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Three lessons brands can learn from the Hockey Canada Scandal

NewsWhip

Guest blog by Lloyd Rang, a Canadian communications and crisis management expert. Canadian brands know this. If you want to appeal to Canadians, connecting your brand to the game has always been a safe bet. . For context, Tim Hortons’ brand DNA is hockey so their departure made headline news. Until a few days ago. .

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Why it’s important to prepare for a PR crisis

Prohibition

Brands and businesses know how important it is to protect their reputation. In the midst of a crisis, reputations that have been so hard to build can be easily destroyed and the effects can be hard to undo. It doesn’t take much to provoke a crisis, sometimes just a simple mistake on social media can be enough.

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Why it’s important to prepare for a PR crisis

Prohibition

Brands and businesses know how important it is to protect their reputation. In the midst of a crisis, reputations that have been so hard to build can be easily destroyed and the effects can be hard to undo. It doesn’t take much to provoke a crisis, sometimes just a simple mistake on social media can be enough.

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Want More Fans? See 3 Brands’ Secrets

Cision

Do you know what customers think about your brand? With brand journalism, you can increase customer loyalty and satisfaction. In fact, data from Content Marketing Institute reveals that 82 percent of consumers think more highly of a brand and are more likely to purchase after reading custom content. McDonald’s.

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4 Important Years in Copyright Law History

Cision

Refresh your memory on the two most basic rules of copyright, get a glimpse at a few recent rulings and start pinpointing how your brand should involve executives, managers and others in this discussion. Example: For those in the automobile, gaming or telecommunication industries, take note. You now know a thing or two about basic U.S.

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Top nine PR crises so far for 2019

Prohibition

Some of these came to light by members of the public calling brands out on social media for their slip-ups and others were campaigns by PR and marketing teams that simply did not turn out as planned. The brand played with its 30-year tagline, “the best a man can get”, and replaced it with “The best men can be”.

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Your profession needs you

Stephen Waddington

Lego and Patagonia are among my favourite brands. Patagonia seeks to use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis. I’m not suggesting we return to the 1950s, but I do think organisations should stop trying to fix their reputation with a veneer of public relations lipstick.