The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Social customer service: the challenge for brands in 2013”.

Luke Brynley-Jones says, “In recent years social customer service has endured crises and successes in equal measure. Here’s a quick evaluation of where we are today, with some pointers for the future.

For an increasing number of people, social media is the first place they turn when they experience a problem.

Fewer than 50% of companies are actively responding to these enquiries and many of those are using cost-cutting copy and paste tactics, which is exactly what call centres were criticised for”.

Social customer service: the challenge for brands in 2013

‘Econsultancy’ Blog