Tim holtz the ink road (Lara) drama

The thing is when this all started I agree it should have been handled differently by Tim's team.
But immediately people judged him and when it first started he wasn't responding and people were calling him out for it and said by him not addressing it head on he was obviously quilty. He was hiding something.
So when he does address yet he still gets bashed for it.
He won't win not matter what.

He didn't address it. He posted a shitquote and linked Lara's apology video which was clearly part of the deal to avoid legal matters on her side. 

Addressing it beyond communication would also be dealing with the people blocked on social media but ho hey, it's "time to forget the mistake." No clue what lesson he'll remember from this because I've not seen anything that was learnt by his camp. 

Still very unprofessional. I'd be embarrassed to be associated with how this was and is handled. There is definitely ample room to criticise this without "bashing" him. It was not good businessing, period. 

Agree.

In the beginning he could have just said, “We take this very seriously. We are looking into it.” And no one would say he was hiding something by not responding.

It wasn't his dirty laundry to begin with he just got thrown into the pile and has had to live with her dirty pile since.

Can someone give me the details or direct me to the details of the fight between One Ink Road and Christy Tomlinson? Someone also said the Reset Girl was involved. Where can I read about all of this? I follow CT on Instagram and I will never understand how she runs such a successful business. She stories all day every day on multiple accounts. She definitely overshares. she also has a lot of medical issues that keep her in bed. I also see she definitely has an addictive personality. She's into something one week and will buy $$$$ of something (purses, shoes, nail polish, headbands, boots), whatever she's into at the time she will literally buy hundreds of them. Then the next week it's something else. I actually don't dislike her but I do wonder how she runs such a successful company. I know her husband does a lot. I do have a less than favorable opinion about The Reset Girl so I would love to hear what went down with all of that.

Agree that he shouldn’t have to deal with this, but he does have to. His method of responding is his own responsibility. He made a bad call and chose as a business owner to post something a lot of us found unprofessional. We’re criticizing a business owners public response to an unfortunate situation. Why is everyone making this so personal?! He is a business. You lose the luxury to react emotionally and be petty even if you feel “justified” if you want to be taken seriously as a BUSINESS.  

Peace out ✌️ 

It doesn't matter whether he should or shouldn't have to deal with a crisis. Crises just happen as I stated before. 

To use the dirty laundry metaphor stated earlier: there are two dirty piles of laundry. You're focused on the Lara one. *Some* other people in here are focused on the Tim one. It's fine if you're not interested in the dissonance between a brand's importance and lack of professionalism in dealing with an unexpected situation but that doesn't invalidate the other conversation happening. You can't mingle both to come to one singular conclusion. It's fine for people to also discuss the other matter. 

Of course he shouldn’t have had to deal with it. But every business will face a crisis, whether or not they want to or not. And whether or not they actually did anything or not.

As we mentioned before, it’s not about saying something or not. It’s about saying the right thing and handling the situation in the way ALL businesses should. It’s not personal at all.

We’d be saying the same thing if it were anyone else. Apple. Nike. Heidi Swapp. American Crafts.

There were many moments in the past few weeks where he could have acted more than good enough. He simply didn't. We've even posted examples of how things could've been worded and what could've been said (and would've been by crisis management professionals). To insist on continuing to point he can't be anything but a victim is unfair to those having a rational discussion about the crisis management in this thread. 

There's no black sheep persecution happening in here. Just a mere continued surprise at the actual lack of professionalism on display. And to make it extra clear: I was absolutely not expecting this lack of professionalism from TH. Not one bit. It is out of character with the size of his brand and what I've come to expect from his brand (I own quite a few TH-branded things). 

As far as I am concerned Tim does not have to apologize or answer to anything.
I will continue to support him and his business.
I wish nothing but peace and kindness to all.

From where I sit, Lara is a nut job and Tim was less than professional. This seems to be pretty SOP in this industry. Lara’s lying and attempts to cancel Tim’s career and livelihood in this current hypersensitive world are not even slightly equivalent to Tim’s snarky unprofessional blocking and quoting. Ink Road was never on my radar for purchasing, still isn’t. Tim’s behavior does not keep me from purchasing his creations from various manufacturers.

To those that think they would have handled this better or “professionally “, how do you know how you would have responded?

You don’t.

None of us know what the circumstances were that led Tim/team to respond the way they did.  The reality is, faced with the same set circumstances, all of us could have made exactly the same choices Tim/team did from blocking people to his written responses.

Its really easy to say what you would do after the fact without all the facts.

I’m seeing some on this thread that don’t like Tim and have the attitude  “that no matter what he says or does I will find fault with it.”  It seems to me it would be easier to just say “I don’t like the guy” instead of reaching for pithy remarks about him, but whatever floats your boat.

I like Tim.  But I do find him annoying when he starts to mix colors in one of his Facebook Live demos that I’m sure I won’t like but end up doing so and wondering how does he do that.

I think both of his written responses that he has posted are fine.  They are measured.  But I’m not sure why some think they should have mentioned any legal action Tim might be considering.  Quite frankly it’s none of our business.  What if anything that goes on between Tim and Lara now is between them. As it should be.

Work in branding, particularly the social media sphere. Worked in PR. Refer clients to crisis management and I've mentioned it before in this very discussion. But you're right, I don't know. 

Gotta love the holier-than-thou attitude in here. I'm out. The fangirls can claim this as their appointed stoop. I can sit elsewhere. 

You rang?