Mindful Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2022

by David Hagenbuch - professor of marketing at Messiah University - ​author of Honorable Influence - founder of Mindful Marketing We’ve all said things we later regretted. ” Unfortunately, that’s the image that many people now associate with the luxury brand Balenciaga.

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5W PR

JUNE 16, 2023

Beauty trends come and go, but some viral hairstyles have made a lasting impact in the world of TikTok and beyond. It’s important for brands to know the latest 2023 hair trends in order to use them to their best advantage in marketing strategies.

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Presspage

AUGUST 24, 2023

With an overflow of information vying for the spotlight, brands must adapt their strategies to stand out amidst the noise. Especially when faced with the task of engaging individuals who may not inherently express interest in a particular product, the question arises: how can brands forge lasting relationships with these audiences?

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In a world dominated by social media and viral trends, Santa Claus realized he needed a PR facelift, and he needed it fast! With candy cane pens in hand and tinsel-trimmed laptops at the ready, the PR pros set to work on giving Santa a brand makeover that would make the Sugar Plum Fairy jealous.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 18, 2019

In 2017, my organization, Goodwill Industries International, then a 115-year-old social enterprise; one of the oldest 501 (c)(3) nonprofit brands; the leading workforce provider in North America; and the #1 brand doing the most good by enso and featured in Fast Company Magazine – faced a pretty significant challenge.

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Prohibition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Working with influencers can be a really great way for brands to reach their target audiences, communicate their messages and gain brand awareness. When it goes well, it can be a successful mechanism in driving traffic to your website, increasing direct sales and making more people aware of your brand.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 13, 2016

This is where influencer marketing comes to the rescue. Loosely defined as a marketing strategy involving influencers to impact buyer decisions and boost a brand’s visibility by using their online personality and popularity, influencer marketing has many takers. So, how do you “bell” an influencer for your brand?

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Deirdre Breakenridge

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Those ugly sweaters that you’ve often received as a gift are now considered fashionable during the holidays. Seeing a need for ugly Christmas sweaters, I used my background in internet marketing to confirm there was also an online demand for Christmas sweaters and that’s when Tipsy Elves was started. Shark Tank was awesome.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 15, 2018

First statements say a lot about what a brand stands for, and they reflect on the quality of its leadership. As of this post, it has reclaimed $134B in lost market value. The language fits the Tesla brand: aloof, calculated, and confident. Whether fair or not, the statements come off as consistent with the brand.

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Prohibition

JULY 10, 2019

Some of these came to light by members of the public calling brands out on social media for their slip-ups and others were campaigns by PR and marketing teams that simply did not turn out as planned. 1) A major fashion mishap: H&M’s “Coolest monkey in the jungle”. 3) A sour end for the sweet brand: Cadbury’s treasure hunt.

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Shift Communications

JANUARY 12, 2018

With editorial staffs evolving and new brands popping up every day, the media have a constant barrage of news, trends and pitches coming their way, let’s remind ourselves about the relationship aspect of media relations while the rest of the world attempts autonomy. That said, brands cannot be expected to respond to every issue.

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Rock the Status Quo

AUGUST 15, 2014

It’s a one-way ticket to social media #virality.” To have their own post go viral, even land new business. If Edelman had just quietly pitched media their story ideas and sources for how to grow awareness around mental illness in a sensitive fashion, it would have been perfectly appropriate.

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PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As marketers, we use SEO tactics to ensure our client’s rank highly in the search results but soon, software programmes like the Google Spiders will be outdated and we’ll be planning our campaigns around more intelligent programmes, like virtual assistants. The users then get notified about price changes, sales or brand news.

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Trends How To Retail Google 59

Cision

JULY 20, 2015

According to one expert, word-of-mouth marketing isn’t a meritocracy (not entirely, anyhow). What I want to do in this piece is to use Berger’s word-of-mouth framework to highlight five businesses that have had success leveraging word-of-mouth marketing. Practical value. Want to build word-of-mouth?

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Communications Conversations

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

A “viral” moment, to be clear. And, in a timely fashion. Wouldn’t he be a fun–and timely–spokesperson for the Zillow brand? But I immediately thought this would be fun for a brand that, to date, hasn’t seemed all that progressive. And, in a positive way (for the most part).

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

As I’ve done in recent years, I’ve asked a whole bunch of smart people for their marketing predictions or PR predictions for the next year. And now on with the marketing and PR predictions for 2020. 1) Marketing embraces sustainability. 2) Marketing analytics enable better efficiency. “In 5) Marketers will slow down.

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Konnect Agency

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

With the continuous roll out of new creators and TikTok influencers, the question that frequently arises on client calls within our digital agency is how brands can crack the code to reach a broad audience and convert more of them into sales through the platform. And we can do it for your brand, too – so what are you waiting for?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What started out as a Snapchat-like platform for younger generations of social media influencers and general users for sharing video snippets has grown into an essential platform for marketing and advertising. TikTok is a powerful brand marketing platform. Branded hashtags drive discovery. Branded lenses jump on trends.

