Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 9, 2024

When LinkedIn first rolled out, it was a useful place for people to network, search for jobs, and share updates — and look up whatever happened to that coworker from 10 years ago. With more than one billion members, LinkedIn can be a key platform for promoting and building a business’s brand. Take, for example, TD Bank.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 21, 2025

There are also, generally speaking, traditional gaps in a communicators skill set, such as math, which hurts our credibility with executive leadership. Most of these are focused on marketing, communications, leadership and psychology. Weekly writing If you are reading this you know I produce a weekly blog post.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Dedicate a few hours each week to researching companies, following “early careers” social media accounts, and setting up LinkedIn and PRSSA alerts. Keep in mind that many global firms require writing samples, scenario-based assessments and other prescreening, so research these expectations and plan ahead. Maximize LinkedIn.

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The practice has gained significant traction on professional networks like LinkedIn, where employee posts generate twice the click-through rates of company posts. Unlike traditional corporate communications, employee advocacy provides authentic perspectives that resonate with audiences on a personal level.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 18, 2021

Thought leadership events keep on giving. Alternatively, a short and compelling video testimonial can work well as part of an explainer video or even on a business platform like LinkedIn. Many journalists won’t write these types of stories without participation from both parties.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 10, 2019

But according to the 2018 USC Annenberg Center for Public Relations Global Communications Report , writing is the skill most valued by PR recruiters. Successful PR people tend to be good writers; yet even more impressive than the quality of good PR writing is its versatility. Am I boring you? A blog-eat-blog world .

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Rock the Status Quo

OCTOBER 27, 2014

tweet this ) LinkedIn is a perfect example. It may not be sexy or glamorous – but if you are integrating digital tactics into your PR, a simple solution to gain visibility for your CEO ( or other leadership executive ) is this: use LinkedIn’s publisher platform. What is it?

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5W PR

JUNE 2, 2022

Plenty of businesses use LinkedIn to connect with more potential customers. However, there are several different ways that they can create content that will reach their marketing goals on LinkedIn, and one of the best ones is by starting a business newsletter on the platform. Writing the Newsletter.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MAY 23, 2017

A good public relations professional will counsel their client to have a blog or content hub as a way to showcase thought leadership, earned media placements, company news, and announcements, and engage with fans and followers. When you’re writing content for a client, you probably don’t pick up your pen on the day of deadline.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

High demand for experienced communicators “Corporate communications professionals will continue to advance into top organizational leadership roles as their unrivaled combination of business strategy and stakeholder insight continues to become more essential. .” ~ Jason Brown , PublicCity PR, Principal PublicCity PR 9.

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Prowly

JANUARY 23, 2025

To strategize better , learn the dos and donts of the quintessential trade media workflow: Task #1: Finding trade media contacts Task #2: Writing pitches to trade media Task #3: Maintaining the relationships See how Prowlys features live up to the challenge of hyper-targeting trade media. Wondering if youve missed some outlets?

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Konnect Agency

AUGUST 10, 2022

“Thought leadership” is a buzzy phrase that is often thrown around in business circles, but when executed correctly it can be very beneficial in driving awareness and trust for your brand. Why is social media a key part of your thought leadership strategy and how a social media agency can help. Identify Which Platforms to Focus On.

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Rock the Status Quo

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Consider ways to expand editorial placements with personal branding campaigns for c-suite leadership and your subject matter experts ! Three Essential Ways to Help Corporate Leadership Build a Personal Brand Online 1. Take advantage of the LinkedIn blogging platform – called long-form posts.

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5W PR

JANUARY 14, 2025

Conduct thorough research into their readership, editorial focus, and writing style. Publish thought leadership pieces, case studies, white papers, and blog posts that address key industry challenges and offer valuable insights. Identify the specific publications, journalists, and influencers who cover that niche.

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Reputation Us

APRIL 18, 2017

There’s another powerful tool in the PR toolbox — Thought Leadership. But, what is thought leadership and who constitutes being a leader of thought? I’m not here to say stop writing news releases. I am here to say write fewer, better ones and spend more time leveraging your best kept secrets – your thought leaders.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 31, 2019

LinkedIn followers, btw). Nope, Sara Blakely , the founder and CEO of Spanx is the best CEO on LinkedIn. She doesn’t have the largest “following” on LinkedIn (378,000+), but Sara’s last ten posts averaged: 67,451 likes. Other times she talks about leadership. Not Microsoft’s Satya Nadella.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

If a CEO offers expert commentary – or a byline or guest blog post in a key media outlet, that content can earn valuable visibility and leadership positioning for the organization. If you write it, leads will come. A company’s best thought leaders should be writing as much as possible for use on owned media.

