Since the onset of the pandemic, brands have prioritized digital channels for everything from customer support to commerce. In fact, the rise of digital commerce has accelerated in almost every consumer facing industry: kiosks are the new waiters; mobile apps the new...
PR in 2022: 4 predictions for the year ahead
If the past two years have taught us anything, it’s to brace ourselves for uncertainty. As 2021 comes to a close, the world continues to evolve, and PR is changing along with it. And while it’s impossible to predict all the new developments ahead, the PR industry has...
How to calculate and measure customer lifetime value the right way
Customer lifetime value is an important metric that measures how much value a business can reasonably expect to make from a single customer during the course of their relationship. CLV is a relatively straightforward equation and it can become a metric small business...
8 forward-looking tips for advancing your digital marketing career
Digital marketing is an in-demand career field, and a potentially lucrative one, with countless opportunities for personal evolution. If you want to keep making more money and earning more influence, you’ll need to work to advance yourself. Here are the best ways to...
Media monitoring during a global crisis: 6 best practices
The COVID-19 pandemic sent the world into a frenzy, and brands were no exception. While many companies shared messages about staying safe at home, some brands like the David Suzuki Foundation found more creative ways to engage with their community in such a...
The 9 necessary SEO KPIs every business should be tracking
Building relationships and opening up communication with the general public isn’t always the easiest thing to do. There are so many pitfalls for PR today making it almost impossible to tell whether your content just isn’t relevant or if it hasn’t got the anticipated...
4 musts for the travel industry to ensure your CX flies first class
Planning a trip this year? Airports look different—and not only because of mask mandates. Traveling was a stressful adventure even before the pandemic. Now, health concerns, behavior expectations, increased travelers, labor shortages, and constantly changing policies...
Why you should be researching competitors on social media
Companies that are able to succeed on social media platforms will be fast to evolve, and can focus on continuously improving their business. When a business is constantly able to improve its social strategy, it finds new and better ways to share its story, connect...
How the wrong spokesperson can be detrimental to your client
Even though I covered sports for about a decade as a journalist prior to entering the PR business, and was also the sports marketing specialist for many years at Burson-Marsteller (in addition to playing key roles on none sports accounts), I always cautioned clients...
8 must-know SEO hacks to rocket your rankings
Is your business struggling to reach customers? That’s probably because of poor SEO practices. Customers use search engines like Google to look for products and services. If your business doesn’t show up on the top of the search results page, there’s an extremely low...
People-based adaptive marketing—4 examples of success
People-based adaptive marketing takes a personal approach to marketing, allowing businesses to customize messaging and deliver campaigns at optimal times. People-based adaptive marketers sponsor hackathons these days. Hackathons are events that bring together internal...
6 tips for combining social and digital PR for brand growth
Combining social media and digital public relations helps you leverage the strengths of both communication channels to create a memorable and distinctive brand. Social and digital PR can help you amplify growth by targeting the right audience, telling compelling...