Posts Tagged ‘public relations’

Domino’s eat humble pie

Monday 22nd March, 2010

The writing was on the wall.  Dominos didn’t like its placing among the large pizza chains.  And their self inflicted wound courtesy the disgusting actions of 2 employees, distributed far and wide courtesy YouTube made things even worse for Dominos.  They needed a sea change not an incremental one.

Firstly, for those of you who didn’t hear about it, here’s what happened last year:

Dominos has chosen to fight fire with fire.  Since the 2 employees used YouTube to distribute their story, Dominos decided they would use the same medium to tell theirs.  And it’s a story about listening.  They listened and ate humble pie.  Here’s some of what their listening has led to.

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What Minister Hunt could have done differently

Monday 9th November, 2009
T&T's $2M Flag

T&T's $2M Flag

I have not been following the Flag at the National Stadium issue very closely; however, I know enough to know that from henceforth Minister Hunt will be known as the $2M flag man. I also know that his political enemies see this as manna from heaven and will do anything to position this as a symbol of the ruling party’s squander mania.

Letters to the editor have started to list what could have been done instead with $2M. People are doing research on the internet on what the pole should have cost. Someone has asked if Fire One’s forte is engineering fireworks or engineering works. (more…)