I think we need to start with a couple presuppositions about social media:
1) It’s the wild west of social media.
2) This isn’t rocket science – it’s about old school customer service.
3) Knee jerk reactionary business owners will always blow things out of proportion, dodge accountability, and blind themselves to what’s really happening to their brand through the eyes of clients. You don’t need social media for that…. it’s been that way for centuries. Of course reviewers shouldn’t be marked as “problem guests” for writing a critical review – that’s poor real-world management of information, and not about the nature of the information itself. This is a major component of the flawed (more…)