The Hoyt Organization

JANUARY 25, 2024

With such rapid market growth comes increased competition, making it crucial for cannabis businesses to have an effective brand strategy. A brand strategy is a long-term plan that outlines specific goals and objectives for a brand and how they will be achieved. Here are some best practices to consider.

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NewsWhip

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It’s easy to get lost in the noise of social media nowadays. With a seemingly endless slew of platforms, daily content calendars filled with scheduled tweets and photos no longer cut it when it comes to brands making an impact. Instead, bite-sized, short-form videos are where brands will see the most engagement.

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Buzzstream

APRIL 25, 2024

Brand mentions are great. At 46:27 in this Google Office Hours episode , John Mueller explains that unlinked brand mentions don’t pass any SEO value. You rely on someone seeing your name, typing in your URL or searching for your brand name, and clicking on your site. But what happens if they don’t link?

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5W PR

JULY 18, 2023

That includes beverage brands. With a well-crafted digital strategy, beverage companies can effectively engage with their target audience, increase brand awareness, and drive sales. Brand identity Before diving into digital marketing, it’s crucial to establish a clear brand identity.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

This means social media posts that include video are granted better reach on the platform. In turn, social media experts have rushed to proclaim brands should be using video to drive better engagement. In fact, engagement on social media has never mattered less for a brand. Two billion?

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Cision

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Social media offers unique marketing and PR opportunities. As much as social media followers love to praise your brand, they won’t hesitate to criticize your actions if they have a good reason. Thus, it has the potential to bring your marketing and branding strategy to its knees in just a few hours.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

If social media were a brand, it’s one that I think most would agree has been tarnished. And it’s not just about Facebook or even social media. Others have come under fire too, for their content and privacy issues, in related areas of online like general Web, Google, and mobile. What do you say?

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Companies are struggling with social media marketing. Social teams are stretched thinner than ever before. Social teams are stretched thinner than ever before. I hear about it from friends who manage social. And I see it in the audits and strategy work I do for brands. You may not hear CMOs admitting this.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Jeff Bezos said that your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room. The first step in boosting your brand is understanding what’s currently out there. This past June, I did a quick Google search for my name and the results were shocking. Perform a digital audit. You’ll thank yourself later.

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Agility PR Solutions

JUNE 28, 2021

Creating a video, optimizing it, and getting it ranked high on Google for any given keyword are the strategies that need to be focused on by marketers. The post 6 marketing strategies to boost your brand on YouTube appeared first on Agility PR Solutions. YouTube is a took which marketers should focus on.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Social media and search engines are riddled with conspiracy theories and misinformation presented as news. Brands like Google, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are doing nothing to prevent it, resulting in a very confusing and convoluted media world. What About Brands? And the worst part? The “4chan” Syndrome.

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Contently - Strategy

MARCH 22, 2022

It seems simple at first—at least that’s what most brands think when it comes to SEO strategy. First, you find the lucrative keywords in your niche through a tool like Ahrefs, and then scan and skim the articles on the first page of Google. 3 ways your brand can level up its SEO strategy. Today that isn’t enough.

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Cision

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Using keywords that will help the right people find your website is essential for every facet of your marketing strategy from search engine optimization to social media to blogging to PR. Having a library ensures that we’re all working together to make our brand better known for a specific set of search terms and keywords.

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Victorious PR

JANUARY 12, 2023

Personal branding is an important key element to anyone’s presence and is here to stay for the long run. But first, what is personal branding? Personal branding is the process of creating a brand identity around a person or business. So, by developing your personal brand, you can be remembered. Builds Trust.

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Onclusive

JUNE 1, 2023

Social media listening is fast becoming an essential part of the PR and Comms toolkit. Forward-thinking brands are already embracing the strategic advantages that social listening tools can offer when it comes to managing brand reputation, crisis detection, and optimising comms strategy.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I have been writing about issues challenging social media and digital communications, and speaking with thought leaders on the topic. In this installment, I interview Frank Strong, Founder & President of Sword & Script Media, LLC. Frank Strong, Founder & President, Sword & Script Media.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 17, 2022

Social media is an increasingly important element in a successful crisis management approach. With the recent increase in the use of social media in crisis situations, organisations across all sectors need to understand the benefits of incorporating it into their crisis plan. What is Crisis Management?

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Contently - Strategy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Every second, more than 40,000 queries hit Google’s search engine. Because independent reviews can come up, it can be very hard—if not impossible—to rank for some commercial keywords relevant to your brand. The post Improve Your Google Ranking with Search Intent & Optimization appeared first on Contently.

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Presspage

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Brand awareness, trust, and relationship building aren't straightforward metrics that are easily measured. This is where Google Analytics can play a role. Google Analytics won’t measure the lifetime value of an earned media. Google Analytics records every source that points someone to your website.

