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Business Crisis Management: Why Press Releases Are Important

PR Fuel

Almost 70-percent of businesses recently surveyed experienced a crisis in the past five years. Negative information about your business can travel quickly, and crisis management is critical. How you handle a business crisis reveals your character and skill at handling a catastrophe. Gives Necessary Information. Shows Initiative.

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Why Write Press Releases? What Is the Goal of Press Releases?

PR Fuel

Why write press releases, though? Traditional marketing materials like billboards and flyers can appear in front of any local consumer. Why write press releases? One of the top benefits of press release writing is the exposure you’ll generate. Why Write Press Releases?: To recap, why write press releases?

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The 22 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

Onclusive

PR pros will need to either write content themselves or help to drive strategy with a team of writers, editors and guest blog contributors. Today’s PR pro is responsible for ideating, writing, editing, pitching, placing and promoting executive thought leadership articles for not only the CEO, but also other senior executives.

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The anatomy of a reputation crisis

NewsWhip

We recently completed a comprehensive study on the anatomy of a reputation crisis using our data, and we’re including some of the highlights here. We looked back at five different types of brand crisis – data breaches, lawsuits, product recalls, executive behavior, and racial tension in the workplace.

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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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Using Social Amidst a Crisis: Q&A With Scott Peacock & K.C. Brown

Cision

Social media can quickly turn local events into breaking national news which means every season is crisis season. They turned to their crisis communication plan and Cision Global Insights At the recent “ Prepare for Crises Lurking Beneath Your Brand ,” Scott Peacock and Cision’s K.C. Here, Scott and K.C.

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Vishal Garg’s apology has only deepened the crisis for Better.com

NewsWhip

What began as a three minute Zoom call has now turned into a growing crisis for Better.com, especially the CEO and other company executives. Here we’ll examine how this crisis has been covered by the media, the articles capturing the most public interest, and how the story continues to spread across social media channels.

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