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Storytelling That Stands Out

Ronn Torossian

With so many marketers using storytelling to engage their audiences, how do brands stand out among the competition? Humor is one way. Not only are consumers wired to read and listen to stories, but they’re also highly receptive to humor because it grabs attention and makes the brand more human. Consumers have a lot more […]. The post Storytelling That Stands Out appeared first on.

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Newsletters Every PR Pro Should Subscribe To

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Every good PR person has the same best friend – email. In the business of public relations, email is essential for communicating with partners, journalists and future clients. We’re not alone in this, but in the communication business, email still reigns supreme. It keeps us up-to-date on meetings, client communications and industry changes. In fact, email newsletters are a fast way for PRs to scan the daily headlines from a given publication in the hope that a long awaited exclusive has f

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The Audience Journey: Is your brand navigating it effectively?

Cision

Do you really know your audience? Are you guiding them to the right places at the right time? Top takeaways from our Audience Journey webinar can help refine your strategy.

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Review: ReputationDefender’s New Personal Branding Solution

Melissa Agnes

Investing in your professional online reputation is an important Crisis Ready strategy—and ReputationDefender has launched a service to help make this process easy for you. Have you put strategic thought into what people find when they google your name? Unfortunately, in my experience, most professionals don’t think about their professional brand , how well it represents them, and how strong it is within the search engine result pages, until it’s too late.

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The Upside of Leaked Internal Communications: 2024 Mini Benchmark Report

Leaked internal communications can be strategically valuable assets rather than just risks to manage. When used proactively, these leaks can highlight leadership and innovation—qualities that resonate in today’s media. By approaching internal comms with a dual-purpose approach, companies shift from mere risk avoidance to leveraging these moments as credible public messages around strategy.

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Five Winning Owned Media Strategies

Onclusive

Growth PR starts with crafting a narrative using data. It’s a way to discover what your audience cares about and what drives behavior that delivers tangible results for your company. Essentially, growth PR helps your story get told on the right channels. Owned media is a critical component to every growth PR strategy. Learn how you can level up your growth PR strategies using your owned media in this whitepaper.

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A Cision Report: The State of the 2020 Election

Cision

Join us each week as we update our media analysis of The State of the 2020 Election.

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5 Ways to Build Better Journalist Relationships

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

For PR people , few things are more important than media relationships. Ties with journalists don’t guarantee results, but they’re an important entree to getting out the stories we tell for clients. Good relations with reporters and producers usually means your pitch will get a hearing at the very least. Often it means you’ll get valuable feedback even if every offer doesn’t turn into a quick story.

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Disinformation in society: New Institute of PR research examines and tracks its spread

Agility PR Solutions

We’ve seen how disinformation has become a major source of chaos in the media, and likewise on down the chain to the communications industry—but how does deliberately misleading or biased information spread in U.S. society, what parties are most responsible for sharing it, and whose job is it to combat it? New research from the […]. The post Disinformation in society: New Institute of PR research examines and tracks its spread appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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Master Video Conferences With These 5 Steps

PRSay

As the pandemic summer of 2020 winds down, it is abundantly clear that working from home and video meetings will continue to be the norm, even as some companies have begun to partially return to physical workplaces. What are some of the best practices of video conferencing that have emerged over the last six months of remote work? And what etiquette should communicators consistently model to strengthen virtual relationships with peers, clients, media and stakeholders?

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The Importance of Personalizing Your Press Release for Journalists

Journalists receive an overwhelming number of press releases daily, making it hard for your news to stand out. While some news is valuable, most is not.

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Keep the faith as a COVID-19 summer turns into fall

Steve Barrett on PR

The resilience of everyone has been tested to the extreme by the events of this year, but the PR industry has shown it has the strength and resilience to come through the other side battered but unbowed.

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Crenshaw Nominated For 2020 PRSA-NY Big Apple Awards

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The Crenshaw team is delighted to be nominated for a 2020 PRSA Big Apple award. The Big Apples are the gold standard of excellence for PR practitioners in the New York metro area and celebrate the best work of PR agencies, companies, governmental bodies, and not-for-profit organizations during the prior year. . This year, we have been nominated in the B2B PR category for our campaign on behalf of event management software company Bizzabo.

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Making a Cover Letter Count

Ishmael's Corner

The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations. Techniques For Effective Business Communications. By Chris Owen, Director, Hoffman Europe We’re on the lookout for a recent graduate to join the team here at Hoffman, which means navigating through cover letters and CVs, both of which constantly veer between the brilliant and the downright stale.

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How marketers can make engaging and effective product videos

Agility PR Solutions

The big challenge of every e-commerce business working to promote their work online is to increase its visibility as a brand. The harsh truth is that people find many, many products that, at first glance, might not be that different from yours. So, if you want your prospects to understand how your product’s unique features […]. The post How marketers can make engaging and effective product videos appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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Do's and Don'ts: How to Pitch Your Press Release to Journalists

Speaker: Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, Author, Speaker

Yes - press releases are still relevant in the world of public relations! 🎯 Ever wondered how to write a compelling press release, or what are current best practices for pitching your news to earn media coverage? In this exclusive webinar with Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, we’ll cover tips and advice to help you get the most out of each piece of news you pitch!

