ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Between the PR and marketing functions of any organization there can be creative tension or even competition. PR and marketing are perceived very differently, especially in a corporate environment. PR and marketing are perceived very differently, especially in a corporate environment. A sudden market shift or crisis.

Marketing 310

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Karen Freberg

MARCH 12, 2022

One of the things that I have always tried to do in my classes is experiment and explore new ways to teach students valuable, marketable, and current skills they need to be successful in the workplace. Allowing for creativity in assignments is KEY! My social media class has some standard assignments that are always incorporated (ex.

Creativity 99

Creativity Social Media Groups Video 99

Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Tie that same concept into content marketing, and you’ve got gamified content. Here’s a look at why gamified content works so well in brand marketing and ways to start playing with it. Here’s a look at why gamified content works so well in brand marketing and ways to start playing with it. What is gamification in marketing?

Marketing 95

Marketing Content Marketing Analysis B2B 95

Deirdre Breakenridge

MARCH 12, 2015

Years ago, I was a PR person working at a creative marketing communications agency. The company had three distinct divisions: PR / Communications (that was my area), Creative Marketing & Advertising and Web, Multimedia & Video. We shared ideas, concepts and I was able to watch how creative ideas came to life.

Creativity 150

Creativity Web Social Media Data 150

Agility PR Solutions

MAY 20, 2020

Most of us are working remotely these days, and that includes creatives and designers. According to new research from workflow software firm inMotionNow examining the COVID crisis’ impact on the creative community, these pros seem to be well-adapted to the move.

Creativity 85

Creativity Software Crisis Course 85

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Professionals across the globe share analysis and perhaps, aspiration, in offering up PR and marketing predictions for 2022. As I’ve done for the last several years , I solicited and compiled a list of predictions from professionals across the PR and marketing community. Tom Pick , Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity , LLC.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 28, 2022

For a creative services firm – like ad, PR or marketing agencies – differentiation is key. The implication is that its team is free to offer top creative and client-centered work. The implication is that its team is free to offer top creative and client-centered work. And it sometimes applies.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 21, 2018

Limited is the operative word, because while measurements are important, you can’t directly measure everything, like the impact of creativity, and yet we know these things have value. However, I think the marketing community has over-corrected and the more strategic marketers value both the art and science of marketing.

Creativity 63

Creativity Marketing Analytics Measurement 63

Prohibition

APRIL 3, 2024

Here we are going to take a look at the differences between the two and pick out the benefits that social media marketing has over those traditional methods. Cheaper creative options Traditional advertisements come at quite a high expense, which can limit certain companies due to the advertising budget not being so high.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 25, 2022

The chances of marketing content going viral are slim. Marketing and PR are hard enough without the addition of a self-imposed restriction. I’ve long advised marketers to use a Creative Commons license. Creative Commons has several different licenses that can both meet your needs and clearly facilitate sharing.

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Infographics Marketing Viral Creativity 107

Beyond PR

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Analytics has opened up an entirely new world to marketers, sending many down the data rabbit hole. Overreliance on analytics overshadows creativity, which can hinder your chances to earn more media. Creative is a critical factor in the success of any marketing communications team. People drive a brand, not analytics.

Creativity 70

Creativity Marketing Media Analytics 70

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Of course, the growth and speed of real artificial intelligence and its impact may well be overblown. Most experts doubt that neural net-powered artificial creativity can ever equal true human creativity. So, why aren’t we lucky creative services types taking advantage of this?

Marketing 173

Marketing Storytelling Creativity Privacy 173

PRSay

MAY 9, 2023

However, now that public relations is overlapping with marketing, you’d think demonstrating a return on investment (ROI) would be getting easier. If there’s anything marketing has a lot of, then it’s metrics. However, most recently, EMV is used to evaluate ROI for influencer marketing campaigns. How Soulmates.ai

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Measurement Marketing Pharmaceuticals Social Media 103

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The pendulum of marketing can only swing in one direction at a time, but at some point, the forces of gravity slow the swing and eventually take it back in the other direction. I sense we are reaching that point in marketing, with respect to data and creativity. For years marketing leaders have all heard data, data, data.

Creativity 75

Creativity Study Survey Advertising 75

wiredPRworks

APRIL 29, 2020

One of the fun things about being a creative is, well, you get to be creative! – that mapped out the best possible creative solutions? When you automate creativity, you discover the best options. Small changes in creative lead to big changes in performance. Marpipe is a multivariate creative testing platform.

Creativity 52

Creativity How To Engineering Advertising 52

wiredPRworks

APRIL 29, 2020

One of the fun things about being a creative is, well, you get to be creative! – that mapped out the best possible creative solutions? When you automate creativity, you discover the best options. Small changes in creative lead to big changes in performance. Marpipe is a multivariate creative testing platform.

Creativity 52

Creativity How To Engineering Advertising 52

Critical Mention

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The new model for content creation and marketing regarding social media has shifted from just pushing content for the sake of promoting yourself to become more personalized, interactive and focused on storytelling. The post A Crash Course in Social Media appeared first on Critical Mention - Media Monitoring. SCHEDULE A DEMO.

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Remote PR Jobs

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Describe how you tackled challenges, built strong relationships, or led creative strategies. This is a unique skill that requires empathy, a creative touch, and a deep understanding of both clients and media—and one that shows your drive to get powerful stories out into the world.

