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Less than a year after her disastrous issue-made-crisis on account of her serious lack of proper crisis management , Deen has created a new company, Paula Deen Ventures, which is reported to be backed by Phoenix-based investor, Jahm Najafi. Or did last year’s crisis bury her too deep? Case Studies'
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Anyone Could Need Crisis Management (…and at Anytime). is suffering a crisis. As our VP of Marketing Tech previously summarized : In a crisis management situation, something has gone wrong and your brand is on fire. s PR reps/trusted advisors/crisis comms ride-or-dies, deny the fire of its resources we shall.
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The extremely smart Nick Morgan of Public Words recently published an article that reveals the results of a study on stress. The study shows that “stress – and the emotions of frustration, anxiety and fear that go with it – are contagious.” So what does this mean for your crisis preparedness?
And a poorly handled print or broadcast interview could turn a relatively benign issue into a full-blown crisis. Which brings us to Talk about Talk, a semi-regular (I’ll share something whenever I find an example from which we can all learn) feature here on the Polaris bog about media interview and presentation skills.
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Studies show that brand loyalty plays a huge role in why people spend their money the way they do. MediaTraining With the reach of today’s media formats and the explosion of publications, mediatraining is important for a much larger number of people in an organization.
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He might have a point if you simply look at how social media can be used for consumer marketing or customer service. He apparently fails to understand social media’s importance for corporate affairs, corporate reputation, investor relations, human resources, CSR and crisis communications to name but a few.
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