What Do You Do When a Customer Complains on Social Media?


By Nick Westergaard on May 2, 2014
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This week on Social Brand Chat presented by KXIC we discussed a recent issue involving a social media dust-up between Graze, a restaurant in Iowa City, and a father who was asked to leave because his baby was making too much noise. Many wonder what to do when a customer takes to social media with their gripes. Let’s chat about this.

The customer is always right. Even when/if the customer is wrong. Your happy customers don’t tell anyone, while your upset customers often tell 10 people. In the digital age, those 10 people now share it with their 100 friends on Facebook and so on and so forth. In spite of these shifts, these classic business maxims still apply. Remember this the next time a customer complains about your business on social media.

For this week’s social media news, we discussed the fact that, in spite of people grumbling about the decreased organic reach brands are seeing on Facebook, those using Instagram are seeing 60 times more engagement. Are you using Instagram?

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Do you have a question about social media you’d like answered? Ask in the comments below, on our Facebook page, or on Twitter using #SocialBrandChat. Check out previous episodes of the Social Brand Chat podcast here.

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Until next week, see you on the Internet!