Next to customers who rave about a brand to their friends and family and influencers with loyal followers, employees who are evangelists for a brand they work for can be most effective and credible. The pandemic produced interesting marketing results by revealing that...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Everyone needs an editor. In our world of public relations, everyone is a writer and an editor at some point. Here are some tips for being a better editor, whether you are reviewing the work of a colleague or giving your own first draft one last look: Read it...
Reaching new people and attracting more consumers is best done through public relations. There are plenty of ways that brands and corporations can land great media placements in big publications and generally get great media coverage, even with a limited marketing and...
Typically, cold outreach involved emailing a journalist or site owner who you’d never connected with before. These days, it’s not so different in that people are still emailing new prospects they have never met. But, it’s easier than ever before to slowly build...
Without a diverse group of voices in the newsroom, journalism can’t function the way it’s supposed to. It can’t be the essential, fair, impartial information source that it aspires to be. News outlets will miss important stories, and other stories, according to the...
Blogger outreach is the process of reaching out to bloggers, often via email, and the primary goal of is generally some form of link building. That could be a guest post request or a link insert request. Blogger outreach is also used to create brand awareness, PR, and...