Consumers: Social Care Response Can Boost Brand Perception

Social media is the preferred customer service channel for just 2% of consumers, far behind other channels such as phone (43%) and email (22%), finds a Parature survey of roughly 1,000 US adults. Even so, respondents aren’t shy about using social to interact with brands: 35% claim to have asked a customer service question on social media, while 35% have complained about a brand and 52% have praised a brand. Among those that got a response, 51% said it gave them a somewhat or much more favorable view of the brand. (more…)