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Cision

JUNE 2, 2017

This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. The global digital economy has produced an avalanche of content and the battle for mind and market share is no longer local. See how they market online. Are calls to action part of their marketing tactics?

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5W PR

OCTOBER 21, 2019

When it comes to companies seeking out influencers to bolster a marketing campaign, employing the help of an influencer marketing agency can help amplify the voice of the brand and extend its reach. An influencer marketing agency is dedicated to the connecting of businesses and brands with influencers or viral platforms.

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PRSay

MARCH 11, 2019

This] is the year of power to the people,” says Valerie Di Maria, principal of the communications and marketing firm. The ways companies and leaders behave — or misbehave — have made major headlines in an unprecedented fashion this past year,” they write. Brands are beginning to over-rely on data and measurement.

Trends 151

Trends Communications Employee Enterprise 151

Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 15, 2019

During the last couple of years, several trends have impacted the way businesses carry out social media marketing. Generally speaking, marketers tend to focus on high-quality images and videos, alongside posts that have the potential to go viral. Guest post by Alex Slichnyi. Why is Instagram Stories Feature Important?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For public relations and reputation experts, it’s easy to point out the brands and personalities who mishandled bad news or missed opportunities after public mistakes. Marketers may have differing opinions on Nike’s brand advertising campaign around former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick this year.

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Buzzstream

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

However, by combining the creation of newsworthy content campaigns with the importance of building brand awareness, we are able to gain linked client coverage on these platforms. Building awareness of your brand/products/services and boosting your credibility. Improving their brand awareness and reputation. Supercharging SEO.

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Buzzstream

MAY 19, 2022

I worked at a content marketing agency, Siege Media , for six years, and with every successful and failed campaign, I learned a new lesson. The keyword needs to be relevant to your brand so that the data and story make sense coming from you. (If If you are a dog grooming brand, you shouldn’t be covering politics.).

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Beyond PR

JUNE 2, 2017

This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. The global digital economy has produced an avalanche of content and the battle for mind and market share is no longer local. See how they market online. Are calls to action part of their marketing tactics?

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Real Estate How To Web Case Study 57

Mindful Marketing

AUGUST 9, 2018

by David Hagenbuch , founder of Mindful Marketing & author of Honorable Influence "When it's least expected - you're elected. According to her Twitter page, she a plus-size fashion, lifestyle, and travel blogger , which means her livelihood depends on sharing content on social media. You're the star today. You're on Candid Camera!

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Stephen Waddington

AUGUST 27, 2018

The first model is publicity or press agent, the second is public relations information model, the third asymmetric persuasion, and the final one — the two-way symmetrical model — has become accepted as a formal definition of best practice for communication in Western markets between an organisation and its audiences.

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Norton's Notes

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

He managed to convince me to get off my backside, jump on a plane and go and listen to a few other clever marketing people speak for once. If you want to be successful in the marketing space you have to keep looking out for new innovations in the industry and this is one, albeit one with a new funky name anyway.

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Buzzstream

MARCH 13, 2024

This post will help you understand everything you need about digital PR to decide if it’s right for you and your brand. But the simplest explanation I’ve ever given is that digital PR is a marketing tactic used to earn high authority links from publications that drive rankings and site traffic. What is Digital PR? Product Creation.

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NewsWhip

AUGUST 11, 2021

With this shift, it has become ever more important to understand how narratives are framed online, how that might affect your brands or the wider areas where you are taking a stand, and to have early alerts when narrative threats are emerging. . This same agile philosophy is being adopted by brands too. So it goes. Perhaps so.

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Bad Pitch Blog

JANUARY 22, 2010

And so this will be an unwinnable public fight that an old-fashioned conglomerate will regret. brand from doom. The viralness of some of the current Tonight stunts have been gaining ground and people began to talk.which always leads to an increase on TV and a lot of sponsored Hulu hits. Zucker & Co.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Welcome to your Taylor Swift Master Class in Social Media Marketing! Your teacher today will be America’s #1 Online Brand Strategist, Professor Taylor Swift (Cue: Insane, utterly-abandoned shrieking, evolving into wild explosive screaming and rhythmic chants of, ‘Taylor, We Love You!’) Source: Billboard ).

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Mark My Words

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

He is often classed as a pre-Raphaelite although he was painting his scenes of Arthurian chic long after the brotherhood were fashionable. It shouldn’t surprise us that brands have attempted to cash in on the offence economy. What they need is a viral social campaign that “cuts through” and gets people sharing.

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Flatiron Communications

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The markedly different ways in which today’s consumers are taking their news, entertainment and information have tremendous implications for marketing and PR executives. The agency has worked with roughly 70 brands, including Home Depot, General Electric and Gap Kids.”

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Flatiron Communications

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The markedly different ways in which today’s consumers are taking their news, entertainment and information have tremendous implications for marketing and PR executives. The agency has worked with roughly 70 brands, including Home Depot, General Electric and Gap Kids.”

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

So far, we've seen the development of targeted advertising, big data collection, analytics, and other digital tracking methods for more efficient marketing and information dissemination (called Big Data), all of which have potentially sinister as well as positive uses. Now, businesses use them to market products and services.

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