Omnichannel marketing is a multichannel and/or public relations strategy that gives customers a unified brand experience across all customer touchpoints. To remain relevant today, marketers have to acquire and retain customers in a challenging environment. Omnichannel...
Social media is one of humanity's most powerfully influential creations, and its advent has brought with it a wide range of possibilities and opportunities, especially in terms of the application to business. Social media marketing and other techniques that utilize...
“It’s been ingrained in me to watch the news early in the morning,” says Annie Scranton, founder and president of Pace Public Relations and host of the PR Pace podcast. “Without reading and consuming the news voraciously I wouldn’t be able to do my job.” Before she...
We have offered up plenty of research on how marketers should be evaluating the influencers they are considering, how to estimate those costs and the red flags to watch for, but this new research from influencer-focused AI analytics platform HypeAuditor provides...
Instagram is the most appropriate platform for both influencer marketing and ecommerce, and interestingly, you can combine both. If you are an ecommerce business, you can work with influencers on Instagram to create strategically-targeted (ad) content for increased...
It can be easy to lose sight of what truly is the cornerstone of business success in today's fast-paced society—building a reciprocal and mutually beneficial business relationship. Unfortunately, for those just starting out in business, it often is not high on their...
We’ve all learned some valuable lessons over the last 18 months, and it’s time to start applying those learnings to getting ready for 2022 in the comms industry. What's working in the new normal for marketing and communications leaders—and what are they planning to do...
A professional brand is essential in business, especially with online marketing, but it takes time and money. When done right, creating a personal brand will pay dividends for your business by attracting more potential customers. The following branding tactics are...
There are so many aspects of business that help it run smoothly, and many of them function independently from one another. But there are also many departments that work best when they work together. Two such departments are the PR and sales teams. When these two teams...
Podcasting could have more momentum right now than any other media format—and the opportunities for brand marketers is booming as well. New research from ad effectiveness improvement firm NCSolutions (NCS) affirms that podcasts are going mainstream—and consumers who...
Influencer marketing provides an effective strategy to reconnect with customers personally. A 2020 study showed that more buyers—at least six out of ten—trust influencers over brand ads. However, like every other relatively new marketing strategy, marketers still...
The practice of neuromarketing, which began in about 2006, has been employed by many brands. By using EEG and functional magnetic resonance imaging, it is a research technique that aims to find out what people are really thinking and feeling when they watch ads. This...