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Please Aggravate Me: Is Gamifying Customer Service a Reality

Convince & Convert

What if we took it to another level and gamified customers’ live call interactions with CSRs (customer service reps) to help palliate customers’ on hold experience, as well as allow companies to benefit and receive a cost savings? gamers ages 10 to 65, play games on social networks or casual game websites.

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Please Aggravate Me: Is Gamifying Customer Service a Reality

Convince & Convert

What if we took it to another level and gamified customers’ live call interactions with CSRs (customer service reps) to help palliate customers’ on hold experience, as well as allow companies to benefit and receive a cost savings? gamers ages 10 to 65, play games on social networks or casual game websites.

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How B2B Buyers Really Use Social Media: Insights from the 2012 Buyersphere Report

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Twenty-something buyers are twice as likely to use social media somewhere in the buying process (49%) that 31-40 year olds, and almost 4X as likely than those aged 51+. Responders said that “word of mouth” (WOM) is the most useful source of information, and it is used at every stage of the buying cycle.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Look to Yelp and Forums When you get beyond social networks, the heaviest concentration of influential impressions is on ratings and reviews sites (32%), followed by discussion boards/forums at 29%. Maybe it has to do with the size of the item or big ticket item (cost). That’s a good starter list for Mass Influencers.

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How to Use Engagement Marketing to Acquire More Customers

Single Grain

For example, referral marketing – a strategy in which brands incentivize loyal customers to promote their products or services via personal referrals (similar to word of mouth, except that WOM is organic) – will have significantly higher rates of success than cold calling potential leads. The Benefits of Engagement Marketing.

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It pays to provide Support with Social Media

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The issue of the customer experience always becomes how do we improve it and how are we going to pay for it – since the contact center is typically considered a cost center. But after you look at the research below it will be hard to call the contact center a cost center for long. Why not use Social Media to delight your customers.

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Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master

Convince & Convert

We Are Not Alone Serving as the organization’s advocate for adopting social media can be a test of passion and commitment. With the low/no cost of entry, it does cost time – your time. Personally, I have had to serve in the positions of jester, leper, and pariah in my efforts to have others adopt social media strategies.