Hypatia Research Group Announces "Leveraging Social Channels for Customer Service & Support"

May 14, 2012 - PRLog -- Industry analyst and market research firm Hypatia Research Group announces a new primary research study entitled “Leveraging Social Channels for Customer Service & Support“, [excerpt at:http://www.hypatiaresearch.com/blogmeister.html] which details current trends, organizational challenges, and business case justification.

Hypatia Research Group surveyed 526 organizations, (each respondent utilizes,  recommends, influences, holds budget or veto power over the purchase of social analytics and intelligence software) and found that return on investment from customer service and support initiatives is higher than other business use cases. In fact, 17.8% of customer service and support executives realize greater than 5% return on investment--defined as a percentage of total annual marketing spend.  Another 20% realize between 3%-5% return on investment.

Leslie Ament, http://www.hypatiaresearch.com/expertise/team.html vice president, and senior analyst at Hypatia Research Group stated, “Organizations that adopt social intelligence tools, combined with best practices for rules-based business process workflows are empowered to utilize their social channels as decision support and customer engagement for value creation.” Ament continued, “Our analysis reveals that "customer experience" is an intangible metric.  True customer engagement has a higher probability of tangible outcome.  Effective usage of social intelligence technologies may well create a differentiation for early adopters.” (Excerpted from “Social Analytics & Intelligence: Converting Context to Actionable Insights”, ©2012 Hypatia Research Group. http://store.hypatiaresearch.com/socialanalyticsandintell...)

Over 526 respondents with direct accountable for selection or use of social analytics software and services were utilized for this primary research. Respondent profiles include: 37.5 large enterprises, 33.9% mid-market and 28.6% SMB. Parties interested in this research may contact ZGR@hypatiaresearch to inquire about licensing.

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