Social Media and Interactive Communications - A service sector reflective on the challenges for practice and theory (Hardcover)

The extent to which social media can potentially add value within various service contexts is not well understood. While at a general level it would seem that direct and immediate interactive communication with customers and stakeholders would be of benefit in terms of general communications, the integration of new media alongside more traditional marketing activities is not without difficulty. Many organisations appear seduced by what new technological communication channels are capable of but evidence suggests that those same organisations may have limited sensitivity to the appropriateness of employing social media to add value to the customers' service experience. Launching social media initiatives appears low cost and fairly straightforward, technically, but managing the subsequent interactions and engagement appropriately, and indeed profitably, can often be beyond a firm's resources and competencies. In this book the challenges of effectively managing interactive communications through social media is described in various service contexts, (e.g. healthcare, travel, small businesses) and within prevailing, yet ever more crucial marketing concepts, such as customer relationship management (CRM) and customer complaining behaviour. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Service Industries Journal.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Mark Durkin • Aodheen McCartan • Mairead Brady
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	134
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-65859-2
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > E-commerce Books > Computing & IT > Internet > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Sales & marketing > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-65859-6
Barcode:	9781138658592

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