What you missed: Online Reviews and Customer Service
Your customers are talking about you… are you listening?
As our panelists shared through live demonstrations “behind the curtain” of their Yelp, Trip Advisor, and Hootsuite dashboards, online review tools not only provide helpful feedback, but also create unique opportunities for timely customer service reponse, and empower your best customers to become your brand champions.
Best practices and helpful tips from the pros (what you missed):
Some of the best advice of the night was captured on Twitter, including:


Lessons Learned on Social Media
As social media becomes a more common and integrated tactic, we have lots of examples of “What Not To Do.” A search on Google for “lessons learned in social media” yielded 63,500,000+ results. There are 108,000,000 results for “social media mistakes.” So why jump into the fray about social media lessons? Because so many of the lessons learned are tactical, but rarely do we discuss the strategic source of all of these “mistakes” from which lessons can be learned. Myself and my colleagues at Social Media Club Hawaii are not without our mistakes. Every single one of us has had an “Oh, Oh” moment. But we’ve learned from them and I’ve noticed some core elements to both the mistakes and the solutions. In short, there are some business lessons to be learned from these millions posts and Social Media Club of Hawaii wants to start a discussion about how social media can actually improve business operations.
What You Need To Know About Online Reviews and Customer Service On Social Media
According to The Local Consumer Review Survey in 2012, approximately 72% of consumers surveyed said that they trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations, while 52% said that positive online reviews make them more likely to use a local business.
What you missed: LinkedIn Groups
Who knew LinkedIn could be such fun?
It was a full house for our first event of the year held at our new host venue, historic Fuller Hall at YWCA Laniakea in downtown Honolulu. In addition to great networking and learning, guests were able to order pupus and cocktails from Cafe Julia‘s new Pau Hana menu.
LinkedIn Groups: How, What, Where, Why for Professionals & Businesses
Heeeeeeere we come! Lots of you have been asking about when we’re meeting next and here we go. A new year. A new venue. A new Board of Directors. Lots of good things happening at SMCHI and we want to help you kick off your 2013 with some professional insight useful to everyone – not only social media geeks.
Our first event for 2013 is sure to be a hit with professionals of all types.
LinkedIn is one of the most actively used social network for busy professionals and one of its most powerful tools is LinkedIn Groups. Perhaps that is why there is over 1.5 Million LinkedIn Groups.






