Shift Communications

AUGUST 2, 2022

At a time when companies — both B2C and B2B — are being held more accountable for their actions, policies and statements than ever before, it is imperative for us as communicators to be more mindful of the words we choose. Words matter. Sentences sting. Enter DEI language.

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Corporate Real Estate Communications Marketing 88

Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

In a recent post , we showed why using the lowest hourly rates was the absolute worst way to choose a PR agency partner. For a number of reasons, the PR agency with the lowest rates usually ends up costing the client the most – in terms of wasted time, frustration and lackluster results. Why are these clues important?

Automotive 80

Automotive Agency Mobile Trade Shows 80

5W PR

APRIL 26, 2021

However, several tragic 2020 events have accelerated calls for diversity and inclusion (D&I) and with that have also come moves to improve the corporate culture in many organizations. What Makes For Good Corporate Culture? For many observers, good corporate culture is also about employee empowerment and engagement.

Corporate 88

Corporate Employee B2C Internal 88

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

CEOs and business leaders are increasingly recognizing the value of corporate communications; investors say comms can increase company valuations. This week I paused to catch up on reading several other PR and corporate communications surveys that I haven’t had a chance to read yet and summarize them here for you. In-house vs. agency.

Survey 81

Survey Corporate Communications Financial 81

Deirdre Breakenridge

JULY 3, 2015

Most of the work I’ve seen profiled in best practices, case studies, award entries, panel discussions and other channels has been consumer-facing – as in work done by companies or agencies to advance the agenda of a B2C company or a consumer product (Oreo, Dove or Skittles anyone?). But there’s plenty of quality work in the B2B realm as well.

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B2B Social Media Consumer B2C 150

Deirdre Breakenridge

JULY 3, 2015

Most of the work I’ve seen profiled in best practices, case studies, award entries, panel discussions and other channels has been consumer-facing – as in work done by companies or agencies to advance the agenda of a B2C company or a consumer product (Oreo, Dove or Skittles anyone?). But there’s plenty of quality work in the B2B realm as well.

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B2B Social Media Consumer B2C 150

Sword and the Script

APRIL 20, 2021

True thought leadership is hard to achieve, not because it’s hard, but because some in B2B just can’t get out of their own way. She works for a B2B tech company that “doesn’t believe marketing” but she knows they need it desperately. A blog with B2B sales attribution. The text was stiff and corporate. Not in six months.

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B2B Leadership Marketing Blogging 106

Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

Lately, we’ve noticed that a few PR agencies have been trying this pitch to CEOs and CFOs: “Why do you need in-house PR capabilities? Those in-house employees have much deeper knowledge of your company than any outside agency will ever have. We don’t see the in-house staff versus outside agency as an either/or situation.

Agency 89

Agency B2B Internal International 89

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 18, 2023

That’s why some reputation management firms offer PR services and PR agencies often address reputation management. As a B2B tech PR firm with an understanding of how to use strategic public relations to impact brand positioning, our team frequently examines the intersection between PR and reputation management.

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Reputation Crisis Customer Service B2B 333

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 15, 2017

They might be looking to join a large international company as the newest corporate communications hire, or want to break into PR at a nonprofit group. My personal bias is for a small or midsize agency, but it’s really more about the classic agency structure and what it offers for team members. Not necessarily.

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Agency Nonprofit Corporate Training 122

PRSay

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Brands have attempted to adapt their corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts to suit their audiences’ varying opinions on controversial issues. Communications teams should focus on having the right tools to demonstrate the results they achieve, even during tough financial times. CSR stresses quality over quantity.

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Trends Video B2C Measurement 187

Landis PR

OCTOBER 2, 2023

All relationships take effort, and that includes the one between client and communications agency. If both client and agency understand relationships, responsibilities and expectations, it’s usually smooth sailing. The goal is that no one from agency or client side ever has to wonder, “what’s going on this week/month/quarter.”

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Agency Meeting Technology Software 64

Ishmael's Corner

MAY 31, 2020

The post This Experiment Proves SEO Extends the Reach of a Corporate Blog appeared first on Ishmael's Corner ~ Storytelling Techniques For Business Communications. Our push to marry SEO and PR picked up steam seven years ago when Google overhauled its search algorithm. Google used the Hummingbird.more.

