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Should Highway Signs be Hilarious?

Mindful Marketing

There’s not much that can be done creatively with boxy LED letters on a black background, but humor is one amendable approach. These two attributes are integral to most successful organizations: It’s very helpful to have individuals and departments that bring different perspectives, including creative vision and risk assessment.

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PR Tips and Hacks for a Small Business

The Proactive Report

In Ries and Trout’s book Positioning, the battle for your mind they said, “PR starts the fire, marketing and advertising fan the flames.” That depends on whether you are a local business or have clients and customers all over. Alignable has local groups you can connect with. Look for local groups on MeetUp.

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Behind the Headlines With Ashley Simmons

Cision

In this interview, Ashley discusses how to best leverage data and analytics, establish specific objectives for your communication strategy and be creative and take risks with your public relations efforts. That said, I think brands can still stand out, but it takes more creativity and getting out of their comfort zones.

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Case Study: Amplify Media Relations with Paid Social Advertising

prTini

That’s where leveraging paid social advertising to amplify and extend the reach of your media coverage comes in. Consider this example: We worked with a local construction company on a PR campaign designed specifically to support their business development efforts around breweries. What does this look like in action?

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How COVID-19 will impact PR practice and skills

Stephen Waddington

Construction, engineering and manufacturing closed down, but technology and infrastructure are booming. Media relations has been impacted by a decline in advertising and the reduced distribution of newsprint. Those insights will lead to better briefs to inform creative and content. Digital media is booming.

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WaddsCon: February wrap-up, March topics and speakers

Stephen Waddington

As long as you are constructive and keep it focused on the impact of leaders’ behaviours, you should be fine. You do need the storytelling, relationship building, creative and analytical skills. Use your Yammer, Slack etc to post internally and express how you feel and offer solutions and suggestions.

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What social media trends do you see in 2019?

Communications Conversations

Yearly budgets for social media advertising continue to climb thanks to advancements in tracking sales and conversions on channels like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. For creative that we’re working on for our spring/summer campaign we’re asking ourselves “how can we re-purpose this for IG stories?”