How Your Business Can Help Customers through Social Media Commerce
When your employees discuss your business or interact on social media they can — in mere seconds — make your company shine or seriously damage your business’s reputation.
For your customers, the most important aspect in a transaction is the experience they have, not the attributes of your product or service. Online or in person, your employees are your first-level, frontline customer service representatives.
Each staff member who helps your business run on a daily basis should have a hand in your customer service. How your employees feel about you, as their leader, and the culture in which they work has a lot to do with whether they take pride in their work. If they have a positive attitude when speaking to or connecting online with customers, they put their best foot forward.
Hiring employees who care — who are as emotionally invested in your dream as you are — can make all the difference in your customer service success.
As a small-business person, you are your own human resources department. You have to hire and fire based on your instincts — and the task is never easy. In your business, you are actually an employee to your clients, and your employees are there to help me make the magic happen. Customer magic goes on 24/7; a wow lasts only a moment or two.
To make the magic happen for your customers, you need loyal employees who support you. And although finding employees who think like you and have the same level of commitment to customer service is tough, keeping them happy is even tougher.
By using social media in smart ways, you and your employees can reach out to many more customers!

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AJAX
asynchronous JavaScript and XML. A technique used in web page development.

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API
application programming interface. A set of rules programs use to communicate with each other.

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color stop
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FTP
File Transfer Protocol. A network protocol useful for transferring files in a client-server relationship.

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HTML
HyperText Markup Language. The predominant language for building web pages.

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HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol. The primary networking language for the Internet.

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PHP
PHP Hypertext Processor. A scripting language that works well within HTML.

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socket
A technology that allows remote computers to maintain a persistent connection in order to communicate with each other.

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Structured Query Language. A programming language useful in managing relational databases.

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stateless protocol
An Internet procedure that completely breaks the connection between the client and the server after a transaction, meaning that the next transaction will require an entirely new connection.

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World Wide Web Consortium. The organization that sets international standards for the World Wide Web.