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Customer Service Is The “New” PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The best PR agency in the world can’t hold a candle to employees who are empowered to do the right thing. Good PR and great customer service have never been more intertwined. A business can spend millions on brand reputation and community service. It can employ high-powered PR agencies. Use automation wisely.

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How Airlines Like Delta Hold Parents Hostage

Sword and the Script

For a mere eighty-eight additional dollars, the airline was kind enough to reassign us in a row together. The airlines are counting on it, indeed, I’d contend airlines, including Delta, prey on such emotions to separate a few more dollars from the consumer wallet. CSR #customer. Misery” as a Business Strategy.

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Trends in Social: Authenticity

5W PR

Whether it’s a simple customer service issue, or a large-scale communications crisis, addressing issues honestly wins consumers’ trust. Organizations from the MTA to United Airlines have learned this the hard way. A mismatched partnership may detract from your brand’s trustworthiness. Honesty is always the best policy.

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Regaining Public Trust After a Crisis

5W PR

If the crisis is something like your airline employees dragging someone out of his seat and off the flight because of a company policy. After that, increasing customer service ideas and implementing those should eventually get you back in good grace. Once trust has been violated, it’s always more difficult to gain it back.

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Why it’s important to prepare for a PR crisis

Prohibition

Will your customer service team receive an increased amount of calls, what about your website and social media channels? Your social media team might already have something for responding to customer service issues. It should be someone with authority to speak on what has happened. Who is monitoring those?

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10 Crisis Communication Tips Every Business Needs

Prohibition

United Airlines initially maintained that its decision to remove the passenger was justified. Through those events and subsequent discussions, it became clear that United Airlines’ policies surrounding overbooking flights and situations involving non-compliant passengers (as well as their customer service) required significant improvement.

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#19: Building a framework for reputation management

NewsWhip

It comes down to every customer service interaction. The Miracle on the Hudson, United airlines. Are you involved with that or does that get outsourced to other departments, or are you guiding that, or is there a PR agency involved? Chris: We have to be aware of everything, quite frankly. They took off as planned.