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    How H&R Block Uses Social Media to Enhance Customer Relations

    by Michael Stelzner / February 18, 2011

    social media expert interviewIn this video I interview Jennifer Love, Senior Vice President of Communications at H&R Block. Jennifer shares how H&R Block adapts conversations across all channels to create customer experiences which bring in tons of referrals.

    You'll hear how she adapts her social media tactics to get the most value out of the 120-day tax season and why she strives to pull in questions and how she answers them in a challenging real-time environment.

    Be sure to check out the takeaways below after you watch the video.

    Here are some of the things you'll learn about H&R Block's social media communication plan in this video:

    • Why it's important to engage with customers on their channel of choice
    • How to use different tactics on Facebook, Twitter and on your blog
    • How to share tips and helpful content as related to their customers needs in the tax cycle
    • How to create a one-on-one environment by assigning one pro for each person and monitoring results
    • How to invite people to go off the grid to find solutions one-on-one (6 out of 10 of these people come back online to say how happy they are)
    • Why you need to be empathic, think about solutions and try a variety of different things
    • How to set up an internal social media hub to have the social media savvy experts ready to respond to questions as they arise
    • The tool Jennifer uses to manage trending topics, know who has answered what and figure out how to improve the customer's experience
    • Why you don't have to answer everything and how to leverage generic answers to help thousands of people.

    Connect with Jennifer on Twitter @JLoOnTheGo and check out @HRBlock, @HRBlockAnswers, H&R Block's Facebook page, their website, blog and the Get It Right Community.

    What did you learn from this video? What social media tactics do you use to improve customer relations? Please leave your comments below.

    Tags: Social Media Strategy

    About the authorMichael Stelzner

    Michael Stelzner is the founder of Social Media Examiner and the Social Media Marketing World conference. He's host of the Social Media Marketing Podcast and he's founder of the Social Media Marketing Society. He also authored the books Launch and Writing White Papers.
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