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The Internet may have opened worlds for organizations and buyers, but it has also made a public relations nightmare for businesses. Forums, opinion Net web sites, blogs, and something that is publishable can smear a company's name in moments.

Remember, "Yours Is a Extremely Bad Hotel" presentation that described a single customer's negative experience with a hotel chain? Hotels are run by humans. Humans make blunders. It really is how you manage the errors that can make the difference in consumer service. Because the hotel's workers did not attempt to assist the buyer overcome a bad circumstance, the customer lashed back and bloggers blogged it.

If the hotel is on best of its game, it would unleash its crisis management (also known as reputation management) group to salvage its reputation whilst it can. It's possible for a firm to overcome negative PR and come out ahead as in the situation of PG&E (California's Pacific Gas and Electric firm).

One more strategy is to use Web monitoring to monitor online articles regarding a company's activities to prepare for negative publicity. Some go further and monitor chat rooms, newsgroups, and on the internet discussion forums.

It is like the story of the town gossip who spread false stories about its people. One particular day, he felt terrible and went to the chaplain [Rabbi, pastor, priest, or other &mdash take your pick] to ask for forgiveness. The chaplain said,"I will forgive you, but you must do something 1st."

"Take a feather pillow, reduce it open, and scatter the feathers to the winds." The man believed this was a strange request, but it was a simple sufficient job, and he did it gladly. When he returned to inform the chaplain that he had accomplished it, the chaplain stated, "Now, go and gather the feathers. Because you can no much more make amends for the damage your words have carried out than you can recollect the feathers."

The same can come about to a business without a crisis management strategy in place. It's possible to survive the crisis and thrive as PG&E did. Don't count on Worldcom to pull out of its Enron-like mess. Fraud is not excusable. And Martha Stewart? She has hired a public relations strategist firm in an effort to do damage control. It'll be worth watching to see what takes place in her situation and how the PR firm attempts to save her reputation. Did you know there is a recall on 1 of her goods? Adds fuel to the fire, does not it? company website