How to create a crisis plan in less than 30 minutes
You should already have a crisis plan in place, but some situations will require you to go off course. Here’s how to whip up an effective plan in record time.
My client is a small company, and a few employees manage the brand’s social media sites. I’m the de facto marketing director.
Firing a client is never easy, but it’s exponentially harder when you’re a small company. You can’t afford to have one patron gobble up most of the resources and cause others to complain.
Success or failure was going to happen fast; the fired client had already mobilized his team on social media.
Engage the 30-minute crisis plan
We had 30 minutes to create a crisis plan. Here’s how we did it:
5 minutes: Understand what happened. We let the client go. The client took to Twitter and posted to Yelp.
5 minutes: Understand what could happen. We created a spreadsheet of all the review sites we were on that the client had not yet attacked. We also included a list of review sites we weren’t on.
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