Learn How Social Insights Help The Post Office Achieve Their Business Goals

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Hear Darren Jones, Social Media Manager at the Post Office, discuss how social insights help them to succeed in achieving the organisation's goals.

This video is a clip from "How to Use Social Data for Key Business Decisions" - watch the webcast on-demand.

Social insights is one of two of six of our social media goals, and all of this ladders up some broader business goals which you can see on the screen, and these business goals are aligned to our 20/20 vision, which, as with any strategy it's important always ladder up to those bigger goals if you are to get the respect by the board and others in the business. We use social media to deliver lots of things for the business, as you can see from that middle row, but social insights taps into two boxes particularly, which is to use insight to drive customer-centric decisions, to improve our service and experience in brands - online and in call centres. And the sixth box is about helping build brand advocacy throughout all audiences and to extend our reach by attracting a new kind of customer into the branch. What these all do together is help to make us more relevant, accessible and transparent as a business.

So, moving on then, the way we do this is with numerous dashboards within Crimson Hexagon. These dashboards cover products, competitors, campaign performance, channel performance, even content integration, and they're brilliant. They update in real time, they give us an instant snapshot of the voice of our customers from lots of different areas of our business. One of the dashboards is around measuring one of our customer experience measures, which is ease. Ease sits along breadth, relevance and credibility, which you can see at the bottom. We look at ease to find out how easy it is for customers to send parcels with us, and we split it between positive, neutral and negative. We then split up the negative responses even further, looking into staff knowledge and service, queue management and all the different things you'd expect within that group.

Looking at this is very important for us as it's a very competitive space. By looking at social media insights, it helps us to be more competitive and to stay abreast of the real world out there.