These are the slides from Emily Perkins' session at Digital Gaggle in Bristol on Thursday 19th September 2019.
Her session helped attendees understand how to navigate a PR crisis on social media.
5. Customer service
● Core part of social media
● Typically Twitter, but not always
● Remember: nothing is deleted from the internet!
● Courteous, apologetic, make things right
● 30% of consumers whose messages to brands go
ignored are more likely to switch to a competitor
6. Short term changes
• Create customer service guidelines
• Agree an escalation process
• Have a responsible person
7. Strategic long term changes
• Get your spokesperson properly trained
• Dig deeper into patterns and behaviours
• Fix the causes
8. If some, all, or none of this has made sense…
Let’s talk.
emily@oggadoon.co.uk
Editor's Notes
There's nothing quite like a social media blowout - going viral for all the wrong reasons. As businesses engage with customers purely through digital means, how can you ensure that a mistake (or worse) doesn't blow up on social media? What crisis comms practices can be brought into the digital space? Let’s look first at how not to do it
Short term? Create guidelines – and stick to them. Agree an escalation process, inc triggers. Have one person at any one time responsible, and MAKE SURE THEY KNOW.