This document provides guidance on how to survive a social media crisis. It recommends preparing in advance by monitoring for issues, getting to know your audience, and having a crisis response plan ready. When a crisis hits, the document advises remaining calm, being transparent, responding quickly, updating regularly, and learning from the experience to improve future crisis preparedness and response.
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How to Survive a Social media Crisis
1. How to survive a
Social Media Crisis
Folke Lemaitre
Founder & CEO
http://twitter.com/folke
2. What is Engagor?
All-in-one social media monitoring, Enterprise
analytics and management tool B2C
Monitor your brand across the web
Talk with your customers on any social network
Measure your results
Create detailed Social Media reports
Powerful, yet easy to use
5. How do you talk to a king?
Do your homework learn, learn, learn!
1. Build your personal Social Identity
2. Prepare for war
3. Survive a war
4. Adapt your strategy
6. Get started with Social Media
Create a personal Twitter account
Follow influential people
Gather a following
Talk
Tweet often, but dont overdo it
Understand Social Media dynamics
Now youre ready to get started on that social
media crisis plan
8. How do you talk to a king?
Vanity metrics are fun,
but not a goal
Treat others as your
equal
Remember that you are
not the King
9. How do you talk to a king?
SOCIAL MEDIA
OM NOM NOM
* BEEEEEP
TWEEEEEET
10. How do you talk to a king?
SOCIAL MEDIA
OM NOM NOM
* BEEEEEP
TWEEEEEET
Automation is great! But
keep the human touch
Never send automatic
messages
Answer to people
11. How do you talk to a king?
Be Human
Be Personal
Be Professional
13. Be Prepared
Crisis can strike any time
During the day if youre lucky
During the night, weekend if youre not so lucky
When crisis strikes you better be prepared
This is not the time to start thinking about a social
media crisis plan
14. Start Listening
Monitor your brand, competitors, industry
Monitor key people in your company,
including yourself
Monitor generic list of negative keywords
For example: mentions of health claim in
Belgium (for Consumer Goods)
24. Prepare when you know a crisis will hit
Setup very broad keyword topics
For example, if you expect a mass layoff
Use saved searches for further filtering
25. Prepare for quick response
Setup Quick Searches
List of influencers
Sort incoming mentions by authority
Filter on most pending issues first
Setup a crisis response team for afterhours
27. Admit there is a problem
Admit theres an issue (dont wait too long)
on your website or blog
on your social channels
28. Keep your calm at all times
Answer correctly
Dont be harsh
BUT: dont feed the trolls
29. Update regularly, even when there are no updates
No news Bad news
Bad news Good news
Good news No news
Dont leave your customers in the dark
Be as transparent as possible
30. Be Responsive
Answer as much and as fast as possible
Prioritize on influencers, key issues,
DONT delete/hide posts on Facebook
Communicate beyond Facebook & Twitter
33. Learn and Adapt
Adapt your strategy
Be even better prepared
How can we do better next time?
34. Consumer is King
TL;DR
Understand Social Media dynamics
Start listening and be prepared
Be transparent and responsive
Learn from your mistakes
Start your free Engagor trial today! ;-)
folke@engagor.com
http://twitter.com/folke