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PR Crisis Management: 7 Steps to Successfully Handle Your Next Crisis

Board Effect

A poorly managed crisis could cost your nonprofit its reputation, yet developing a solid PR crisis management plan could help maintain the public’s trust through the worst possible crisis. An excellent place to start board discussions about PR crisis management planning is by defining a crisis. Reputational damage.

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Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

It is a truism that with more capital you will hire people more quickly and spend more liberally whether it’s on external contractors, PR firms, attending events, doing legal work (trademarks, patents) or whatever. You will build out features or expend to platforms — often before you have enough market feedback to warrant it.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

They usually ask for warrants (basically like a stock option) in exchange for taking a deferred fee. Like anything in life, if you want a fair deal on the deferred fee and warrant percentage you need to talk to a few lawyers to make it competitive. I know Mike Lincoln in Washington DC does. So it doesn’t have to be a small firm.

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Business Apologies: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Do

ConversionXL

Increase brand reputation. When a United Airlines passenger was “dragged” off a flight , CEO Oscar Munoz initially issued a PR-driven, tick-the-checkbox apology: As public resentment grew, Munoz followed up with another, more candid mea culpa: 6. From a day-to-day perspective, apologizing to disappointed customers can: Reduce returns.

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Twitter Link Roundup #33 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

How To Build Your Reputation And Authority As A Designer- [link]. Has Your Startup Given Performance-Based Warrants? 5 Step Small Business PR Plan for Today – [link]. Logo design heresies: A Devil’s Advocate look at The 10.5 Commandments of Designing a Logo – [link]. – [link]. What is Your Core Business?

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Twitter Link Roundup #33 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

How To Build Your Reputation And Authority As A Designer- [link]. Has Your Startup Given Performance-Based Warrants? 5 Step Small Business PR Plan for Today – [link]. Logo design heresies: A Devil’s Advocate look at The 10.5 Commandments of Designing a Logo – [link]. – [link]. What is Your Core Business?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

As much as I love Linux (and would love to make it my primary OS across all of my development systems), it simply lacks the market share necessary to warrant the investment of my efforts. But maybe.Net, too, has the potential to grow beyond itself and beyond the reputation of its coders. March 26, 2011 at 9:18 pm. Federico Delgado.

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