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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

We help companies develop the plan and then procide the system to run it smoothly. Check us out at http://www.reviewwatchman.com  

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This Is The Most Epic Brand Meltdown On Facebook Ever

This Is The Most Epic Brand Meltdown On Facebook Ever | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
The two owners of Amy's Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro took over the restaurant's Facebook page last night to fight unruly commenters, and man, was it embarrassing.
Jeff Domansky's insight:

In the short recorded Internet history of social media and PR fails, this one ranks at the top. It's a meltdown of epic proportions and the Buzzfeed story only introduces the story. The Scottsdale Arizona owners of Amy's Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro were featured on Gordon Ramsay's Hells Kitchen TV program.

 

As negative comments started to pile up on their bistro's Facebook page, the owners, Amy and Samy, jumped in to confront the critics. You know the saying never feed the haters. Apparently, Amy and Samy haven't heard the expression. On Monday, for hours, the two engaged in a terrible display of ignorance of social media and allowing trolls and haters to turn things into a spectacle. All recorded and to be played back forever in the future.

 

A proud moment for reality social media but not so good for your bistro business. The owners brought it on themselves. You really must see the Facebook page while it remains up to understand how this story spun out of control.

 

Reality TV has nothing on this social media story.

 

Amy's Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro Facebok page: 

https://www.facebook.com/amysbakingco ;

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Nutella Makes a Marketing Error with Its Biggest Fan | Social Media Today

Nutella Makes a Marketing Error with Its Biggest Fan | Social Media Today | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

As you’re aware, since 2007, Sara Rosso—arguably your most passionate superfan—has hosted World Nutella Day. She love(d) your product so much that she wanted the world to dedicate a single day—February 5—to embracing it. What she did was nothing less than astounding. On the World Nutella Day website, Rosso has gathered more than 700 recipes, tweeted and shared on Facebook the favorite sayings, stories and links of Nutella fans and, most important, encouraged everyone to try Nutella just once.

 

But on May 25, all her hard work will have been in vain. That’s because you inexplicably shut down her tremendous efforts, sending a cease-and-desist letter to her mailbox—the sort of action a brand might take against a brand hijacker, hacker or activist....

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Nutella scrambles to fix bad PR and a reputation hit..

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