HGS Interactive
HGS EPIC® Social Care
Transform social media into dynamic, interactive customer experience channels
Engage more on social, faster
Responding quickly online has become a strategic imperative. An online conversation can present a reputational risk or a big opportunity for gain.
To manage customer service on social and other digital channels, businesses are largely only focused on the customers talking to them — the “owned” conversations. But there is a huge volume of conversations off the brand channels — the “earned” conversations.
Using AI to filter and route mentions to the best brand representative means you can participate in all online conversations. AI detects, tailors, and predicts, all while improving quality and addressing negativity before it goes viral.
What is your social media score?
Obtain a free competitive analysis of your social media performance.
What is social customer care?
Social care is a strategic method of responding to customer questions, concerns, and mentions through not only social media channels (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) but also through other digital channels (e.g., online reviews, chat, messaging apps).
Working with clients and PR firms, the HGS EPIC®️ Social Care team responds to everyday inquiries efficiently while delivering appropriate messaging in the context of human rights, terrorist threat, natural disaster, pandemic, or political or legal issues.
But social care isn’t just about communicating. It’s about gathering insights from what customers are saying en masse. It’s about monitoring trends and gauging sentiment for decision making. A social care team can shape products, services, or an entire business.
What is HGS EPIC®️ Social Care?
HGS EPIC®️ Social Care solutions enable organizations to survive and thrive online using four main pillars.
Engage
- Both owned and earned mention response
- Creative, authentic responses
- Resolution and drive-to-purchase in-channel
- 24/7/365 coverage
- Faster response times
- Higher response rates
Protect
- Stop rumors
- Correct inaccuracies
- Minimize negative brand sentiment
- Maintain company valuation
- Protect IP and trademarks
- Uphold brand guidelines
Inform
- Owned and earned mention analysis
- Product, customer, and employee insights
- Immediate alerts for potential crises
- Real-time reports
- Competitor listening
- Emerging brand trends
Create
- Create memorable moments
- Amplify opportunities
- Create engaging content
- Build relationships with influencers
- Generate earned media coverage
- Increase NPS® score
Engage to improve your CX and brand reputation
We optimize owned and earned brand content and increase competitiveness in terms of response rate, sentiment, personalization, and more. Here’s how:
- Capture customer conversations and ensure active social listening
Pick up on brand mentions and patterns, and address negativity before a crisis. - Filter, sort, and triage mentions with AI
Focus on relevant keywords, use rule engines to prioritize, automate workflows, and never miss an opportunity to interact. - Respond with the right team, at the right time, with the right approach
Communicate quickly, authentically, and with context sensitivity using the brand voice. - Measure, optimize, and make data-driven decisions
Use data to build your brand image, build followers, improve quality, and optimize marketing campaigns.
Our tiered packages become more sophisticated as reliance on social deepens
HGS EPIC®️ Social Care packages range from social listening and analytics only, to complete social customer care packages.
HGS EPIC®️ LISTENING
Social listening and analytics
Our intro package:
- Unlimited listening for owned and earned mentions on over 350 million sites
- Translate mentions from up to 100 different languages
- Detailed, live, voice of the customer reporting dashboard
- Automated crisis and viral alerts
- Tech support team
HGS EPIC®️ PROFESSIONAL
Social listening and analytics with your team
Listening package PLUS:
- Unlimited licenses for your team to respond to social mentions
- Detailed team and content performance reporting dashboard
- Tech support and analytics team
HGS EPIC®️ CONCIERGE
Social listening and analytics with our 24/7 response team
Professional package PLUS:
- Our 24×7 social response team
- Real-time crisis and viral mention monitoring
- Free unlimited tech support and analytics team
- Live-chat team
- Content prioritization for speed
HGS EPIC®️ CONCIERGE PLUS
Social listening, analytics, our 24/7 response team, creative services, Sprinklr
Concierge package PLUS:
- Content creation and campaign support
- Sprinklr technology
HGS EPIC®️ wins awards across geographies
Best social media brand in the home and living category: For our five-year handling of end-to-end digital solutions.
ECCCSA most effective customer experience in social channels award: For our brand-building WhatsApp customer care in Europe.
Stevie business-to-business services winner: For social care that transforms business and delivers growth.
Creativity international social media campaign award: For our “New Work Shoes” Work@Home campaign.
Frost & Sullivan best practices award: For breakthrough social media customer care.
Boost competitiveness across the entire customer journey
When a business is lax about managing social interaction—or worse, makes a wrong move on social— it can deter prospects and face swift retribution from unhappy consumers. HGS EPIC®️ is a social media monitoring, brand management, online response, and customer care solution all in one.
AI-enabled
For filtering, sorting, prioritizing, predicting, and measuring social response across platforms, teams, and sites.
Omnichannel-integrated
For a 360-degree view of the customer journey and levels of customer satisfaction.
Scalable and fast
For exceeding industry-standard response times even as you layer on new products, services, team members, and channels.
Measurable and results-oriented
For improving CSAT and quality, increasing revenues, and increasing consumer engagements.
Our social playbook drives success
We design, build, execute, and optimize complex and high profile social media programs every day.
Based on nearly 500,000 social media agent-hours annually, the HGS EPIC®️ Social Playbook defines best practices for how to launch a social care operation that delivers high quality responses and meaningful data insights.
Social care FAQs
What are the key features of the HGS EPIC® Social Care solution?
HGS EPIC® Social Care enables you to :
- Set rules on how you want AI to filter, escalate, and tag your content
- Check your brand’s health across all channels
- Uncover critical audience mentions
- Track sentiment by channel and individual mention
- Automate your crisis monitoring and escalation response system
- Glean advanced audience and consumer insights
- Benchmark against competitors and industries
- Leverage conversational chatbots to reduce labor costs
What makes the HGS EPIC® Social Care team so special?
HGS Digital employs a team of 300+ social media care agents, community managers, data and quality analysts, and program leaders to support client engagements. HGS hires creative, autonomous, digital natives with excellent writing capabilities, experience as brand ambassadors, an appreciation of colloquialisms, and the ability to recognize online trends. Not only has the HGS EPIC® team developed a definitive playbook, we have a complete set of social agent recruiting standards and processes; a proven training curriculum on how to be a community manager; and team career pathing, coaching, and mentorship programs specific to the social care function. This team, and these scalable, repeatable processes, have helped to grow HGS’s social care business nine-fold in revenue in just 18 months.
Is HGS EPIC® Social Care available in multiple languages and 24/7?
Yes! Your dedicated team of professionals is available for the business days and hours of your choosing, or for full 24/7 support, including scaling for high-activity events. Onshore/offshore staffing allows for flexible availability and multi-language support.
Are the rules and categories for AI filtering and routing customizable?
Yes! Custom, automated workflows will help your brand prioritize the content that matters most. Alerts and flags help to avert crises. Real-time analytics and reporting tell you what consumers are saying about your brand.
What if I don’t need a team of agents?
HGS EPIC® Social Care begins with your strategy! Understanding your customer needs online is mission-critical. Most brands are only beginning to understand how to do that. The HGS EPIC® framework will take a consultative view of your current process, technology, opportunities, and yours and your competitors’ online reputations to help your brand better understand what is needed for your own custom strategy. The end goal—to make you number one in your customer’s eyes.
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