Tout is new Twitter-like communications channel for VIDEO. 15 second messages. Today, I saw about a dozen short clips, apparently from an architect showing the contractor (or owner?) things that needed to be fixed on the project.
This could be a great way for a building products manufacturer to offer brief tips and ticks, and more important, to handle tech support inquiries. Open a channel. Print your TOUT tag on all your product packaging, so your customers will know how to reach you. Use you existing outreach channels - including your packaging - to encourage customers to put their issues on short videos and send them, so you can monitor the channel and provide answers. A quick visual demo may be enough to resolve the issue. Or else, you can answer by telling the person to call you directly for a detailed discussion. It puts correct information out into the Toutosphere (which is small now, but could easily go big) and shows that you're there for your customers all the time.
Naturally, this means you have to have someone monitoring Tout for you - either someone in house, or your outside PR agency perhaps. Social Media is about being engaged, after all.
This could be a great way for a building products manufacturer to offer brief tips and ticks, and more important, to handle tech support inquiries. Open a channel. Print your TOUT tag on all your product packaging, so your customers will know how to reach you. Use you existing outreach channels - including your packaging - to encourage customers to put their issues on short videos and send them, so you can monitor the channel and provide answers. A quick visual demo may be enough to resolve the issue. Or else, you can answer by telling the person to call you directly for a detailed discussion. It puts correct information out into the Toutosphere (which is small now, but could easily go big) and shows that you're there for your customers all the time.
Naturally, this means you have to have someone monitoring Tout for you - either someone in house, or your outside PR agency perhaps. Social Media is about being engaged, after all.