Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Don’t think your crisis plan has blind spots? Let me throw three common crisis scenarios at you and you can reflect on whether or not your team is prepared for each of them – and don’t assume you know the answer, actually go and find out! If it were hacked, could it present some serious threats to your reputation?

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PR Fuel

MARCH 25, 2025

Your brand’s reputation is one of its most valuable assets, but it can crumble in an instant. One negative news cycle, a viral social media backlash, or a product failure can undo years of hard-earned trust. appeared first on eReleases.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 4, 2022

But the joke infuriated many TikTok users, including our very own Chris Harihar, whose tweet went viral. I’ll flesh out strategies in my next post, but the steps toward cancel club redemption are similar to any reputation crisis playbook – but on steroids. The same rules apply for sarcasm and snark in my view.

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Onclusive

JUNE 1, 2023

Forward-thinking brands are already embracing the strategic advantages that social listening tools can offer when it comes to managing brand reputation, crisis detection, and optimising comms strategy. Yes, that’s right, it’s not just for marketing teams! So, they must be monitored and analysed closely.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 13, 2018

If you follow my work, then you know that helping organizations become crisis ready is not just what I do professionally, but it is one of my biggest passions. The typical act of crisis preparedness looks something like this: An organization tasks a department or small team of people to create a crisis management plan.

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Melissa Agnes

JULY 3, 2018

Thanks to high-profile crises, viral issues, and fun television series like Scandal , crisis management is being seen more and more as a “sexy” and thrilling profession or service offering. Crisis management advisors and consultants are not supposed to be the risk. What makes me say this? Olivia Pope’s life is glamorous.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This is even more important for business buyers, where the selling cycle is longer, the product or service typically more costly, and the reputation ruboff more potent. The voracious appetite for viral stories on social platforms will assure plenty of exaggerated, distorted, and downright fake stories that seek to stoke tribal divisions.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Armchair PR experts get lots of mileage from critiquing crisis management by major brands and businesses this time of year. But what about the crisis situations that are handled well? But in the spirit of fair play, here are some examples of reputation management that succeeded in 2017. Pepsi’s graceful mea culpa.

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

company leaders report misinformation directly impacting their corporate reputation, with financial consequences following close behind. For brands, the stakes couldn’t be higher consumer trust , once lost to viral falsehoods, proves difficult to rebuild. Recent data shows that 63% of U.S.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

PR, on the other hand, with its ties to reputation and crisis management, is thought to play a more defensive role, designed to protect the corporate brand. A sudden market shift or crisis. PR and marketing are perceived very differently, especially in a corporate environment.

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PRSay

JUNE 7, 2021

In today’s unforgiving media environment, decades’ worth of arduous work to build a strong reputation can be destroyed in less than a week. Organizations are only as strong as how they respond in moments of crisis. A red team can expose reputational vulnerabilities in a company and flaws in its crisis-response plan.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Can any organization be a crisis communication pro? Being crisis-ready, crisis-intelligent, isn’t a mysterious quality that only a few people or organizations possess. So what would it take for your organization, your team, to be considered a crisis communication pro? Absolutely, why not? Prevent the preventable.

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Onclusive

MARCH 24, 2022

Understanding your audience and their journey so that you have clarity around who to target now and in the future, what to say and when to say it — helping you to ensure your stories resonate and contribute to improved brand reputation.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 14, 2020

Lowe’s builds its reputation. It delivered 150 cans of Coors Light, and, of course, the social media coverage went viral. My personal favorite move from an organization during this crisis is from the hotel industry. Others have struggled to strike the right note in such a serious situation. But still others have stepped up.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 25, 2017

At least one company learned something about PR and reputation from the United Airlines fiasco earlier this month. But most of the images, which quickly went viral, showed a deeply distressed mother of twin toddlers, sobbing openly, as the flight attendant shouts down another passenger who comes to her aid. This is how it’s done.

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Cision

JUNE 3, 2015

Is prevention of a crisis possible? It’s unlikely that you can do anything to avoid the instant virality of anything remotely salacious or damning to a company, its executives or its brand. Strong reputations are constructed by expert builders knowledgeable in mess age mediums, audience perceptions, timely communications, etc.

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Melissa Agnes

JUNE 3, 2014

Identifying the trigger points that indicate that an issue needs to be escalated to the crisis team. An issue is an issue and a crisis is a crisis. Today’s reality is that no matter where an issue – but especially a crisis – originates, it will develop an online presence. It doesn’t.

