Do you want to get a much better ROI on your Instagram marketing efforts? Instagram can be a fantastic PR tool and a great way to connect with customers—but it can also end up being a huge time sink. These tips are designed to help you get 10x ROI (or more!) on your...
No matter the line of work, an increase in sales is a driving point behind most departments. While many people think that public relations simply handles press releases, this division has a strong ability to influence sales. Below are six ways that your PR department...
Communicators have their hands full when it comes to helping companies understand and respond to critical issues that have taken center stage over the last year. A recent 2021 Global Communication Report from the University of Southern California explores “new...
Reputation data and insights firm The RepTrak Company recently released the results of the 2021 Global RepTrak 100, a comprehensive reputation study offering in-depth analysis and ranking of the top 100 companies worldwide by Reputation Score. In 2021, it was a much...
Prior to joining Burson-Marsteller, my first PR job was with a political agency, where I learned on-the-job lessons not taught in communication’s schools about how to deal with the media and approach problems that could change on a daily basis. I have long said that...
I often talk to people who know they need publicity and want professional help to get it, but find and hiring PR agencies to be a confusing and daunting task. That’s understandable. Public relations firms differ in a thousand ways, it seems. For one, they use...
Ah, the customer. The person who represents the endgame of all your marketing and communications work—and what should be the most important component of your brand strategy. You’d think comms pros would prioritize their ability to understand the targets to whom...
Although there may be disagreement about when blogging was born, one thing is clear. Blogging has been reincarnated and the pandemic deserves a lot of credit for it. The best guess is that blogging got its name in the early to mid-1990s. The 7th Annual Survey of...
Are you looking for effective ways to connect your product or service with the customers who need it? Of course you are; otherwise, you wouldn't be in business! Many small business owners rely on tried-and-true marketing techniques, but this is only one piece of the...
Newly released research from global comms firm WE Communications (WE) reveals a dramatic shift in executive leadership behavior, prompted by the global pandemic and ongoing moments of social upheaval. Citing a year of profound disruption, 86 percent of brand leaders...
Ten years ago, a data breach that compromised the details of a million people would have been big news. Today, it wouldn’t even make page ten—we regularly see reports that billions of records have been accidentally released. In just two of the biggest breaches on this...
Much changed in 2020 about the way marketers worked, from the technology they used to the frequency with which they visited company offices. But many things did not change, including the extent to which B2C marketers relied on digital messaging to engage customers and...