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Crisis Management for B2B Tech Companies: A PR Perspective

5W PR

This could involve security shortcomings, intellectual property theft, service disruptions, or even a poorly received product launch. This team should include representatives from various departments such as PR, legal, engineering, and customer service. Training and drills A plan on paper is just the first step.

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New Rules That Every PR Person Should Know

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Any PR pro who lacks basic SEO and web analytics knowledge should seek additional training, even if it’s basic free background like Moz’s analytics tutorial. But today so-called “thought leadership” is also relevant to consumer product companies. The lines between paid and earned media are blurring.

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7 Signs Your Company Is Ready To Step Up Its PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

These early arrangements can include a junior in-house employee or possibly a “shared” situation where the PR function is wedged into marketing or even customer service. Your innovative new product is close to launch…but competitors are close behind. How to know when to bring in the PR professionals.

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How to Prepare a PR Crisis Plan

Prohibition

For example: A lawsuit alleging dangerous product defects. Corporate impropriety, such as fraud, theft, negligence, corruption, deception, poor customer service etc. Having someone from legal, customer service, communications, and public relations on the team ensures that all bases are covered.

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Improved Social PR via the Employee Advocacy Route

Waxing UnLyrical

You could be connected to exactly who you are trying to reach through your employees, whether they are customers, partners or potential employees. You could connect your customer service team with customers, your sales team with prospects and bring your entire workforce closer to who they are serving via employee advocacy.

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#19: Building a framework for reputation management

NewsWhip

And the reality and what we always train our internal teams on is to understand, and I’m sure this resonates for a lot of your audience, there’s no action we can take these days as companies that can go unnoticed by the media. It comes down to product launches. It comes down to every customer service interaction.