A company should always be well prepared before a crisis to be able to navigate and mitigate the situation successfully. This preparation is done with a crisis communications plan that assesses all possible risks for the company, audits for any vulnerabilities, and then creates responses for multiple crisis situations with
After months of a global pandemic, uncertainty and protests have changed the meaning of crisis communication. Some experts in the field are going even as far as to say that everyone is a crisis communicator these days. With the insights of Zignal Labs, here is what all this means for
After a year of uncertainty and chaos, things have changed for crisis communications and crisis PR, which means public relations experts have to learn more new things to keep up with the new demands. The beginning of a brand new decade saw a world filled with protests, economic uncertainty, and
Noted televangelist Joel Osteen is quoted as saying those words and then adding, “You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there.” Richards Group was the largest independently-owned agency in the U.S., with annual revenue of more than $1 billion. Little did
We conducted an interview Q&A with Kimberly Smith, Marketing Manager at Clarify Capital. There have been some PR blunders in 2020. Can you give us a real-world example of one? The Norwegian cruise line campaign #FeelFreeToFeelMore is a prime example of PR done poorly. The campaign, which premiered in March, skipped over the pandemic entirely, creating
What are some of the major 2020 crisis PR disasters? We asked some experts and got the following. According to Chris Norris, Managing editor at SleepStandards.com, “In this fast-paced digital world, with social media readily available to almost everyone it’s scary to make any mistakes, especially in public. Just thinking about it would
“Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated” is the first half of a quote by Ziad Abdelnour, Lebanese-born American financier. For many brands, customer loyalty can make a tremendous difference is how and whether that person’s friends and family follow the lead. But a survey in late
Between online misinformation, misleading advertisements, and social media trolls, today’s crisis management planners have to be prepared for any type of emerging disaster. Whether that’s on a familiar front or a new and unexpected one, the best way of managing a crisis is with a solid plan. These days, brands
There are a lot of things missing from grocery and big box store shelves, but nothing has become more emblematic of the COVID-19 crisis than shelves without toilet paper. Panic buying caused sales of toilet paper to more than double what they were in March 2019. And, if anything, demand
China, the most populated country in the world has been experiencing a backlash from some western countries over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. There has been a lack of trust with the official numbers that have come out of the country, and there has also been plenty of criticism
