Communication skills are prized in business for a reason. However, communicating well is more than just being able to speak in front of a crowd, the C-suite, or a client. Being able to communicate ideas clearly and concisely in a way that your audience will respond to...
ICYMI: Bulldog Reporter’s Top 10 Most Popular Posts in April
As 2022 keeps chugging along, Agility's Bulldog Reporter again scored a trainload of great post traffic in April. Some of our most timely pieces topped the list of popular posts last month, with topics including spokesperson lessons from Judge Kentaji Brown Jackson’s...
Media monitoring: Is self-serve or premium media monitoring right for you?
Whether you’re an agency, not-for-profit, or international corporation, media monitoring will benefit you and your communications. While there are free tools you can cobble together to do some basic monitoring, this is an area we recommend putting some budget behind....
The Art of the Digital Pivot with Eric Schwartzman: Agility Webinar Recap
On Wednesday, April 27, Eric Schwartzman, digital marketing consultant and author of The Digital Pivot: Secrets of Online Marketing joined us for our monthly webinar series. In his presentation, Eric shared three steps for making the digital pivot and his sequence for...
ICYMI: Bulldog Reporter’s Top 10 Most Popular Posts in March
The year is speeding by (Q1 over already??) and with spring in the air, Bulldog Reporter content remains on the fast track, with another great month of original and submitted posts. Our top posts in March tackled some interesting PR topics, such as how to break the...
A crisis comms perspective: Michelle Garrett shares her thoughts on the Oscars incident involving Chris Rock and Will Smith
Whether you watched the Oscars on Sunday night or not, it’s more than likely you’ve heard about or seen a clip of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on stage after Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith. The incident has not left the headlines since. Michelle Garrett,...
Crisis Comms Mastery Virtual Summit: Top Tips from the Experts
From March 24-26, over 2,000 registrants joined us for our second annual Crisis Comms Mastery virtual summit. This year we had 15+ sessions from a lineup of world-class PR and crisis comms experts, including former journalists, agency owners, authors, and podcast...
New to Newswires? Here’s how to write an attention-grabbing press release
For those new to the game, newswires today distribute submitted press releases electronically for a fee to subscribing newsrooms and journalists. Once a press release is posted to the wire, journalists and news outlets who subscribe to that particular wire will be...
PR Profiles, Episode 9: A Conversation with Pragya Dubey, Vice President of Global Services at Agility PR Solutions
Pragya Dubey, Vice President of Global Services & Media Analytics at Agility PR Solutions could have been an astrophysicist. Upon graduating with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Mumbai, Pragya had a decision to make: pursue an MBA or pursue an MSc in...
Media relations measurement for the tourism industry: How Travel Alberta shifted to measuring coverage quality with the help of Agility
Travel Alberta is the tourism marketing agency of the Government of Alberta, and is responsible for driving tourism value to the province, a mark which reached $8.3 billion in 2014. The Issue As an indicator of media coverage, advertising value equivalencies (AVEs)...