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 20, 2022

Just 14% of social media marketers leverage audio chat rooms like Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces. However, 68% of those who do say it’s the most effective social media strategy they use (stats courtesy of Hubspot ). 3 – Social audio is still new. LinkedIn is just now testing social audio.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Google doesn’t like it when link builders try to game the system, and they regularly take steps to discourage this. Gray hat tactics aren’t explicitly banned by Google but are looked down upon. For instance, this social media statistics post from Oberlo can sometimes be tough to build links to actively.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 8, 2017

Simmering issues of diversity and gender discrimination in the tech industry were spotlighted this week when an internal memo penned by a Google engineer went viral, causing a public relations earthquake for the company. The bottom line, according to Damore, is that Google should stop assuming that gender gaps mean sexism is at work.

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Prohibition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Social media platforms are evolving and changing just as fast as the seasons are changing this year – take a look at our latest updates round-up: Instagram launches reminder story ads Meta recently announced that reminder ads, which update users about upcoming events, can now be implemented within Instagram stories.

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Cision

JULY 12, 2017

Believe it or not, there are a variety of digital branding and engagement tactics you can use other than a post’s headline. Appropriately Descriptive and Branded Meta Descriptions. For example, check out all the information Google is able to pull up about IBM. You can learn more about Kayla and her brands here.

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Shift Communications

MAY 10, 2022

Brands today are built on social, but social media marketing has never been more cut-throat. In our new blog series, we talk what’s working (and not) across key social channels. It’s where social media marketing and SEO truly overlap. By Lisa Zanchi, Director, Digital Marketing.

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Prohibition

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Over the past few years, digital PR has become significantly more important for brands and now goes way beyond ‘building links’ It includes increased brand awareness, brand positioning, SEO ranking, marketing share, share of voice, social media performance, organic traffic, sales and more – all encompassed in one.

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The Proactive Report

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Back in the 1980s research showed that when someone had a bad experience with your brand they were likely to tell 35 people. WSJ is promoting the article with a Google ad on the brand search for Morningstar. When you see an attack on your brand you have to take fast and effective action. Tired Awake Young Man.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 22, 2017

Some say the goal of a great PR program should be to build brand reputation, while sales and marketing actually drive sales. A strong public relations program lays the groundwork for the marketing that comes later, conditioning prospective buyers for sales messages conveyed through paid media, email marketing, or even price promotions.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Google Perspectives is bringing a fresh new angle to mobile search results. The new feature is part of Google’s ongoing efforts to shift its search algorithm away from a strict focus on keywords and toward a more nuanced understanding of search intent. Wait, What Is Google Perspectives? Not exactly.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Among PR teams, LinkedIn is the go-to social media platform for B2B executives for driving positive visibility and thought leadership. Your LinkedIn profile is representative of your brand. It may be time to review and optimize your profile to ensure that it’s presenting you and your brand in the best way.

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Onclusive

JUNE 29, 2018

This month, AirPR hosted the webinar “How to Protect Your Brand in a PR Crisis.” From Facebook to Starbucks, no brand is safe from a communications crisis. How and when your brand responds to the press is crucial to saving your brand’s reputation. How crisis communications has changed.

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ReimaginePR

AUGUST 29, 2016

When it comes to generating leads, creating a community, and interacting with your customers, nothing tops social media. Social media is the perfect way to build exposure for your brand and increase traffic to your website, but how do you do that? Here’s a handy social media marketing checklist.

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MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

“We don’t want brands talking at us as if we are dollar signs,” warns Kevan Lee, director of marketing for the social media publishing company Buffer. Our agency has seen that voice styles for branded social media accounts generally fall into two categories, which we refer to as “informational” and “conversational.”.

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Critical Mention

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

If there’s one thing prosperous organizations have in common, it’s successful brand promotion. . With that in mind, we advise you to take a look at your brand’s promotional tactics. If you’re not sure which cracks to fill in when promoting your company, read on and see our top ways you can easily promote your brand.

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Prohibition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Wondering how to make your social media ads work? The feature of the update that made the biggest impact on social media advertising was the ‘accept tracking’ pop-up. update, all apps could track users data freely – similar to how the Cookie system works on Google. We hear you. The trouble is, you’re not alone.

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Contently - Strategy

MAY 13, 2024

Google has reportedly been rolling out this shift for years. But in January 2024, Google finally rolled out a new feature— Tracking Protection —that could signal the end of the third-party cookie as we know it. Google itself has announced it does not plan build “alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse the web.”

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 18, 2023

Holidays can bring a powerful opportunity for PR teams to elevate the brands they represent and engage with key audiences. By recognizing potential pitfalls and using a strategic approach, any PR team can elevate their campaigns, amplify brand visibility, and generate tangible earned media results throughout the calendar year.

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