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Public Relations Is at the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Ethics

PRSay

Each September, PRSA celebrates Ethics Month, featuring programs presented by the PRSA Board of Ethics and Professional Standards (BEPS). This year’s theme is “Doing the Right Thing.” Please join the discussion via #PRSAChat and #EthicsMonth, and follow along with our ethics-related blog posts, webinars and Twitter Chats throughout the month. The World Economic Forum (WEF), in 2016, identified the nine most pressing ethical issues we face as artificial intelligence (AI) transitions from science

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Why Small Businesses Need to Invest in Their Digital Presence

Garrett Public Relations

For years, small businesses have asked the question – do we really need a digital presence? The answer is – yes. Research shows that much of our audience was already online before the pandemic. Studies conducted before March 2020 reported that 70 to 80% of people research a small business online BEFORE visiting the business […]. The post Why Small Businesses Need to Invest in Their Digital Presence appeared first on PR Consultant Garrett Public Relations Columbus/Worthington OH.

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$100 Million M&A for Internal Comms Tool: What’s Older is Still News in Marchlyjunetember [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Internal comms tool SocialChorus acquired by a PE firm; Burton-Taylor digs up revenue numbers; Nexis Newsdesk Simplifies news search; Propel adds broadcast monitoring Welcome to the beginning of September. That’s hard to believe – that we are somehow closer to the end of the year than the beginning – and at the same time, the pre-pandemic era feels like 10 years ago.

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Restaurant recovery: How to remain profitable in 2020 and beyond

Agility PR Solutions

New research from restaurant tech company OneDine highlights a three-part plan for “Restaurant Recovery” in 2020 and beyond following the impact of COVID-19. Generally speaking, most restaurants must function at 75 percent capacity in order to achieve profitability. With many now operating at 50 percent capacity or less, it’s essential to identify how they can make […].

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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13 Virtual Events for Journalists and Bloggers in September

Cision

Make room on your calendar for one or several of these learning opportunities for journalists, bloggers, and freelancers in September.

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New Brandwatch Social Panel tool for virtual focus groups

Stephen Waddington

Brandwatch adds virtual focus groups to platform with Social Panels. Consumer research has been tricky during the pandemic. It’s been challenging to run focus groups and polling. Survey fatigue has also become an issue. Brandwatch reckons it has an answer. It has developed a tool as part of its Brandwatch Consumer Research platform to listen to public conversation from specific groups of people by demographic or interest.

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If the FDA Called Us About a Communications Plan for the COVID-19 Vaccine

Ishmael's Corner

The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations. Techniques For Effective Business Communications. Everyone is counting on the vaccine to return the planet to its axis and the economy to growth mode. Yet polling shows many Americans — depending on the poll, anywhere from 33% to 50% — would take a pass on vaccination. That’s a problem.

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7 ways to use humor in your presentation

Agility PR Solutions

The recent surge in video conferencing brought on by the COVID pandemic has provided a wealth of comedic material for social media – from bosses transforming themselves into potatoes to Saturday Night Live’s take on the ubiquitous Zoom call, and many fails and awkward moments in between. my boss turned herself into a potato on […]. The post 7 ways to use humor in your presentation appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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Adapting to the Future: The Evolving Role of Crisis Management Firms in a Rapidly Changing World

As the Internet continues to grow and change, the role of Online Crisis Management firms is evolving. This article explores how these firms are adapting to the new topography of Online Crisis Management. Through interviews with industry experts and case studies, we uncover the key strategies and tactics that are driving success in this dynamic field.

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UK Media Moves including The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Scotsman and more!

Cision

Laura Atkinson now Editor of STYLE at The Sunday Times; Kuba Shand-Baptiste now Acting Deputy Editor on The Independent's Voices desk; Alexander Brown joins The Scotsman as Westminster Correspondent.

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A new term for professional communicators

Stephen Waddington

The next four months are likely to be as chaotic as the last eight. Here are some of the issues that need to be front of mind as we head towards 2021. Communication teams, both internal and external, have never been so valued by organisations Strategic communications will focus on vaccinating products and services, continuing to market, and planning what comes next Return to the office is likely to see a hybrid home and office approach depending on the size of the organisation The job market wil

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Another Reason for Business to Avoid Politics: People are Sick of Politics

Sword and the Script

55% of adult social media users are “worn out” many political posts – it’s another reason brands should avoid politics Every so often a survey comes along that supposedly suggests customers want businesses to take a stand on politics. The first one came along a few years ago – conducted and pushed by a large PR firm. It made lots of headlines that echoed the “findings.

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Classical marketing: The persuasive secrets of Aristotle

Agility PR Solutions

“Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible,” Aristotle. Persuasion is the name of the game when it comes to public relations and marketing. The very nature of the field is to convince someone to want and consume a product or service. […]. The post Classical marketing: The persuasive secrets of Aristotle appeared first on Agility PR Solutions.

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Peter H. Paulsen’s Inspiring Tale Continues to Resonate in 2024

Two years after its initial release, Peter H. Paulsen’s book, From Brick and Mortar to Prosperity, continues to inspire readers around the globe.

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UK Media Moves including Law.com International, Interactive Investor, Euronews Living and more

Cision

Paul Hodkinson now Editor-in-Chief of Law.com International; Kyle Caldwell appointed Collectives Editor at Interactive Investor; Maeve Campbell has been promoted to Deputy Editor at Euronews Living.

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7 best online reputation management tools for your business

Awario

In this article, we gathered online reputation management tools that will help you take care of your brand and save it from possible troubles.

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Getting on Local TV

PR for Anyone

The best place to start with PR is to get on local media. Many people aspire for national television but starting local is the best place to get your feet wet. You wouldn’t want to get your first big break on a national outlet and then bomb the interview. They likely won’t have you back again. Testing the waters on local television is a a smaller audience and allows you start slowly and get comfortable with how a television interview really works.

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