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Secrets of Building An Irresistible Employer Brand: The Nicole Garrison Interview

MaccaPR

How can you build a powerhouse employer brand that transforms your company into an irresistible “Best Place To Work” magnet? What steps should you take immediately to entice potential employees and retain your current employees —especially during a time when competitors are wooing them with the bait of ever-soaring benefits and salaries?

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Newsjacking: How Brands Can Use Current Events To Make News

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

It involves capitalizing on current events and trending news stories to promote or offer comment from a brand, product, or service. A swift and reactive response to news lets brands insert themselves into ongoing conversations, offering timely and relevant insights. Mishandled timing or execution can damage a brand’s image.

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Breaking: Burrelles to close after 130 years; the venerable newspaper clipping service shutters

Sword and the Script

I have left messages with both companies requesting interviews. Burrelles is an iconic brand in PR. I’ll update this post as I learn more. I encourage the executive team to follow PR 101 advice and come on out and share the story, or risk the details being filled in anyway. This is the end of an era.

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Will brands make the transition to using more authentic, less polished content?

Communications Conversations

If your feed is like most people’s you’ll notice a ton of: Branded graphics – Some brands’ entire feeds are made of up these graphics. Yet, brands continue to use it regularly in their social content. This is what we see in our feeds from brands in 2022, right? That’s a pretty damning stat.

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7 brands experimenting with new social media marketing approaches during COVID-19

Communications Conversations

As the COVID-19 outbreak began last month, I noticed there seemed to be two kinds of brands. But, the point is these seven brands adapted and changed quickly to their new environments and they acted decisively and knowing full-well they were taking a bit of a gamble. It’s been fascinating to watch. Very transparent. Very honest.

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#PRExpanded Guest Post: Socializing Your Brand … What’s That?

Deirdre Breakenridge

Just a few short years ago, brands were pondering whether to give this social media thing a try or not. Plus, people would use this opportunity to backslash brands, right? Second, by putting your brand out there, whether as a business or a personal brand, it opens up tremendous opportunities. It was for the kids.

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Thanksgiving and Black Friday bring Target the most brand coverage in November

NewsWhip

This year, Target CEO Brian Cornell released a statement reflecting on the decision to keep stores closed every Thanksgiving Day, naming employees and their families as the key reason. Disney and Apple are the two top brands being mentioned in articles about the issue. But ultimately, that’s not what captured the most attention.

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