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Prowly

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Typically, this is to build brand awareness, improve brand reputation, manage a crisis, or promote products, services and ideas. They monitored what happened with the 2013 Superbowl and, when electricity suddenly went out, one tweet made them go viral. But only if you've been in the industry for 10 minutes.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 30, 2014

And worse, what if it gets picked up and begins to go viral with negativity about your organization? There are different levels of issues, ending with an issue that needs to be escalated to the crisis team. Case Studies Crisis and Issues Management' A hashtag brandjack campaign is a possible risk – and not just on Twitter.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 26, 2019

Being the steward of a company’s image and reputation comes with the job. To show leadership during a serious crisis situation. If the company’s reputation is in jeopardy, its CEO becomes the chief emergency officer by default. It’s not always about crisis management. Here are some of the most common. .

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Melissa Agnes

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Today’s crisis realities present some of the biggest challenges and obstacles to be faced in a crisis or emergency. In fact, if you aren’t prepared, today’s crisis realities will work against you , rather than for you, in a crisis – making your task of effective crisis management extremely difficult.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 19, 2021

Therefore, the reach of an individual’s reputation has reached a level unimaginable to previous generations. It is not uncommon for reputation issues to lurk on the internet indefinitely, to explode virally to an audience of millions, or to carry someone from public support to public criticism within the span of a few hours.

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PRSay

APRIL 6, 2018

Viral videos. From a crisis management point of view, 2017 had it all! Why new rules are needed for crisis management. As creators of the award-winning digital crisis management platform, “In Case of Crisis,” we talk regularly to crisis management practitioners. United Airlines. Wells Fargo. Cyber thefts.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 15, 2018

A crisis situation presents abundant challenges for public relations and business leaders, not the least of which are the critical first communications. Five crisis PR first responses. The first statement in crisis response carries great importance, because it sets the tone for what will follow. Facebook dodges blame.

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Melissa Agnes

JUNE 5, 2018

Not to mention that, due to their emotional relatability, they present a high-risk for fast escalation and virality. The crisis ready formula for effective management. Fortunately, there is a 4-step Crisis Ready formula for effectively managing the majority of controversial issues. Crisis Ready. By Melissa Agnes.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 17, 2022

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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Cision

JULY 5, 2016

Our talented leadership team—among the best with whom I’ve ever worked–also positions us well to serve clients, both proactively and reactively, in building, strengthening and defending their reputations. Having a social media initiative go viral is not a good goal – what is the intended net result?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Few things are more satisfying than a brand handling a potential public relations crisis with grace, aplomb, and humor. Where’s your crisis PR readiness? Odds are the Crock-Pot team has a crisis communications plan in place, and it’s likely that it includes contingencies for real-life product malfunctions or accidents.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 15, 2014

Thus, there is a great need to protect the reputations of individuals and businesses. Rather, we consider a range of factors relating to a company or individual’s Internet crisis including, but not limited to: Jurisdiction and the statute of limitations. Internet Defamation Online Reputation Management' The potential damage.

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Cision

MAY 12, 2017

This stresses on the importance of mobile search and mobile-optimized websites adds to the importance of ranking higher in mobile search results, especially during a PR crisis when a breaking news is plastered all over the internet. As we saw with the recent United Airlines fiasco , crisis news doesn’t take time to go viral.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 13, 2018

Major organizations can be shaken by a careless tweet or a viral customer complaint. Any crisis communications team must be ready to respond at any hour to an escalating event, and that speed is vital. Communications professionals must act decisively to safeguard corporate reputation, and many worry that they may miss something.

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Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Don’t think your crisis plan has blind spots? Let me throw three common crisis scenarios at you and you can reflect on whether or not your team is prepared for each of them – and don’t assume you know the answer, actually go and find out! If it were hacked, could it present some serious threats to your reputation?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 28, 2018

Here’s a look at those who came out on top, and others who took a reputation beating last year. After “Today” show star Matt Lauer was abruptly fired following allegations of sexual misconduct, it seemed that NBC would take a terrible blow to its reputation. The Winners. Tired of hearing about Uber?

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

These two components combined, create a recipe for a viral situation that risks leaving a long-term negative association or sentiment towards your brand. Crisis Ready Rule: Emotion always overpowers reason. Was Crock-Pot Crisis Ready? So yes, Crock-Pot appears to be crisis ready – and kudos to them!

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Reputation Us

MARCH 16, 2022

If we can’t trust journalists from reputable media outlets, scientific studies, doctors, the government, the education system, marketing, or previous generations, who can we trust? However, he didn’t realize someone filmed him and posted it online, which quickly became viral. How Real is your Reputation? Wake up America!

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PRSay

APRIL 18, 2024

And we are influential to our teams, across our organizations and in our communities — demonstrating daily how smart, strategic communications can advance your brand, even in times of crisis. Big rewards don’t always follow big risks, but doing the right thing never goes out of style — especially during a time of crisis.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In his nearly 19 years at Amazon, Herdener has seen Amazon’s PR function move from a retail-consumer focus to a multifaceted approach that includes employee communications, social media, executive communications and reputational marketing. A facts-first approach to crisis management. It has been empowering for the teams.”.

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