Good Customer Service Goes a Long Way
Updated May 08, 2018
Good Customer Service Goes a Long Way
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Conversations
- Intelligence
Overall Satisfaction with Khoros Marketing (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
Across global marketing departments.
- Constantly updating and improving their product to keep it current and leading edge.
- Training modules are excellent, constant training on updates, low barrier of use for people to adopt the platform.
- Prompt technical support.
- Much is done remotely, more person to person check-ins between client reps and clients would be nice.
- I would love to be able to edit posts directly from Khoros after publishing instead of needing to go into the native platform to fix typos, etc.
- It's expensive, but it has enabled our global social media to be more coordinated and collaborative. We've gained a great deal of efficiency
Social media are mostly marketing and relationship building platforms for us. Research scientists make up a relatively small (but growing) part of the social media landscape. Life scientists are still more likely to contact via email or phone for technical assistance, mostly because their questions are highly complex. However, we are increasingly seeing questions via FB messenger from regions of the world not served by branch offices. So social care is becoming more important.
It has improved the management of our calendars and efforts. It has given us the tools we need to develop a strategy rather than doing social piecemeal, and it allows us to see what content works best on each platform. Khoros has really enhanced our ability to pick up on important conversations and make sure that we do respond to any customer queries through social. Also, the Intelligence piece of their platform is providing key voice-of-customer information for us as we develop campaigns and messaging that will resonate with our customers.
We are continuing to expand here. We have gained efficiencies through Khoros already in customer care, and we are seeing more collaboration and sharing of content and assets through the platform.
We are integrated with Google Analytics. We are looking at integrating with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Sprout Social could not integrate with Microsoft Dynamics when we were evaluating the platforms. Sprinklr and Khoros were the top two platforms we investigated; Khoros appeared to have better customer service, which is something we value highly. We use Meltwater for PR purposes and keep an eye on their social platform. However, when we were first looking at Spredfast and the other platforms, Meltwater was not a serious player in the social space. Kumfo has a relationship with Sitecore, the platform we use for our web site. For that reason, I keep an eye on them as well.
Khoros summit is an excellent way to immerse myself in social and get ideas and information from many different sources. I have found it amazingly useful, and I wish I could get at least half of the marketing department to attend. The webinars have always been high quality, and I pay attention to the emails I get indicating what has been published on the Khoros blog.
Khoros Marketing Feature Ratings
Using Khoros Marketing (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
20 - Marketing, Corporate communications
- social editorial calendar management and campaign planning
- evaluation of campaign performance, high- or over-performing content, identification of influencers
- social customer care and response
- We have been able to use the Intelligence leaderboard to identify over-performing content from scientific publishers that our customers typically follow and use that craft an agile, newsroom strategy for content creation
- We are able to obtain VOC from social listening
- Managing promotions or contests