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Archive for the ‘Public Relations’ Category

March 26th, 2008

What’s For Dinner?– Are Blog Reviews The New Key To Success For Your Industry?

(businessandblogging.com) As I was browsing through my morning reading, I came upon this article from Candice Choi at the San Francisco Chronicle. The article describes how blogging is starting to have a major impact on the food manufacturing industry.
Apparently blogs are springing up that are dedicated to reviewing specific food products. A review on one […]

By Laura Spencer -- 4 comments

February 16th, 2008

Feedback: The Breakfast of Champions

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One of the reasons that both small and large businesses  cite for not wanting to start a blog is their concern over customer feedback. They worry that by opening up their blogs to comments, they will receive a preponderance of negative feedback from dissatisfied customers. They fear that the happy customers will remain silent. Their reputation […]

By Liz Fuller -- 1 comment

February 14th, 2008

Interview with Karen Putz: Deaf Mom Denied Service at Steak and Shake

(businessandblogging.com)On Tuesday’s post, I wrote about the PR nightmare facing Steak and Shake after an employee denied drive-thru service to Deaf Mom and Blogger, Karen Putz.  With your help,  we analyzed how Steak and Shake was handling the mini-crisis, what they should do next, and what other businesses, including yours, could learn from the situation.
On Tuesday’s […]

By Liz Fuller -- 5 comments

February 13th, 2008

Online Reputation Management and Business Blogging

(www.businessandblogging.) Everyone knows how damaging gossip can be. Whether it’s true or untrue, gossip can hurt.
Now the gossip has gone online and it can hurt your company. It can hurt a lot.
Yesterday Liz blogged about Steak and Shake and mentioned how unfortunate it was that Steak and Shake didn’t already have a corporate blog […]

By Laura Spencer -- 8 comments

February 12th, 2008

Crisis Case Study: Steak and Shake Refuses Service to Deaf Mom

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(www.businessandblogging.com) Yesterday Laura wrote about the use of blogs as part of a company’s crisis management plan.  Today I’d like to discuss a real-world PR crisis that is currently unfolding.
It’s an interesting look at how quickly an incident can take on a life of its own - before a company can even begin to respond […]

By Liz Fuller -- 18 comments

February 4th, 2008

Is Your Web 2.0 Strategy On Target?

Recently, Susan Gunelius on BrandCurve wrote a post about Target stores dismissing a query from a blogger who objected to their latest ad campaign.  It seems that the blogger thought the ad, which showed a woman lying spread-eagle across the bulls-eye logo was offensive and misogynistic. Instead of responding to her comment, a representative from Target […]

By Liz Fuller -- 6 comments

February 2nd, 2008

Question: When is a Fake Blog Not a Fake Blog?

Answer: When everyone knows it’s a fake.
Recently I posted about the PR debacle that Wal-mart created when they published a “fake blog”.  The blog was supposedly written by Wal-mart lovers who were touring the country, parking their RV in Wal-mart parking lots and interviewing amazingly happy Wal-mart employees. While parts of the blog were true (they […]

By Liz Fuller -- 11 comments

January 24th, 2008

Business Blog Case Study: Correcting a Misperception About Your Company

(businessandblogging.com) Liz and I noticed this post at Behind the Buzz, which describes a scenario in which a business, Vodafone (a mobile phone network in the United Kingdom), had to deal with a customer service problem.
The scenario is this:
Vodafone was trying to contact customers by phone, but customers were not sure whether the calls were […]

By Laura Spencer -- 0 comments

January 10th, 2008

Dell: A Blogging Success Story?

(businessandblogging.com) With the help of one of our fellow bloggers, Liz and I discovered this BusinessWeek article about how blogging turned Dell’s image around.
To make a long story short, two and a half years ago blogger and columnist Jeff Jarvis was just one of many thousands of dissatisfied Dell customers. Not only did Jeff […]

By Laura Spencer -- 11 comments

January 4th, 2008

Blogging and PR: Six Principles to Live By

(businessandblogging.com) The purpose of this post is to give you the “how to” of making blogging work for your business. There are six principles that you must implement when you develop a business
blog. I call them the six
be(e)s of business blogging:

Be there. Show up. Post regularly. Develop a posting schedule, […]

By Laura Spencer -- 5 comments