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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

Crisis communication is an important aspect of most PR roles. In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” So we may be in “crisis” far more often than we are in crisis.

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How to Prepare a PR Crisis Plan

Prohibition

Are you prepared for a PR crisis? Whether it’s a product recall, staff injury becoming public news or something else entirely, a PR crisis can happen to any business. Businesses of all shapes and sizes can fall victim to a PR crisis at any time. What is a PR Crisis? What is a PR Crisis Plan?

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Protecting Your Brand from a Crisis

Konnect Agency

Being slow to react to a crisis can be viewed just as unfavorably as not responding at all or providing a rushed response that lacks detail. Thus, having a prepared crisis communication plan is critical for every company. So what is crisis communication? Getting Ready.

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7 Lessons Every Marketer Can Learn From The CrossFit Instagram Crisis

MaccaPR

and Pepsi’s “ Black Lives Matter’’ TV ad bungle with Kendall Jenner – it would be easy to miss one of the smaller yet most portentous PR crisis of this year: The CrossFit Gym Member-Shaming Instagram Fail. CRISIS LESSON #1: EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE IS PRIVATE WILL BE SHARED PUBLICLY. The first rule for any online crisis ?

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

Cision

For instance, 48% of consumers start mobile research with a search engine and on an average, smartphone conversions are up by 64% as compared to the average desktop conversion rates. As we saw with the recent United Airlines fiasco , crisis news doesn’t take time to go viral. This will prevent bad links from passing PageRank.

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So Did Those 2014 Predictions for the Communications Industry Come True?

Ishmael's Corner

Prediction 1: The Pope’s Selfie Goes Viral. I expected the covers to come off of “Operation Knock Knock,” an NSA initiative to embed microscopic audio sensors into latex paint resulting in a PR crisis. Apparently, Amazon’s ill-fated phone consumed Mr. Bezo’s time in 2014. I figured the big event would happen at Easter Mass.

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The importance of (social) media monitoring

Barokas

PR crisis, with the most viral ones coming from Pepsi and everyone’s least favorite airline, United. Pepsi quickly pulled the ad, and issued an apology saying it “missed the mark” but many consumers pledged across social media to boycott the brand. Martin Luther King Jr., This inspired a new wave of outrage.