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The Internet may possibly have opened worlds for businesses and customers, but it has also developed a public relations nightmare for businesses. Forums, opinion Net internet sites, blogs, and something that is publishable can smear a company's name in moments.

Keep in mind, "Yours Is a Extremely Negative Hotel" presentation that described 1 customer's poor knowledge with a hotel chain? Hotels are run by humans. Humans make errors. It really is how you handle the errors that can make the distinction in consumer service. Because the hotel's employees did not try to help the buyer overcome a negative scenario, the buyer lashed back and bloggers blogged it.

If the hotel is on best of its game, it would unleash its crisis management (also recognized as reputation management) group to salvage its reputation although it can. It really is achievable for a firm to overcome undesirable PR and come out ahead as in the situation of PG&E (California's Pacific Gas and Electric business).

Yet another strategy is to use Web monitoring to monitor on the web articles relating to a company's activities to prepare for unfavorable publicity. Some go further and monitor chat rooms, newsgroups, and on-line discussion forums.

It's like the story of the town gossip who spread false stories about its individuals. A single day, he felt terrible and went to the chaplain [Rabbi, pastor, priest, or other &mdash take your choose] to ask for forgiveness. The chaplain stated,"I will forgive you, but you have to do something very first."

"Take a feather pillow, reduce it open, and scatter the feathers to the winds." The man believed this was a strange request, but it was a basic sufficient job, and he did it gladly. When he returned to tell the chaplain that he had carried out it, the chaplain mentioned, "Now, go and collect the feathers. Since you can no a lot more make amends for the harm your words have carried out than you can recollect the feathers."

The exact same can occur to a company without a crisis management plan in place. It's attainable to survive the crisis and thrive as PG&E did. Don't count on Worldcom to pull out of its Enron-like mess. Fraud is not excusable. And Martha Stewart? She has hired a public relations strategist firm in an work to do harm control. It'll be worth watching to see what occurs in her case and how the PR firm attempts to save her reputation. Did you know there is a recall on 1 of her merchandise? Adds fuel to the fire, doesn't it? consumers