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SEO Corporate Blogging Storytelling 152

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 28, 2020

On the agency side, it’s sometimes because the team overpromises in their eagerness to win a new client. Yet corporate PR officers also fall victim to inflated or impractical expectations when their internal clients don’t understand what’s possible. They don’t have to be mutually exclusive, especially in B2B PR. .

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Publicity How To Agency Product Launch 334

Solo PR Pro

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

My mix has always included agency partnerships, but 2020 forced me to get creative and leverage those agency partnerships to stabilize my business. What are agency partnerships? Agency partnerships usually form as a result of traditional advertising and marketing agencies not having PR pros on staff. It was great!

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Agency Creativity Media Relations Nonprofit 76

Sword and the Script

AUGUST 22, 2023

For the vast majority of companies, the only announcement that will top a corporate transaction…is another corporate transaction of greater value (or a terrible crisis). Over my career, I’ve worked on internal and external communications – both on the in-house and agency side – for dozens of corporate transactions.

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Corporate B2B Company Marketing 99

Bianchi Biz Blog

JANUARY 7, 2021

Mark also recognizes that to succeed, Company B’s corporate communication staff needs some focused support – from a PR firm that specializes in the automotive OEM supplier PR sector and can bring automotive experience, insight and contacts, as well as senior strategy and flawless execution. The post Can Your Company Afford a PR Agency?

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Agency Automotive Company Mobile 97

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

As the then director of communications for a B2B software business, my little budget was under constant pressure – and I had a hard time reconciling that cost with the value. Hiring a Solo PR Firm for B2B. The next agency we hired was a solo PR firm specializing in B2B – a one-person shop. 2) Agility of a Small PR Agency.

B2B 60

B2B Corporate Agency Creativity 60

Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It’s a feisty B2B PR agency based in Birmingham founded by Amanda Lowe. Story is a corporate punk. There has in the past, been a feeling that agencies HQ-ed in the regions only service the regions - which has been the source of untold frustration. I’ve joined the management team at Story Comms as a non executive.

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B2B Banking Corporate Crisis 151

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 5, 2021

How can PR agencies keep their clients top-of-mind in a 24-hour media environment? It could essentially leverage one agency’s capability over another’s when seeking new business opportunities. And there are certain B2B tech sectors, like cybersecurity, where reactive media pitching is often a large and important program component.

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Trends Pitching Agency B2B 293

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 14, 2017

How do you find a good corporate story? This question is the B2B marketing equivalent of the Wolf of Wall Street’s challenge to sales: sell me this pen. If B2B marketers want to cut through the clutter and stand out, you’ve got to understand the basics of storytelling. 2) Digging Deeper for a Corporate Narrative.

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Corporate Storytelling B2B Facebook 64

Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

That’s according to the results of a survey of 1,377 bloggers conducted by Orbit Media a web design agency. It’s the fourth consecutive year the agency has conducted the survey. These habits are applicable to corporate blogging where a blog is a central platform in a content marketing strategy. They do this consistently.

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Study B2B Marketing Survey 80

Sword and the Script

MARCH 18, 2017

News and coverage can contribute to a corporate reputation, but it’s rarely the catalyst. This is where corporate leaders get confused about PR. PR isn’t an event, it’s a process that unfolds over time and contributes to a corporate reputation. Research for PR Pros on B2B Messaging, Pitches and Clickbait [UML].

Corporate 65

Corporate Reputation Brand Branding 65

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What you see and what your PR agency sees could diverge — in a good way. A resource for high-level storytelling In technical industry sectors like B2B and ad tech/martech, it’s not always easy for an internal team to recognize the bigger story. Those are all desired outputs of a good PR campaign.

Leadership 182

Leadership Reputation Internal International 182

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Prospective clients often tell us that their agency is hard-working, smart, and collegial, but that they simply don’t prioritize top-tier media coverage. One type of earned media content that is often intrinsic to B2B and political campaigns is the op-ed. Thought leadership content is persuasive.

