ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Earlier this week, we made the case for raising your internal PR game. The technological and social changes over the past few years have both made internal communications more important, and also opened up opportunities to revolutionize it. 5 ways to raise internal PR standards. Internal comms should be easy on the eyes.

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Internal International Employee Mobile 147

Wadds Inc.

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Purposeful Brands tells the story of a business and management strategy that increasingly fills boardroom agendas, defines business success and should be at the forefront of every communicator’s mind. She is now an advisor on branding and purpose, having become disillusioned with a career built on selling.

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Brand Branding Ethics Internal 98

Onclusive

MARCH 11, 2021

There was a time when communication professionals only measured the effectiveness of their media efforts when they absolutely had to (e.g. Below are three reasons measuring your communications efforts should be one of the most important parts of any PR pro’s job. if management was asking them to). But rest assured, those days are over.

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Measurement Analysis Data Blogging 150

Katie Paine's Measurement Blog

JULY 10, 2023

Integrated communications measurement is where comms evaluation and measurement is heading. Not only was she relatively new to measurement, and so had to figure a lot of things out as she went, but she did it for a very, very large organization requiring buy-in from numerous levels of leadership. So, you can do it too.

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Measurement Communications How To Survey 98

Onclusive

AUGUST 10, 2021

Welcome back to our blog series about earned media strategy and measurement! This week, we’re focusing on one of the primary functions of communications and PR—producing impactful content that resonates with your brand’s key audiences. Elizabeth Barrett. VP Research, Gartner. Another effective strategy is localizing your content.

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Strategy Survey Automotive Data 418

Prohibition

AUGUST 3, 2023

With PR, sometimes it can be hard to measure as one of the main things we get asked about is increasing brand awareness. By consistently measuring and evaluating our work, we can gain valuable insights, and make data-driven decisions to be able to demonstrate the value of PR to our clients and stakeholders.

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Measurement Tools Guidelines Social Media 62

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Partnering with a new PR agency is a big investment – of time, resources, and focus. This is an internal question that’s deceptively difficult for some companies. What’s your baseline for measuring success? What do you think of our company or brand? Most businesses are aware of that, and they prepare accordingly.

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Agency Energy Resources Internal 234

Sword and the Script

MARCH 26, 2024

Thought leadership benefits B2B marketing in so many ways – awareness, consideration and even customer retention – but it can have adverse effects when it’s under-resourced and turns out to be light on substance The social media platform LinkedIn and the PR firm Edelman routinely team up to conduct surveys.

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Leadership B2B Study Survey 131

Landis PR

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you can get your planning right today, you’ll have an aligned brand message with business objectives, enhance visibility, and be able to build enduring relationships with your audience. Bonus points if you can make your goals SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.) Now is the time to plan for 2024.

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Strategy Company Communications Construction 59

Cision

MAY 13, 2015

Master PR measurement? What does Nancy have to teach us about PR measurement? Your brand and its PR don’t exist in a vacuum. Your brand and its PR don’t exist in a vacuum. It’s actually two ecosystems, the one internal to your organization and the one external. The same principle applies to PR measurement.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 14, 2021

Communications is a highly strategic function that supports the growth of your entire organization by nurturing and enhancing how your brand is perceived internally and externally. Corporate communications addresses a broad set of internal and external audiences and involves multiple instruments, platforms, and channels.

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Communications Corporate Measurement Reputation 195

Onclusive

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A strong business case can help your proposal stand out amongst many competing priorities within your company and may be the key to securing your brand’s investment in PR. A business case can also help you demonstrate the value of PR and communications for your brand. Which resources will help you address the challenges that you have?

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Onclusive

OCTOBER 28, 2021

While this puts communications and PR front and center as the stewards of corporate reputation, PR pros also have a formidable challenge of monitoring and addressing multiple internal and external influencers that affect their brand perception. Ultimately, ESG is used to measure sustainability and societal impact of an organization.

Corporate 195

Corporate Reputation Analysis Wikipedia 195

Communications Conversations

JUNE 14, 2019

There were four big takeaways: Companies still don’t know where to put social –was split fairly evenly among comms, digital, social media, brand and content. Social teams are under-resourced. and international. We certainly new social teams were under-resourced. 43% also manage global social media across both U.S.

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Resources Social Media Media Measurement 92

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

APRIL 16, 2024

The term “influencer” has become synonymous with consumer brands, lifestyle trends, and social media aesthetics. The effects of business-to-business influencer marketing are more challenging to measure as it predominantly enhances brand awareness and affinity. Authenticity is the currency that builds and sustains trust.

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B2B Marketing Measurement Social Media 94

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 1, 2024

Industry awards are an important part of a PR strategy, especially for B2B brands. And when you’re looking at high-visibility awards that draw entries across multiple industries – such as a Crain’s Best Places to Work or an International Business Awards (the Stevies) – the task of standing out must be taken very seriously.

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Industry Case Study B2B Resources 170

Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 15, 2020

There were some clear misses in my original essay: social media activism, internal communications, storytelling and professionalism in PR. Social media activism: brands don’t listen In 2012 Steve Earl and I wrote a book called Brand Anarchy. Brand shaming has become commonplace. I’ve developed each of these themes below.

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Storytelling Internal International Social Media 78

Onclusive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A strong PR agency that aligns with and understands your business can be an invaluable strategic adviser and resource for your brand in this endeavor. However, not all brand and PR agency relationships are created equal. That said, not every organization should hire a PR agency.

