Your brand’s public image is essential to making sales, finding new customers and making your company a success. As the name denotes, public relations is rooted in relationships. How you relate to customers, partners and stakeholders is key in a good PR strategy. Here...
4 ways to maximize the value of your online content and multimedia
More than any other factor, good content is the driving force behind being successful online. Offering engaging, interesting content gives visitors a reason to come to your website—and, perhaps more importantly, will more than likely also give them sufficient reason...
As CX demands mount, real-time decisioning tools becoming critical to communications
COVID has slowed down our culture, but the business world is chugging along at lightning speed—and making decisions in real time has become critical for leaders, especially when it comes to communicating with customers. Real-time decisioning technology can play a...
5 critical skills every PR specialist needs in today’s world
Public relations specialists work with many kinds of clients, in a wide variety of fields, and to be able to serve each client well they must be adaptable and often act as a jack of all trades. However, there are some foundational skills that lend themselves to being...
Financial services industry’s brand intimacy struggles continue
The financial services industry continues to have a hard time building connections with the public, ranking ninth out of the 10 industries studied in the Brand Intimacy COVID Study from marketing intimacy agency MBLM. However, the industry is showing improved...
3 PR tactics to retain customers and increase sales
Any good business spends a lot of time and money in the pursuit of new customers. For a business to grow, its customer base needs to grow as well. However, you can sometimes make the mistake of forgetting that customer retention should be a robust part of your...
COVID sparks a new wave of innovation across consumer industries—what’s changing?
Retailers, consumer goods, and travel companies are shifting from reacting to the COVID crisis to reinventing products and services—illustrating how the pandemic has accelerated demand for innovation, according to new research from professional services firm...
Empathy in influencer marketing—the metrics that matter most
One of the key metrics when it comes to the influencer marketing industry is the size of the audience. At the same time, the fight for followers has driven the influencer marketing industry into a position where that is the only thing that matters to both brands and...
How CMOs plan to leverage AI to take the guesswork out of creativity
New research from AI content generation and decisioning platform Persado, which aims to unlock the value of the right words at every customer interaction, provides insights on CMOs’ perceptions of their company’s readiness, and best practices for applying AI to an...
4 types of software that are critical for public relations teams
Technology has completely transformed the way that people live their lives and the way that businesses conduct their daily operations. The right piece of technology can have a very positive effect on a business’s output quality. However, that does not mean to say that...
Press Moves – Week of April 26
Here you have it! The most notable journalist and media industry moves of the past week. USA AND CANADA Follow us on Twitter @Press_Moves News Media Associated Press: Anna Jo Bratton (@annajobratton) has been appointed U.S. Enterprise Editor on the global enterprise...
New PRSA initiative tackles society’s most divisive issues—Q&A with 2021 Chair Michelle Olson
This week, PRSA announced the launch of one of its most ambitious initiatives yet, a new resource-rich forum called Voices4Everyone, designed to help PRSA members and the broader communications profession tackle and address a host of complex societal issues. “The...












