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These 3 Quick Reputation Management Tips Will Save Your Business From Oprah Winfrey's Experience of Terrible Customer Service and Social Media Backlash - Business 2 Community

These 3 Quick Reputation Management Tips Will Save Your Business From Oprah Winfrey's Experience of Terrible Customer Service and Social Media Backlash - Business 2 Community | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Oprah Winfrey, one of the world’s richest women valued at over 2.9 billion dollars, was refused 3 times the opportunity to examine and purchase a 37 thousand dollar Tom Ford handbag. This happened at a posh upscale boutique in Switzerland.


The resulting news and social media backlash for the boutique involved and Switzerland itself (the country’s tourism office also apologized to her) was rapid and explosive, with negative commentary from news organizations, Facebook, Twitter, media publications and the like chiming in. Don’t be surprised by this! Anything that touches on deeply personal values (racism, gender equality, lifestyle, health, etc.) will quickly mushroom into an immense social media unconscious event. It will either become a social media dream or in this particular case…the ultimate social media brand reputation management nightmare.


This wake up call provides a powerful opportunity for businesses regarding their reputation management process. Not every business has a plan in place and for those who don’t know where to start, consider these 3 compelling reputation management tips....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Crisis PR lessons and valuable tips in reputation management. What a terrible case of bad PRand a great reminder to all about how fast a local issue and single incident causes a global reputation impact through social media.

Chris Abalain's curator insight, August 19, 2013 6:37 PM

Business owners should always be considering what their actions will do for their reputation!

Brad Dixon's curator insight, September 9, 2013 6:19 PM

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Social Media as a Crisis Management Tool

Social Media as a Crisis Management Tool | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Just about every plan we put together these days includes aspects of social media crisis management. Presenting a variety of platforms and utilities that are perfect for communications, reputation management, monitoring stakeholder sentiment and a host of other specialized uses.


Add to that the fact that your audience is all but guaranteed to be both talking about and searching for information on your crisis via social media, and the question of whether to use social for your next crisis management campaign becomes a no-brainer.

Jeff Domansky's insight:

This infographic offers a useful selection of social media and online crisis management tips. Worth considering when you develop your own crisis PR plan.

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