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Publicity How To Examples Crisis Management 261

Communications Conversations

APRIL 19, 2022

Of course, the marketing community was all over this. In fact, this thread by Morning Brew’s Jack Appleby claims that 50 marketers in a recent Twitter chat thought the tweet thread was a complete joke, and irreparabaly harmed the social media industry by insinuating social media interns are completely inept. I get that.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Some marketing and communications predictions suggest AI will change the world; others see a tailspin of noise and and see humanity as a path for differentiation Most marketing and PR professionals have formed strong viewpoints on AI. That much is apparent I compiled this year’s list of marketing and communications predictions.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 7, 2021

PR agency teams, like all creative services people, love to keep our clients happy. In PR, we of course want to get as many quality stories as possible, and we typically have a good idea of what will result when we’re managing a news announcement, for example. We can definitely generate XX earned media placements. Immediately?!

Agency 353

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 23, 2021

As we turn the page on the year, it’s time to look at the trends that affect PR and marketing communications. Of course, the changes we see aren’t usually sudden. Purpose and values-based communications will become an essential part of the marketing toolbox. The talent market in many industries is tighter than ever.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s a digital marketing academy to support marketing professions in developing an integrated communications strategy from scratch. Do you think COVID-19 will have a long-term impact on marketing services? How has Unwritten managed the creative process during lockdown? Lisa launched Fabric during lockdown.

Marketing 78

Marketing Training Pinterest Creativity 78

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is particularly true for marketing, and the same applies to brand and corporate communications. The future of event marketing will be in hybrid happenings that attract both physical and virtual participants and attendees. Marketing and corporate communications will overlap. It never went away, of course.

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Karen Freberg

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Influencer marketing has become one of the MAIN things many professionals working in social media are asked to do. As a professor, I know many of my fellow colleagues are actively teaching influencer marketing. As a professor, I know many of my fellow colleagues are actively teaching influencer marketing.

Creativity 56

Creativity Marketing Social Media Analytics 56

Sword and the Script

JUNE 12, 2018

This was, of course, a very embarrassing. It’s one of two creative press releases examples that recently crossed my radar and I’m sharing here in this post. As PRWeek reported : “Of course, the ‘draft’ was intentionally sent to relevant media outlets to earn coverage of the limited time menu item. The edits were eccentric.

Creativity 60

Creativity Infographics B2B Corporate 60

Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Public relations vs marketing—what are the differences? Public relations (PR) and marketing are closely related, but few know the differences. Some organisations have Communications Departments for their public relations needs and some have Marketing Departments for their promotional needs.

Publicity 52

Publicity Marketing eBook Public Affairs 52

Prohibition

AUGUST 4, 2023

social media marketing efforts, social media marketing campaigns, entire video, many brands, drive traffic In today’s digital age, social media video marketing has emerged as a powerful tool for businesses to engage with their target audience.

Social Media 118

Social Media Video Marketing Media 118

Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In response, brands are investing more in video marketing content than ever to meet such strong engagement and potential ROI. Of the marketers who responded to Wyzowl’s State of Video Marketing 2023 report , 92% say video gives them a good return on their investment. And brands noticed.

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Video Strategy Marketing Instagram 125

Mindful Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2022

by David Hagenbuch - professor of marketing at Messiah University - ​author of Honorable Influence - founder of Mindful Marketing Millions of baseball fans were recently watching televised games when they were unexpectedly hit by a pitch! A veteran marketer and an up-and-coming rookie argue the call.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Communicators found their influence grew with executives, even as the functions they performed evolved in 2022; PR and marketing alike battled to win trust amid clutter, noise and skepticism. Every year I read and write about dozens of reports on B2B marketing and PR. 12% say competing go-to-market strategy or goals (KPIs).

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 29, 2019

While the rate has been trending down since 2010, it’s still largely been an employer’s market since the housing market popped a couple years before then. To that end, here are a few creative PR ideas to help the recruiting shop out. 2) Think creatively: guerilla recruiting tactics. That changed in 2018.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 27, 2022

Brands get creative on social channels. Media relationships, of course, are at the heart of PR plan execution. Email marketing connects the dots. One best practice for email marketing is to push out a newsletter at the same time as a press release is published and news is posted on social channels.

Social Media 322

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Shift Communications

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Content marketing isn’t a panacea. More important, however, is that content marketing can hit diminishing returns very quickly, in a phenomenon first described by marketing expert Mark W. Our ROI on content marketing will go down. Bob Stone’s framework is elegantly simple: list, offer, creative.

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Content Marketing Marketing Facebook Creativity 158

Mindful Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

by David Hagenbuch - professor of marketing at Messiah University - ​author of Honorable Influence - founder of Mindful Marketing How do you position a business ethics book versus dozens of others on the market? That’s been a top-of-mind question and exciting opportunity while writing my book on Mindful Marketing.

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Writing Technology Ethics Course 115

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

AUGUST 29, 2023

Regrettably, advertising and marketing seem to remain a notable instance of this disparity. In advertising and marketing, however, this rich mixture has historically been depicted through the lens of Caucasian individuals. Brand marketing is a key arena where the call for inclusivity has grown louder and more resonant than ever before.

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Branding Brand Marketing Ethics 90

Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

It’s also common for specialized agencies to be hired on a project basis for repositioning or when market research is required. Give yourself a crash-course in PR measurement here or email info@airpr.com for more information on how we can help you measure your PR efforts. Event & Experiential Marketing. Speaking Engagements.

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