web – especially when integrated with current enterprise data – can provide a holistic view of your consumers – wants, needs, likes, desires, etc. – and allow your business to thrive like never before. Now more than ever, it’s critical to understand, engage and empower today’s consumer for a better consumer experience.
Consumers Are Now In Control: Consider this infographic technology magazine Fast Company ran in their recent social media issue. All the “rules” are interesting and clever but it’s #33 that stands out more than all. “Your Fans Own Your Brand”. Today, businesses have a chance to understand, learn and communicate better than ever before with their consumers—but it’s now a two-way street. Today’s consumer is empowered and in control. Businesses can quite literally begin to personalize and target for a better customer experience and relationship. And the treasure trove of data available across the social web – especially when integrated with current enterprise data – can provide a holistic view of your consumers – wants, needs, likes, desires, etc. – and allow your business to thrive like never before. Now more than ever, it’s critical to understand, engage and empower today’s consumer for a better consumer experience.
Cut through the noise.
Break out into monitor & measure, Engagement, Marketing
Customer Care
Communications and PR
Marketing
Gov & Public Sector
Security
Sentiment management
Engagement of customers
Engagement with customers
Passengers increasing use of mobile and social throughout transit system.
Mobility increased use of social
Enabled outreach regarding emergency notifications
Service delivery teams perform deep listening to find opportunities to engage proactively
Reduced complaints
Enabled faster response time by monitoring social media
Automated routing of incoming social messages to appropriate Service desk
Driving positive reputation and common view of customer
When vandalism occurs, customers inform, authority responds. Can measure the demographics.
When a hurricane breaks, or rail lines, authority acts proactively.
When new initiatives are launched, authority can market to / communicate with their audience, monitor conversation and reply automatically.
Mobility has increased the use of social channels by their customers as they travel throughout the systems.
Service and Social is helping transit get on step closer to common view of customer.
Authority plans to extend their capability to support and communicate with customers across all channels including social, by adding SRM to their portfolio of CX enabling applications.
Cost of Ignoring?
Social Command “Center of Excellence”. 25 members of Social Customer Care, Communications (PR) and Marketing
Customers don’t care about silos. They want and need service.
Holistic and collaborative thinking, use of data enables GM to better know their customers.
Daily and real-time reports, enable to stay atop of social game.
Responding to enquiries, responding to complaints. Manage brand damage.
GM’s social media monitoring has also helped it navigate two costly recalls, when 1.4 million cars were recalled for faulty ignition switches, and the second in September when an additional 221,000 sedans were recalled for faulty break pads. The synchronized teams redressed customers’ grievances and did effective damage control by being responsive. Also able to identify flaws via Social listening, and engage accordingly.
Now the main disruption in delivering this sustainable growth is that your customer journeys have fundamentally changed in a relatively short period of time.
The channels by which your customers are interacting and purchasing are multiplying (shop, phone, email, web sites, search engine, social media) & Mobility has revolutionised the need for anywhere, instant, 24x7 information
The multitude of channels and the unpredictability of their access makes consistency of orders, products, prices, offers and experiences an extremely complex challenge.
Amongst these use cases, all facets of SRM are being applied to drive organizations to be more business and customer intelligent, and service the customers with modern communications.
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