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Why You Should Hire a Crisis Communications Agency?

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Having a crisis communication plan in place ahead of time reduces confusion, ensures an effective communication flow, and improves messaging timeliness during or after a crisis. The basics of good crisis communications are the same for every company. For a free consultation, please call 0113 430 4160 now.

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Five Ways to Optimize Your Social Networks for Crisis Communication

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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. Have additional resources available (and conspicuous).

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PR and social media set for continued growth

Stuart Bruce

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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Survey says PR Best Positioned to Manage Corporate Social Media

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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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Why it’s important to prepare for a PR crisis

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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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Study Reveals Gaps Between the CEO and PR in Communications Goals, Issues and Technology

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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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The State of Social Media in 2017

Stuart Bruce

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.