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Five lessons communications teams need to learn from Rogers’ PR disaster

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On Friday, July 8th, 2022, Rogers Communications accidentally shut off its customers’ cell phone, Wi-Fi and cable service for 24 hours, resulting in a PR disaster for the Canadian telecom giant. Rogers is Canada’s biggest telecommunications company and has 11 million subscribers. When they went dark, so did millions of Canadians.

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Three lessons brands can learn from the Hockey Canada Scandal

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Guest blog by Lloyd Rang, a Canadian communications and crisis management expert. Good crisis communications teams stay prepared for these kinds of events. Knowing how big and how fast a story is moving is critical to your response management. Lloyd is the President and Narrative Lead of Curious Public.

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Why it’s important to prepare for a PR crisis

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But other times share values falling sharply, lawsuits, contaminated or dangerous goods, investigations, or even a new, slightly controversial, marketing tactic you couldn’t wait to try may be enough to damage a brands reputation and enter a real crisis period. And not every company has an appropriate response to that specific crisis.

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Why it’s important to prepare for a PR crisis

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But other times share values falling sharply, lawsuits, contaminated or dangerous goods, investigations, or even a new, slightly controversial, marketing tactic you couldn’t wait to try, may be enough to damage a brands reputation and enter a real crisis period. For example Chinese telecommunications company Huawei was accused by the U.S.

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Top nine PR crises so far for 2019

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5) A phone company who didn’t communicate: Huawei’s damaged reputation. The Chinese telecommunications company has often been criticised for not practising transparency. The key of any crisis communication is to be proactive, transparent and accountable. They have been dealt many accusations by the U.S.

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Bad Reputation: The Co$t & Steps To Mitigate Risks

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The world’s in trouble, there’s no communication!”. This may be linked to a company’s actions, performance or communications. The Pentland Analytics study analyzed share-price fluctuations of 125 companies during the calendar year following a reputational crisis. –Joan Jett. TalkTalk lost $1.4

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Bad Reputation: The Co$t & Steps To Mitigate Risks

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The world’s in trouble, there’s no communication!”. This may be linked to a company’s actions, performance or communications. The Pentland Analytics study analyzed share-price fluctuations of 125 companies during the calendar year following a reputational crisis. –Joan Jett. TalkTalk lost $1.4