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When Designing Controls Around Your Crisis Communications, Don’t Do This!

Melissa Agnes

One of the challenges of communicating effectively in times of viral issue and crisis management is ensuring that your brand’s communications are consistent across every stakeholder group, region and department. Crisis communication is complex, dynamic and critically important to get right.

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Why You Should Hire a Crisis Communications Agency?

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Having a crisis communication plan in place ahead of time reduces confusion, ensures an effective communication flow, and improves messaging timeliness during or after a crisis. The basics of good crisis communications are the same for every company. What causes a crisis to go viral?

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“Social Media Crisis” and Other Buzzwords that Need to Go

Melissa Agnes

Melissa’s #1 despised buzzword: Social media crisis. The fact of the matter is that a crisis is a crisis. The definition of a crisis: A negative situation / event that threatens to have long-term repercussions on the organization’s reputation and/or bottom line. So let’s call it like it is!

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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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How to Prepare a PR Crisis Plan

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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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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

sent out a tweet that went viral so quickly – the CMO came to my desk to see if I was okay. “He This latest move may make financial sense, but it’s the second serious crisis communications distraction for the company in Europe. Journalists were quite vocal about criticizing the company for selling their emails.

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Why it’s Important to Monitor Trending Topics

Critical Mention

Last but certainly not least, crisis communications is another benefit of following trends. Not only can you prepare for a crisis by keeping on top of what your customers are saying on various platforms, but you can also mitigate the crisis by responding to negative press and your customers in real-time. .

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