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PRSay

MARCH 22, 2023

In the communications profession, they are now several years into their careers and earning supervisor, manager and leadership roles at agencies, corporations, brands and organizations of all sizes. Fittingly, a post on leadership appeared from Patrice Sutherland. In 2023, the oldest Gen Zers will turn 26 years old.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 21, 2019

Speaking engagements are an effective way to shape executive thought leadership. To take action and amplify its push for gender diversity, it created its own women’s leadership half-day conference called Empower , held on International Women’s Day. See this post for tips on writing stellar bylines. Take the stage.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 2, 2019

Here are some key tactics for PR pros to build executive visibility and thought leadership. A leadership campaign should include a robust bylined content program. See this post for tips on writing stellar executive bylines. Finding a voice in the media. This usually doesn’t happen overnight. Bylines and blogs.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 5, 2023

After working in public relations for more than 25 years and then becoming a leadership consultant and trainer, Ken Jacobs knows that the PR profession often promotes people into management and leadership “because they’re good at PR, they’re good with media, they’re good with clients and new biz. People choose whom they follow.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 1, 2018

Contributed articles bylined by a key executive are part of any PR program that emphasizes thought leadership. Within a thought leadership campaign, B2B bylines should offer value to the reader. The executive bylining the piece should be writing about an area where he has clear expertise and a distinct point of view.

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Cision

APRIL 18, 2017

If not, complete the following exercise: Write down all of the questions you are asked in new business—aka sales—meetings. Write down all of the questions your customer service department is asked. Write down what your domain authority is, which is listed in the left-hand side of the box, right underneath your website’s URL.

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PR Job Coach

JULY 29, 2011

What do you for a hobby: collect stamps, ride a motorcycle, write poetry or sample every restaurant in town? Start building your own “thought leadership” credentials by blogging, commenting, tweeting or employing numerous other social infrastructure platforms. Worst comes to worse use your credit cards but sparingly.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 10, 2017

Not to mention all the conferences and travel you can write off! Sure, most PR pros have thousands of LinkedIn connections. You can find her on Twitter and LinkedIn. You imagine having complete control over what clients you work with. Do you have a strong network? A network you can turn to for vendor recommendations.

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PRSay

JANUARY 29, 2024

Biesenbach, a keynote speaker, workshop leader and author based in Chicago, joined Strategies & Tactics Live , PRSA’s monthly livestream on LinkedIn on Jan. Top of the list: Write a manifesto about your leadership values. You can watch the playback on LinkedIn here. Just start free-associating,” he suggested.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 29, 2017

Marketing may be underestimating the impact of thought leadership on sales, according to a comprehensive study published in June 2017 by Edelman and LinkedIn. The study concluded thought leadership “attracts invitations to bid (RFPs), earns buyer preference by building trust, directly contributes to wins, and can even impact pricing.”.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JULY 24, 2018

I’ve been writing a lot about the Modern Communicator and answering questions that have flowed in through Twitter, Skype, LinkedIn and Facebook. Who is the Modern Communicator? What does it take to become one, and how can you be more effective with your communication, whether it’s for your professional brand or your business?

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PRSay

MARCH 21, 2023

In the communications profession, they are now several years into their careers and earning supervisor, manager and leadership roles at agencies, corporations, brands and organizations of all sizes. Fittingly, a post on leadership appeared from Patrice Sutherland. In 2023, the oldest Gen Zers will turn 26 years old.

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Critical Mention

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

It’s clear that LinkedIn is an incredible resource for finding your next job, but what some may not know is that LinkedIn is also one of the most effective tools for PR. And according to LinkedIn’s Sophisticated Marketer’s Guide to LinkedIn , 94% of B2B companies use LinkedIn as a content distribution channel.

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Flack's Revenge

JULY 28, 2020

I strongly recommend you contact him for any thought leadership coaching and writing help (here is his LinkedIn profile ). , he helped me nail the all-important CPOP – customer point-of-pain (referenced in the title of this post) Fusion PR addresses. Mitchell and his team were a pleasure to work with.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

in elephant to survive in the same room.” — Drew McCaskill, LinkedIn career expert and culture and economics contributor at SiriusXM. • “We’re all born writers.” — Jodi Marr, Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer and professor of commercial songwriting at Belmont University. If you really want to stand out, have an opinion.

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PRSay

JUNE 16, 2023

In public relations, generative AI has the potential to automate routine tasks such as writing press releases, social media posts and email pitches, thus allowing practitioners to focus on strategic, big-picture work. Connect with him on LinkedIn. This, in turn, can lead to better outcomes for clients and organizations.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 11, 2023

In this guest post, Kathy Casciani writes public relations podcasts provide a sound way to work on your professional development while habit stacking – listening while doing routine tasks, such as chores In case you hadn’t noticed, podcasts are having a moment.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Authoring a weekly blog allows a leader to write in her own voice – which becomes part of the voice of the brand. Consistent production of longer PR content allows one to take control of one’s public image instead of leaving it to the interpretation of sound bites, a LinkedIn summary, or “official” channels like annual reports.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Recently I went back through all the write-ups I’ve published on surveys and boiled the results down to these ten. B2B thought leadership drives perceptions, trust and sales A survey of 3,000+ business executives by Edelman and LinkedIn connected B2B thought leadership to trust and sales.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

“Some of our fellows are working on ideas in retail, cryptocurrency and logistics with the potential to be major businesses – but we also have fellows who are writing novels about tech. My structured sabbatical centered around three focus projects: Writing my first book and launching a pre-order campaign. I write more about that here.

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