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SEO Agency Reputation Policies 227

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 21, 2016

Whether you work in B2B tech or consumer public relations , most would agree that the advent of Profnet and HARO as online “connectors” of reporters and good stories has been a boon to the industry. The post A Journalist’s POV: 3 Questions From A PR Agency appeared first on Crenshaw Communications.

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Agency Pitching Print Storytelling 120

Bianchi Biz Blog

MAY 16, 2024

Faces and Markets of PRGN is a series of blog posts in 2024 that puts Public Relations Global Network (PRGN) member agencies and their markets in the spotlight. May: AI EXPO KOREA 2024 AI EXPO KOREA is the best fit B2B marketing solutions expo for enterprises. Consider creating content that aligns with local trends and interests.

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YouTube Marketing Local Chemicals 97

Bianchi Biz Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

But we don’t live … or practice B2B PR … in an ideal world. According to author and B2B sales guru Neil Rackham: “The relationship is the reward for delivering value.” (Hat So, is success in B2B PR and media relations all about RELATIONSHIPS? The best PR agency partners offer you both. They have a relationship.

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Automotive B2B Pitching Agency 78

Prohibition

JUNE 2, 2023

For June, get to know all about B2B communications expert, and passionate cook in his spare time, our Account Manager – Nick. After being introduced to the world of PR at a small, regional agency, I realised just how agile, innovative and adept PR professionals need to be. We’re back this month with another meet the team!

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Meeting B2B Social Media Agency 62

Bianchi Biz Blog

APRIL 14, 2022

Agencies talk a lot about bad clients. And clients often talk about bad agencies. I’d like to believe there are no bad agencies … and no bad clients. So does your agency. And for our agency, the right-fit clients are: Companies who share our mission of helping innovators to make mobility, and the world, better.

Automotive 101

Automotive Mobile Agency B2B 101

Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Faces and Markets of PRGN is a new series of blog posts in 2024 that puts Public Relations Global Network (PRGN) member agencies and their markets in the spotlight. Key expertise of Integrate Communications We have branding, B2B and corporate PR as major expertise in tech, automobile and food industries.

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Marketing Newspapers Print Local 108

Deirdre Breakenridge

MAY 14, 2015

As a veteran of both corporate and agency environments, I know a few things to be true. One of them is that agency people say all the time that they understand a company’s business. And put yourself in the corporate hiring manager’s position – when agencies told me they knew my business, I laughed at them.

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Industry B2B Corporate Agency 150

The Hoffman Agency

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Join leading public relations and communications practitioners from top Bay Area agencies for an immersive panel in DBH 117. In addition to networking with light snacks and refreshments, we will be discussing topics for career readiness, including: Pros and cons between working at an agency, or in-house at a corporation.

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Agency LinkedIn B2B B2C 28

Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2019

In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR firms is being kept inside. It found as the Wall Street Journal reported , “Advertisers with in-house agencies increased to 64% of the survey’s respondents from 42% a decade ago, according to the study.” (By Then the economy changed.

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Agency Trends Marketing Survey 97

Sword and the Script

MARCH 28, 2017

However, for many B2B marketing organizations, obtaining publicly referenceable customers willing to speak to the press is an insurmountable challenge. In others, such interviews are prohibited by a client’s corporate policy in order to prevent the appearance of one brand endorsing another. Build Trust with Content Interviews First.

B2B 60

B2B Blogging How To Media 60

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 12, 2018

But his reputation was mixed; despite his innovative practice of transparency, Lee, like Herb Schmertz 60 years later, was hailed as an innovator but also criticized for working with the “robber baron” corporations of the time. He started the PR agency that still bears his name in 1952. Some things never change.

Corporate 178

Corporate Mobile Energy Public Affairs 178

Communications Conversations

APRIL 6, 2015

Two weeks ago on the Talking Points Podcast , I lauded a local company (Victory Motorcyles) and agency (space150) that recently killed it with a virtual reality execution at a trade show in Chicago. They’re what I would call “experiential marketing” What about using VR for corporate storytelling? Would that have legs?

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Storytelling Corporate Trade Shows Product Launch 60