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Crisis communications management

Not having a crisis communications plan in place could mean the end of your business. Every company faces a crisis at one point or another. If handled correctly, you can minimize and even leverage the crisis to build deeper trust with customers and the community.

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Natural and man-made disasters happen all the time, and they can do serious damage to the future of your company.

Whether your company faces a devastating crisis like an oil rig explosion or something on a smaller scale, such as negative online reviews, you must be prepared to respond. According to the Department of Commerce, 40% of all companies will not survive a crisis and more than 60% close within two years of experiencing one. For smaller companies, statistics show that 70% go out of business within one year of a crisis.


Having a crisis plan can help your company survive – even thrive.

In 1982, Johnson & Johnson faced a crisis that made headlines around the world. Seven people in Chicago died after taking Tylenol capsules that had been laced with cyanide. Someone had tampered with the bottles with the intent to murder. The company issued a nationwide recall of its Tylenol products – an estimated 31 million bottles with a retail loss of more than $100 million. In addition, J&J issued several nationwide urgent public announcements warning people not to use the product.


It seems almost impossible that a brand could survive after such an ordeal, yet not only did J&J survive the crisis, but the company also boosted its credibility due to its thoughtful and timely PR responses. J&J redefined crisis communications management and turned the matter into a case study in effective public relations and crisis management.


Does your company know the 10 most important steps to prepare for a crisis? Do you have a plan in place and employees trained in proper protocols to handle the unexpected? How your company handles a crisis can mean the difference between success and ultimate failure.


Axia Public Relations takes a proactive approach to crisis management.

 

10 steps to prepare your company for Crisis

 

Axia's 10 step crisis plan.

 

At Axia, we specialize in corporate communication for enterprise organizations, using our 10-step process to prepare a company for a crisis, including crisis audience personas, specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely, ethical, and recorded (SMARTER) objectives, key messages and message templates, media and industry influencer lists, key performance indicators, evaluation framework, and crisis communication services.

 

Axia has more than 25 years of crisis communication and reputation management experience and capabilities for issues present and not present in the public domain for some of America's most well-known billion-dollar corporations. Our top three services include media relations, crisis communication, and online reputation management. Many organizations have selected Axia's expertise in advocacy and reputation management to help them build and protect their reputation by: 

  • Keeping issues not yet present in the public domain out of the public domain
  • Proactive PR counteroffensive against an issue in the public domain
  • Managing reputation through search engine optimization tactics (online reputation management)
  • Expertise in issues and relationship management
  • Expertise in advocacy and reputation management
  • Active shooter/attack on-premises
  • Activists demonstrating on-premises
  • CEO shot
  • Child sexual abuse
  • Corporate espionage
  • Cyberattack
  • CEO death threats
  • Employee suicide
  • FBI raid
  • Hostage situations
  • Hostile takeovers and mergers and acquisitions
  • Human trafficking
  • Inappropriate email sent to 150,000 K-12 students and parents
  • Litigation matters
  • Mass layoffs
  • Mass shootings
  • Negative news coverage
  • Negative online company reviews
  • Negative online employee reviews
  • Negative product reviews
  • Negative viral social media rants
  • Noose found hanging in a company breakroom by a client
  • On-the-job injury resulting in death and dismemberment
  • OSHA violations and fines
  • Phishing emails sent to 10,000s of customers and business contacts
  • Product recall
  • Racist hiring practices
  • Sex trafficking
  • Sexual misconduct
    and more...

Tune in to our #CrisisPR webinar for an in-depth discussion on how to stay on top of any situation. As crisis management counselors, we team up with your company to prepare long before a crisis ever occurs. Axia will show your organization how to put communication first and mitigate negative outcomes that are detrimental to your success. A great way to get started on mapping out your crisis preparedness strategy is to download this e-book: Managing Public Relations in a Crisis.

To learn more about partnering with Axia’s crisis communications team, contact us today. Don’t let your company fall victim to poor planning; let Axia be your crisis communications adviser. Check our crisis ebookwebinarblog postsetc.

 

We can help your company improve online reviews and online reputation management.

Buy a crisis PR package.


1 month

This covers 30 days of crisis

PR counseling and services.

$80,000 USD

 

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1 week

This covers five days of crisis

PR counseling and services.

$25,000 USD

 

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1 day

This covers 24 hours of crisis

PR counseling and services.

$10,000 USD

 

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Buy a crisis plan

Not yet experiencing a crisis? Now's a good time to start planning for one. Our expert team will create a custom crisis communications plan for your company in less than six weeks including our 10 crisis steps and sample scripts.

$18,000 USD

 

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Need a different solution?

Book a one-time crisis communications consultation with our PR agency's leadership team.

 

$1,000 USD

 

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Crisis PR Book

Build your own crisis plan with our Crisis PR e-book. We'll show you how you can build a crisis PR plan, what you should never say during a crisis situation, and more.

 

$19.95 USD

 

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For every

$1

spent on crisis planning, a company saves $7 during a crisis.

 

 

 

- FEMA

40%

of companies never recover from a crisis.

 

 

 

 

 

- SBA

74%

of companies who faced a major crisis sought outside help either during or after their most serious crisis.

 

 

- PWC

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and

five minutes

to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”

 

 

 

- Warren Buffet

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