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Why Public Relations Is King During A Crisis

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Marketing strategies are being altered and advertising budgets are being slashed. The role of public relations is to positively place a brand into news stories. If you can insert your brand into those conversations early enough, you can create incredible earned media exposure as the volume of those stories grows.

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6 Public Relations Tips For Brands In 2018

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A recent study by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and the USC Center for Public Relations found that marketers plan to increase staffing and overall spending on public relations over the next five years. Here’s a “cheat sheet” to help brands get a leg up on the PR universe this year.

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Newsjacking: How Brands Can Use Current Events To Make News

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Newsjacking is a powerful tactic for marketing and public relations. It involves capitalizing on current events and trending news stories to promote or offer comment from a brand, product, or service. A swift and reactive response to news lets brands insert themselves into ongoing conversations, offering timely and relevant insights.

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Brands Start To Open Up

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The past two months have been extraordinarily challenging for brand communications and PR people. In the initial weeks of the COVID-19 shutdown, brands struggled to find the right response. Many brands see an opening. ” So what’s a brand to do? Early efforts were tentative, pretentious, or even shallow.

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Why Message Optimization is Key to Brand Success

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Successful brands put a lot of thought into their messaging, how they want to deliver those messages and through which channels, and how they want to evolve them over time. Being ranked on the first page of Google search results under specific terms related to your company is one of the most effective ways to build brand awareness and equity.

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Advertising vs Publicity

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It’s the age-old question… what is more impactful to a business – advertising or publicity? You might be surprised to learn that it’s actually publicity. #1 1 – publicity is free – advertising you pay for. #2 3 – publicity is what we call “earned media.”

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How To Set Expectations In Public Relations

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Public relations is known for being versatile, occasionally glamorous, and, yes, stressful. If you want a product launch to be covered in a top-tier publication, journalists will need to talk to someone who has used the product or can speak to its market value. Some of the pressure we encounter in PR is preventable, however.

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