WE INTERVENE · 掛波與救火

Issue & Crisis
Management

A crisis moves like weather: it can be forecast, signalled, and ridden out — if someone is watching the pressure fall. When it ignites anyway, the first 48 hours decide everything.

Methodology · the crisis cycle

Four stages. A right move
at every one of them.

Every crisis follows the same route: unfavourable news → mass media reporting → influencers' negative comments → attack by netizens → negative sentiment. We intervene at each stage — the earlier, the cheaper.

  1. STAGE 1 · 觀天 · 未成災

    Unfavourable news

    • Internal alignment
    • Risk assessment
    • Social monitoring

    The story exists but has not travelled. This is the cheapest moment to act — and the easiest to waste.

  2. STAGE 2 · 掛波 · 落地前

    Mass media reporting

    • "Line-to-take" preparation
    • Press release optimisation

    Newsrooms pick it up. Every word of your response will be quoted — so it is drafted before it is needed.

  3. STAGE 3 · 風眼 · 意見領袖

    Influencers' negative comments

    • Alternative-opinion development
    • Influencer marketing
    • Media buy

    Voices with followings set the frame. The answer is other credible voices, not louder official ones.

  4. STAGE 4 · 救火 · 全面應對

    Attack by netizens

    • Correct-information penetration
    • Sentiment management
    • Social seeding

    The crowd joins in. Facts must reach the places the crowd actually reads — in the register it actually speaks.

Risk grading · 唔係逢負面就出手

Risk assessment in
five dimensions

Not every negative comment deserves a task force. We grade every signal — high-risk issues get immediate strategy and response; low-risk ones are flagged and monitored, so your resources stay focused on what genuinely threatens the brand.

Around known risk windows — court schedules, seasonal issues, report publication cycles — lines-to-take are prepared in advance. In a live crisis: 24/7 alert, assessment, a recommended response with ready-to-use copy, execution, and a post-incident report.

  1. 01 Moral perception 道德觀感
  2. 02 Media commentary 媒體評論
  3. 03 Calls to action 行動號召
  4. 04 Crowd feedback 群眾回饋
  5. 05 Social climate 社會氣氛
We alter · how discussions turn

Three ways a conversation
changes direction

Focus diversion

Move the conversation to ground where the brand can win.

Penetration of correct information

Put the facts where the discussion actually happens.

Alternative storytelling

A better narrative beats a rebuttal.

2000%+

In a like-for-like campaign, social seeding produced over twenty times the engagement of paid media buy (7,805 likes vs 323). Where a message comes from matters more than how loudly it is said — that is why the desk practises seeding as a craft.

Self-check

Something goes wrong in
your branded channels?

  1. Hate comments are springing up on social media platforms.
  2. The platforms have encountered a massive drop of followers.
  3. People are talking negatively about your brand on forums.
  4. Your brand always gets picked on due to a past issue.
  5. There is an ongoing backlash against your brand.

Remember

Do not let fears of attack deter your brand
from doing great on social media.

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