PR for Anyone

JANUARY 28, 2024

In-person connections are still important, and there is value for companies bringing their employees back to the office—but making that commute needs to be worthwhile. Employees of all ages have expressed a desire to not be in the office five days a week. The conversation around productivity has shifted in our post-COVID world.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 13, 2023

How we can be the change As a person of color, I am drawn to companies with a diverse employee base. It’s a PR agency with fewer than 25 employees, and more than a third are people of color. When employees feel represented within a company by their colleagues, they are more likely to feel valued and motivated.

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Employee Community Groups Interviews 156

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 29, 2019

As progressed in my career, I began to have a better appreciation for recruiting, HR and the challenge of talent acquisition and employee retention. To that end, here are a few creative PR ideas to help the recruiting shop out. 2) Think creatively: guerilla recruiting tactics. Thinking Creatively about Recruiting Events.

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Resources Creativity Publicity Local 79

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. This divergence has become increasingly apparent in recent years.

Brand 90

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The Proactive Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

If you were to send some promotional item, like a postcard, or an email, or put up a billboard, etc, that would fall under the umbrella of marketing or advertising. There’s no erasing those negative comments from old employees with an axe to grind and nothing better to do with their time. That falls under the department of sales.

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Digital PR Reputation Employee Energy 246

Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Hunter PR is a wonderful strategic and creative communications partner that helps brands by creating strategic programming, content and relationships that foster consumer attention to brands. Golin’s News section shares recent announcements, expert insights and employee perspectives. With no boundaries, everyone wins. Take risks.

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Public Affairs Creativity Nonprofit Agency 172

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Year of the employee. 2022 is going to be known as the year of the employee. Qualified employees are scarce, and companies recognize that they need to be seen as great places to work and thrive as well as strong brands. But it’s employee retention and engagement that will take priority. Fast-vertising.

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Marketing Content Marketing Social Media Employee 215

Prohibition

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The question remains for brands and content creators around how to make the most of these new AI features to embrace more creativity into comms. LinkedIn explore AI LinkedIn has decided to incorporate AI strategies on its site to improve and streamline hiring and marketing processes for users.

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Stephen Waddington

JUNE 29, 2021

Research and Development tax relief for small and medium-sized enterprises applies to enterprises with less than 500 employees and turnover under €100m or a balance sheet total under €86m. This is likely to be most applicable to agencies in the creative and professional services sector.

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 1, 2020

That’s clear in the findings from the annual marketing and creative salary survey conducted by The Creative Group and parent company Robert Half. About 80% of managers are worried “about retaining valued employees.” One small thing that leaders can do to help hold on to employees is to recognize their work.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Most experts doubt that neural net-powered artificial creativity can ever equal true human creativity. Ravikant, too, believes that automation, and eventually artificial intelligence, will usher in a new era of creativity and inspiration that sounds positively utopian. How are its employees treated? What does it value?

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PR Conversations

JUNE 18, 2014

claimed to be the first US advertising agency (having bought a firm established in 1841 by Volney Palmer ). Ayer are some classic slogans and its landmark art deco building in Philadelphia (now a luxury condominium The Ayer ), after the firm’s remaining assets were bought by the French advertising/PR firm, Publicis Group in 2002.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 19, 2019

It doesn’t compare to paid advertising when it comes to frequency of message, and it will never offer the type of control that paid content will. What we call PR can include paid influencer marketing, content or inbound marketing, social content, and other varieties of paid creative services. Today’s PR is specialized.

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Nonprofit Crisis Management Fashion Advertising 271

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 12, 2018

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. Allow the agency creative freedom. This is good news for clients and PR firms alike.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 20, 2020

Most have learned from early mistakes or half-measures and have designed campaigns that make a positive impact for employees, customers, and communities. Quite a few launched ad campaigns recognizing their own employees. Sure, what helps its advertisers helps Google, but it’s real money where it’s needed. Self-serving?

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Brand Branding Small Business Retail 284

Contently - Strategy

APRIL 19, 2021

The platform isn’t saturated with advertising, but many B2C companies are already active. Based on what I’ve seen, TikTok may not be right for every B2B brand, but if they’re looking for some new and creative opportunities that just make sense , here’s how they can join the platform without ruining it.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 30, 2016

The Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity – the Oscars of the advertising business – was held last week, and apparently it was a big disappointment for the public relations industry, which won fewer awards than in previous years. Cannes used to be called the “Festival of Advertising.”

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Cision

APRIL 21, 2015

No advertising, no paid placement beats the simplicity of word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM). As a society, we’ve moved away from letting advertising dictate our desires. Do each of your employees treat customers with respect? Want to turn employees into brand advocates? Featured Image: Ricky Thakrar ( Creative Commons ).

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Marketing How To Employee Advertising 120

5W PR

APRIL 9, 2019

It can cost money and time to creatively come up with a way to connect. Connecting with consumers offline doesn’t have to entail just another advertising campaign. Traditional Advertising Isn’t Dead. Now, statistics actually show that some forms of traditional advertising are in fact experiencing a resurgence.

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5W PR

AUGUST 22, 2017

Various social platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have allowed brands to reach consumers through engaging content, low-cost advertising and influencer partnerships. Basically, they make sure consumers know when they are being advertised to. . These regulations come with requirements from brands.

