Ronn Torossian

Ronn Torossian
Ronn Torossian is shaping AI — and the answers inside the chatbox. Founder and chairman of 5W AI Communications, the AI Communications Firm. Founded in 2003, 5W combines earned media, digital marketing, and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) to build brand authority inside the AI engines — a Top U.S. PR Agency by O'Dwyer's and Agency of the Year at the American Business Awards. Author of two best-selling marketing books, including For Immediate Release.
Do’s and don’ts of social media marketing

Do’s and don’ts of social media marketing

Social media marketing can raise the popularity of a brand significantly. It is important to utilize the power of social media to a brand’s fullest advantage. Some businesses have done remarkably well in growing customer awareness and translating that to leads. At...

Comms lessons learned from 4 brands’ marketing campaigns

Comms lessons learned from 4 brands’ marketing campaigns

It is important to continue to listen to customers even if a business thinks it has them figured out. There is always a lot to be learned from major marketing and digital PR campaigns. Although most of the marketing campaigns that are cited below are by brands that...

Corporate collusions, crisis communications and regulations

Corporate collusions, crisis communications and regulations

Recently, the car corporations Audi, Volkswagen, BMW, Porsche, and Mercedes-Benz, along with the parent company Daimler, were fined $1 billion by the European Union because they had spent years colluding on ways to slow down the deployment of technology that would...

5 reasons to include user-generated content in promotional campaigns

5 reasons to include user-generated content in promotional campaigns

Any content that’s created by the target audience of a company instead of the company itself is called user-generated content. Companies often use and share user-generated content on their own social media accounts, websites, digital PR or other marketing platforms....

8 actions that can make a PR crisis worse

8 actions that can make a PR crisis worse

While timely action can prevent the worst consequences of a PR crisis, there are certain actions that an organization can take that will make the crisis worse. The worst things that an organization can do that will make a PR crisis worse are: Lying Since the point of...

5 insights on the value of observing customer behavior

5 insights on the value of observing customer behavior

Once customer behavior is analyzed successfully, businesses can engage people more effectively. Studying consumer buying behavior leads to a greater understanding of the expectations of customers. By assessing what leads a consumer to decide on a product, a business...

6 marketing strategies to boost your brand on YouTube

6 marketing strategies to boost your brand on YouTube

YouTube is an incredibly powerful network. Creating a video, optimizing it, and getting it ranked high on Google for any given keyword are the strategies that need to be focused on by marketers. YouTube is a took which marketers should focus on. Some marketing...

Looking back on crises and responses in the midst of the pandemic

Looking back on crises and responses in the midst of the pandemic

The last fifteen months have been difficult around the globe due to the pandemic. When the World Health Organization first announced that the virus has spread to multiple countries, many of them announced the closing down of locations where people tend to gather in...

Avoid ‘Cancel Culture’ with this crisis PR checklist

Avoid ‘Cancel Culture’ with this crisis PR checklist

The consequences for mismanaging communications during an unfortunate situation can cost companies millions, employees their careers, and even ostracization from social media. Sometimes referred to as “Cancel Culture”, the fact of the matter is that thanks to social...