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Crisis Communication for Small Businesses: A No-Nonsense Guide

5W PR

Building Your Crisis Response Framework The foundation of effective crisis management starts with a clear framework. Small businesses need a structured approach that’s both comprehensive and manageable. Choose team members who demonstrate good judgment and stay calm under pressure.

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Building Brand Invincibility Requires Conscious Compassion

Melissa Agnes

This episode explores: How the world of customer service has changed since United Breaks Guitars. How no customer should be seen as “statistically insignificant” – and if that is the mindset and culture within your organization, you have some work to do. Connect on LinkedIn. Connect on Facebook.

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The Importance of Social Media in Crisis Management

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Social media is an increasingly important element in a successful crisis management approach. 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. What is Crisis Management?

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How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

Melissa Agnes

Risk 3: A lack of bandwidth can leave you without a crisis communication home base. If a viral crisis were to strike and hundreds (or more) of people were to navigate to your corporate website for more information, would your website crash due to an overload of traffic? Customer service. Manufacturing / Production.

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Be Human: 4 Lessons From xPotomac 2015

Cision

If you want content to take off and go viral, think about emotional storytelling, not necessarily what everyone else is doing. Examples from their recent book covered how a “no email” culture helped increase one company’s productivity and communication, while a “no call center” solution increased a bank’s customer service.

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How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

Melissa Agnes

Risk 3: A lack of bandwidth can leave you without a crisis communication home base. If a viral crisis were to strike and hundreds (or more) of people were to navigate to your corporate website for more information, would your website crash due to an overload of traffic? Customer service. Manufacturing / Production.

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Why it’s important to prepare for a PR crisis

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Each PR crisis will affect each company, brand or individual in a different way – that’s because they’re all different. And not every company has an appropriate response to that specific crisis. This is where effective PR crisis management comes in. Create a written crisis plan.

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