Newsfile

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This means that avoiding PR communication mistakes is probably high on your list of priorities. 4 Common PR Communication Mistakes (+ How to Avoid) As a PR pro, avoiding PR communication mistakes can help you build a positive corporate reputation and reap the benefits.

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Stuart Bruce

JULY 15, 2014

For example, last autumn, an initiative by British Gas, which is owned by FTSE 100 group Centrica, to use its Twitter account to promote customer service was greeted by hundreds of tweets pouring scorn on the company’s decision to raise energy prices ahead of winter.”.

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 9, 2021

But don’t immediately choose your MD – reserve them for if the crisis escalates. What will happen if a crisis does happen. Will your customer service team receive an increased amount of calls, what about your website and social media channels? But unfortunately a crisis can strike at any time.

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Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

These attacks can and do come from anybody – from angry customers to unlawful competitors – and require legal and crisis communication expertise to manage. Risk 3: A lack of bandwidth can leave you without a crisis communication home base. Marketing / Pr / Communications. Customer service.

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JANUARY 17, 2022

With the recent increase in the use of social media in crisis situations, organisations across all sectors need to understand the benefits of incorporating it into their crisis plan. In fact, most experts agree that social media needs to be treated as a vital part of any company’s crisis communication plan.

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5W PR

JUNE 15, 2020

It’s infinitely better to stand up and admit where things went wrong, either personally or corporately. There’s often no need to take the blame for something that isn’t the brand’s direct responsibility, but it’s always a good look to be seen taking leadership of a crisis response. That doesn’t mean pandering.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 23, 2019

But a new survey out of the Center for Public Relations at USC Annenberg shows that isn’t happening among some PR pros and corporate communicators. The annual survey polled 210 CEOs, 1,583 PR professionals and 378 students with an eclectic mix of questions to develop the 2019 Global Communications Report.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

When a crisis hits the news, we are reminded of a valuable lesson: that companies and businesses often have to act fast in order to prevent further damage from taking place. Crisis communications is an important aspect to tackle as a business owner. This guide is written to assist in every aspect of crisis communication.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 15, 2018

Starbucks routinely engages with its customers on Twitter and other social platforms, responding to many questions and customer service issues. All five of these recent corporate “first responders” behaved in a fashion aligned with the brand involved. Starbucks’ solution to a venti problem.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 28, 2017

Public relations, marketing, and communications aren’t known for their futurist perspectives. More often than not, we’re reacting to the latest and greatest, from crisis communications (when the news is bad) to rapid response/newsjacking (when the news is good). How Do Predictive Analytics Apply to PR?

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JANUARY 14, 2022

The purpose of a PR Crisis Plan is to help you make quick and effective decisions when faced with negative publicity from a wide range of sources, including customer complaints, faulty products, product recalls and corporate scandals. 11 Steps to Effectively Managing a PR Crisis. The PR crisis team should consist of.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 18, 2014

Why: Once perceived as a peer-to peer movement, attitudes towards the “collaborative economy” are quickly evolving in the corporate world. Why: In this post from the WUL vault, two very different attitudes to customer service and technology caused me to question whether too much technology makes us… well, you know.

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Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

These attacks can and do come from anybody – from angry customers to unlawful competitors – and require legal and crisis communication expertise to manage. Risk 3: A lack of bandwidth can leave you without a crisis communication home base. Marketing / Pr / Communications. Customer service.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

To their credit, the team behind @ATTCares is making an effort to respond to some of the criticism, but the effort is robotic and surely hamstrung by corporate rules. For example, bring your PR and customer service teams into the advertising planning process. The way to reverse this is to make easy for customers to complain.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 3, 2020

The tool has several use cases including identifying the most influential reporters covering the competition or identifying “the most influential voices during a crisis.” She joined the company as a sales associate in 1987 and before her promotion served as the company’s chief customer service officer.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 18, 2014

Why: Once perceived as a peer-to peer movement, attitudes towards the “collaborative economy” are quickly evolving in the corporate world. Why: In this post from the WUL vault, two very different attitudes to customer service and technology caused me to question whether too much technology makes us… well, you know.

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Cision

JUNE 3, 2015

Strong reputations are constructed by expert builders knowledgeable in mess age mediums, audience perceptions, timely communications, etc.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Most schools offer the basic courses such as Introduction to PR, Writing, Research, Campaigns, Case Studies, and Crisis Communications. If you use this as the requirement, the good news is that public relations curricula across the board seem to meet the requirement. How has your PR education prepared you for your career?

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Cision

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In non-crisis times, this is simply social care (customer service). In a crisis, the viability of your social care program demonstrates that social channels are a means to reach you and to get answers to specific questions that a stakeholder may have. Although this may seem somewhat impersonal, scalability is key.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Each corporate PRCA member will be expected to engage with a local school each year. In 2019 purpose continued to emerge as a theme in corporate leadership as a means of reconnecting organisations with society. It’s an issue that is quickly rising up the corporate agenda. Selling is only one outcome of working with influencers.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 7, 2022

You want to take immediate action but make sure that your long-term goals aren’t set back by the short-term crisis. How important is crisis management? The first rule of crisis communication is to acknowledge the problem as quickly as possible. How to establish an effective crisis management team.

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MaccaPR

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Four years ago, Shankman sold to Vocus his free HARO service, which, at the time , had a user base of 30,000 journalists and bloggers and more than 100,000 businesspeople and PR professionals! Many corporate CEOs would love to give a TED talk, as you have – what advice do you have for aspiring TedX speakers? Source: Amazon ).

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Because other than my limited (primarily to Twitter and the company’s customer service hot line) communications with Pepco, I really had no idea what their efforts entailed. Our crisis communications plan consist of pre-event, event, and post-event reporting guidelines and information.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Of the many things that play into a brand’s reputation, there are a few that you have control over: customer service, your online presence, and corporate social responsibility. Happy customers and word of mouth referrals lead to an increase in sales, which are worth more in the long run than advertising.

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Stuart Bruce

JULY 23, 2017

In reality social media should ‘live’ in each and every corporate function as it has a vital role to play in customer service, marketing, public relations, human resources and numerous other functions. Each should use social media to support whatever its objectives are for supporting the organisation.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Internet and social media have changed the game for all businesses, from large corporations to Mom-and-Pop shops. If you are currently running your own business, not having an online presence will only hurt when it comes to getting new customers. Alternatively, they can hire a specialist in the field. Effective Returns.

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Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Stuart Bruce speaking at the IATA Crisis Communications in the Social Media Age conference. (c) This morning I gave a keynote at the global ‘Crisis Communications in the Social Media Age’ conference in Istanbul. Gigantic multi-national and trans-national corporations have no respect for borders or governments.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 12, 2016

Ownership is a strong word in the high-stakes game of corporate social media turf wars – yet consensus increasingly points to PR as primary proponents. A recent survey by the employment agency, The Creative Group , says corporate executives are increasingly inclined to pin the communications shop with such responsibility.

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