Social Customer Service is new. Social Media is the biggest thing happening to the customer service industry since the mid 1960s when modern day call centres were born. It is taking customers and organisations into untested ways of relating: transparently, collaboratively, instantly. The consequences of great and poor service are forever changed.

Customer appetite has promoted this form of interaction to the very front of a race to understand. How do digital brands and empowered customers actually behave?

Social Customer Service has become Marketing's R&D lab and a listening hub for the rest of the organisation. It is now where corporate reputations are most likely to be won and lost.

'Delivering Effective Social Customer Service' is a complete reference for achieving excellence in this new discipline. It caters to both novice and expert. It is perfect source material for service leaders and digital marketers to read together. Every CXO will recognise in the book a blueprint from which to build their next generation organisation. Even ambitious team leaders should snag a copy for instant subject matter expertise kudos!

The centre of the book offers an in depth self-assessment of the competencies that matter. The book is jammed full of strategic insight, action lists, best practice tips and interviews. All the resources anyone needs to build a solid strategy and roadmap.

Early adopter workshops based on the book have already taken place and will continue to be offered as another way of engaging with the book's key lessons. An online resource of the reference material is also provided. Options for an online community are under consideration.

This book is the first of its kind. A distillation of what has so far been collectively discovered. Then filtered and expanded through the collective experience of two leading authorities on customer service: Carolyn Blunt and Martin Hill-Wilson.

About the Author

Carolyn Blunt and Martin Hill-Wilson are the top two 'Most Respected People in the UK Contact Centre Industry' according to readers of Call Centre Helper magazine. They have collaborated to bring you this resource for social customer service at a time when many organizations are crying out for help.

Carolyn Blunt is Managing Director of Real Results Training Consultancy, a people development company that specializes in contact centre customer service training. For the past decade, Carolyn has been writing, speaking and training on contact centre customer service, and has been observing the positive and negative impacts of using social media for customer service first hand.

@carolynblunt
Carolyn@real-results.co.uk

Martin Hill-Wilson is a customer service and social business strategist. His company Brainfood Consulting provides customer strategy services to a range of B2B and B2C brands. Martin is also a long-tern member of the UK customer service community passing on his expertise as a keynote speaker and blogger.

@martinhw
martin@brainfoodextra.com

Reviews
Delivering Effective Social Customer Service is a complete reference for achieving excellence. It tackles the big strategic planning issues and also provides a wealth of practical best practice advice. Regardless of where you are on your social customer service journey, this book delivers a wealth of actionable insight. (Call Centre Helper, November 2013) It goes without saying that Blunt and Hill-Wilson s book will stay relevant for a good while yet . (Elite Business, November 2013) This book is an excellent introduction for those companies seeking to develop an online customer service resource through social media platforms and forums. It highlights the major minefields and provides workable, practical advice for organisations operating in any industry. (B2B Marketing, December 2013)



Book Information
ISBN 9781118662670
Author Martin Hill-Wilson
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 513g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm * 21mm