Robert D. La Gesse, Chief Disruption Officer, Rackspace Discusses The Crucial Necessity Of Knowing Your Customer And Understanding How To Address Everything From A Crisis To The Everyday Question Quickly And Effectively
Many customers are sitting listening to hold music waiting for their problem to get resolved. Instead of stewing privately, they are now airing their grievances publicly to anyone and everyone that will listen. The BP oil spill and Toyota recalls have shown how people are using social media tools to give pissed off customers a new voice – and it’s a megaphone. Knowing your customer and understanding how to address everything from a crisis to the everyday question quickly and effectively is critical. We'll talk about some big flubs, how the ball was dropped, what could have been done differently and the value of social support to help customers win.
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Rob says, "I love Social Media and how I connect to customers there - but I call my team Social Support, because that is more accurate. We support customers using Social Media - we don't pitch. Glad to address the Global Product Management Talk, a great application of social tools in support of the professional product management community!"
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Monday, June 18, 2012 at the simultaneous times of 10:30-11:30 AM Pacific / 12:30-1:30 PM TEXAS TIME / 1:30- 2:30 PM Boston Eastern Time, which is 6:30 – 7:30 PM in London
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Questions For Discussion
PreQ: Please introduce yourself, where you are tweeting from & your involvement with #prodmgmt
Q1 "What is "Social Support" and how is that different than Social Media?
Q2 How do you measure the effectiveness of "Social Support"?
Q3 What is required to implement "social support" effectively?
Q4 Examples of catastrophes that could have been avoided if "social support" was in place
Q5 Who should be on the Social Support team?
Q6 Why isn't everyone doing this?
About Robert D. La Gesse
Rob LaGesse is a Serial Entrepreneur, Software Developer, and Customer Junkie. As the Chief Disruption Officer, he heads up social media efforts at Rackspace. His passion is taking care of customers and he goes to great lengths to do so. Though he was hired as the Director of Software Development for the Rackspace Cloud, he soon realized his heart was in “who” they were writing software for, and not the software. He says he was building for the Internet before we had the Internet, writing wireless apps before many had wireless and doing large scale software testing before it was cool. However, he was unhappy building software because he wanted to build something he could get feedback on NOW – like customer satisfaction.
Robert said, "In my team I am looking to get people that know the products, the company and how the company works rather than them actually knowing how to solve customer issues."
Contact Rob
blog: http://www.lagesse.org
twitter: @kr8tr
Tim C. Johnson is co-hosting
Tim C. Johnson is a Product Marketing expert and Author of the "It's About Value" product marketing blog dedicated to ridding the world of MABUSHI (look up the definition at value-prodmktg.blogspot.com). Johnson has 20+ years of sales and marketing experience in software ranging from end-user applications to development tools, databases, ERP, systems management, security and cloud. Tim is a husband, dad, Cub Scout and Boy Scout leader who occasionally also finds time to do wood turning.
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From Rob's blog: we focus a lot on how Social Media can help us help customers win. That is our strategy. Please steal it – emulate it – make all my experiences with brands better by making them more engaged with me. But put real people behind those accounts and hashtags – people that are empowered to make a difference, and people that really give a damn. That isn’t Marketing. That is Social Media as a Service.
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