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Social Media Guidelines Media Handbook 92

Cision

JANUARY 5, 2016

Gone are the days of pushing your brand’s message to your audience through traditional advertising. Don’t fall back into old advertising habits though. Look at what your employees or clients are doing. Images: Steven Lilley , Quinn Dombrowski ( Creative Commons ). The answer is brand journalism. Think about trends.

Journalism 120

Journalism Brand Branding Storytelling 120

Maxim Behar

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

- The main change in recent years is the complete merger of the three main businesses in public communications - PR, advertising and social media. He believes that advertising will remain number one, thanks to creative solutions, graphic design skills, planning and buying media. Otherwise, you will just advertise an empty space.

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Shift Communications

MAY 10, 2022

Every post on every channel needs amazing creative — vibrant creative, excellent copy and to point to high-quality content. Hesitancy to add TikTok to the marketing mix is understandable, whether because of a lack of creative resources or general strategic approach. By Lisa Zanchi, Director, Digital Marketing.

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Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In an era where consumers are increasingly sceptical of advertising and corporate speak, PR offers a more authentic and credible way to communicate with the public. To get started, you develop a creative concept and a marketing strategy, which you pair up with copywriting and art direction to create your assets.

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Publicity Public Affairs Journalism Corporate 52

Stern + Associates

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

are expected to spend more than $20 billion on social media advertising. Jennifer Zottola For more than 15 years, Jen Zottola has helped bring clients’ stories to life – through media opportunities, digital and marketing content, executive presentations, employee communications and more. In 2021, marketers in the U.S.

Social Media 62

Social Media Strategy Media Nonprofit 62

Sword and the Script

MAY 11, 2019

Because these external award announcements have an effect on employees! 3) Earned media improves advertising effectiveness. It’s not a matter of PR being better than advertising, they each have their own benefits and drawbacks. However, the variation in the advertising scores was only 4 points over the nine months.

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prTini

MARCH 29, 2016

That’s where leveraging paid social advertising to amplify and extend the reach of your media coverage comes in. The post Case Study: Amplify Media Relations with Paid Social Advertising appeared first on prTini. As news consumption continues to change and become more personalized, landing a placement isn’t enough anymore.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

1) “Make sure that employees, customers and the market understand our company, its services and goals.”. 13) “I write and post content for our customers and our employees to teach them about our company, products and vision.”. 15) “Help employees understand what is going on in the company, and help executives talk to employees.”.

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Employee Print Writing Survey 151

Prohibition

MARCH 15, 2023

Video content is a creative and standout way to engage your target audience to highlight key messages and is becoming more and popular with online media outlets – making it a tactic that should be considered for your PR campaign. It only makes sense then, to use this ‘video technology’ to creatively highlight the issue of homophobia.

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Video Case Study Sports Creativity 62

Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Redundancies, business transformation, remote working, and juggling work with homeschooling, has seen many employees swap their agency or in-house jobs for the freelance world or even take career breaks. However, with COVID-19 affecting advertising revenue – in a November report, WARC predicted that 2020 global ad spend would fall 10.2%

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 22, 2017

Earned coverage offers a credibility that can’t be matched by paid media like ads or “owned” content like company blog posts or creative social videos. In fact, employees can be both a rich source of stories and a powerful channel through which to tell them. That is another benefit that PR delivers very well.

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Brand Branding Marketing Wireless 185

Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 15, 2020

Forward-thinking organisations are using new technologies as a means of listening and engaging with employees. Social leaders use platforms and technology to build relationships externally with employees, customers and other stakeholders. In the shift to data driven programmes there’s a danger that we lose sight of creativity.

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Storytelling Social Media Internal International 78

Stuart Bruce

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

New York advertising agency McCann boasts on its website about the awesome creativity of its guerilla campaign that saw it sneak in the middle of the night to drop off without permission the statue of a girl to face up the famous Wall Street charging bull. At last a testosterone-fuelled Wall Street firm was doing the right thing.

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Case Study Crisis Communications Corporate Leadership 99

Doctor Spin

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This includes identifying customer needs, developing products that satisfy those needs, setting prices, determining distribution channels, and promoting the products through various forms of advertising and promotion. While advertising can support such endeavours, it’s all about PR.

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Publicity Marketing eBook Public Affairs 52

Communications Conversations

APRIL 9, 2020

Layoffs are coming–we’re already starting to see them, but my guess is we’ll see a lot more in the creative industry and at the corporate level in the next 2-3 weeks. In big ways (social media advertising inventory and ROI) and in smaller ways (is Zoom now a social media network?).

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Social Media Trends Media LinkedIn 169

Cision

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

.” Neilsen recently conducted a study which found that 90 percent of consumers trust peer recommendations and only 33 percent trust advertisements. Image: TopRank Online Marketing ( Creative Commons ).

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B2B Marketing Content Marketing Technology 120

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Advertising value equivalent (AVE) is at the sharp end of this issue. She believes the same issues apply in advertising and PR. It’s impossible to keep coming up with creative ideas to reach and resonate with audiences who are not represented by a PR team. The issue lies in the inability of PR to achieve its value. What we do 5.

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