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Agency Strategy Communications How To 195

Presspage

JUNE 23, 2021

Messaging consistency across all brand touchpoints The larger a company is, the tougher it is to keep a consistent story across all brand touchpoints. Internal communication flows It’s important to set up transparent information flows between team members. This will help everyone adopt the talking points agreed upon.

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Communications Measurement Tools Enterprise 210

Beyond PR

JANUARY 30, 2018

When it comes to competing for marketing budget and resources, marketing leaders expect to compete on “a level playing field” and yet that has not been the case for senior PR/comms managers. Cision Impact: True Measurement of Earned Media Value . Turning Point.

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Measurement How To B2C Infographics 75

Ethical Voices

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Joining me on this week’s episode is Rebecca Wilson , the Executive Vice President International for WE Communications International. How do brands balance their commitments to practical short-term issues versus long-term issues? Key findings from the 2022 Brands In Motion Study. It absolutely is.

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Ethics Brand Branding Internal 73

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JANUARY 30, 2024

Boeing: Brand crises abound in January, and perhaps no one knows this better than the world’s largest aerospace company, Boeing. In another incident, an Atlas Air Boeing 747 cargo plane caught fire moments into its flight from Miami International Airport on January 18. We hope you find this beneficial.

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Ethics Crisis Transportation Airlines 97

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Whether a brand needs B2B or B2C PR next year, the steps to manage the process are similar. A good plan starts with a full accounting of the past year’s PR initiatives and their success when measured by established KPIs. It should outline the company’s purpose, measures of success, how its offering is valued, and by whom.

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Exercises Comparison Internal International 136

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The same is true for internal PR or communications teams as they begin a new campaign. It’s the time to understand PR goals as well as business goals, and agree on how success will be measured for the program. At a top PR agency , winning a new client is when the real work starts. On this initial call, the PR team should be a sponge.

How To 203

How To Case Study Meeting Pitching 203

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The same is true for internal PR or communications teams as they begin a new campaign. It’s the time to understand PR goals as well as business goals, and agree on how success will be measured for the program. At a top PR agency , winning a new client is when the real work starts. On this initial call, the PR team should be a sponge.

How To 203

How To Case Study Meeting Pitching 203

PRSay

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Since many of our communications campaigns (and how we measure their success) might cause people to feel more like numbers or objects, what do we have to lose? Creative PR, media and internal communicators are qualified to create campaigns based on acts of kindness; communications that go deeper into the human heart.

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Employee Crisis Reputation Creativity 154

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Most of all, we’re a strategic resource for internal and external clients. Just as the large PR firms cast around for more lucrative and scaleable services to sell, marketers have come to value earned media results for its brand-building and SEO impact. Yet we resist the “publicist” label, and with good reason.

SEO 227

SEO Agency Reputation Policies 227

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

Public relations professionals create and maintain a positive image for their organization, often through the use of marketing, branding, and communication strategies. Internal communications: PR practitioners may also be responsible for communicating with employees and stakeholders within an organization. It’s not a bad take.

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Interviews Publicity Technology Social Media 100

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 29, 2019

The most strategic PR programs work to build the relationships and convey the attributes that lead to measurable business performance and growth. The best plans also start with a thorough brand communications audit that includes insights into customer, channel partner, and employee perceptions of the business or its products.

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Strategy How To Resources Employee 265

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 11, 2020

For B2B clients like those we represent, it can include the topics and suggested resources for bylined articles, blog posts, social media posts, digital video, and longer-form content like white papers, among other elements. A good content calendar is like a roadmap that helps a brand tell its story. Measure performance daily.

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How To Social Media Product Launch Construction 259

Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

COVID-19 has been a significant driver, but media change, a reappraisal of brands, and business performance are also factors. Such discussions also ignore the role of other business functions within the organisation, such as the integration of sales and marketing, or the way that internal communications and human resources collaborate.

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Trends Publicity Marketing Case Study 157

Onclusive

APRIL 12, 2018

She joined UL in 2015 and is responsible for brand and marketing strategy, communications, public relations and crisis management, corporate social responsibility, events, customer experience, digital marketing and social media, as well as the marketing organization at large. It specifically helps bring to the forefront our brand promise.

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Content Marketing Interviews Marketing Leadership 170

Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s not news that social media has taken the business world by storm, changing the way consumers research their purchases and creating an unprecedented opportunity for brands to build one-to-one relationships with their brand’s biggest fans. It’s a primary communications channel both internally and externally.

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Media Relations Newspapers Measurement Social Media 331

Onclusive

JUNE 14, 2017

Brand strategy teams set mandates around key messages by creating a boilerplate, message card, branding guidelines and so forth. Marketing’s job is then to identify key audiences and directly market to them through the lens of the brand. Marketing Goal 2: Better position your brand or product. Magazine, and more.

Marketing 170

Marketing Measurement Trends B2B 170

Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Media monitoring involves systematically tracking and analyzing media content (such as news articles, social media posts, and broadcast segments) related to a specific brand, industry, or topic. Media monitoring tools scan various sources (print, online, social media, TV, radio) for mentions of specific keywords or brands.

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Viral Crisis Communications SEO Reputation 52

Rock the Status Quo

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Perhaps they don’t have an internal brand ambassador program of any kind ( a what? ), and they are terrified at the very THOUGHT of giving employees online freedom and autonomy. Consider ways to expand editorial placements with personal branding campaigns for c-suite leadership and your subject matter experts !

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Corporate Leadership Brand Branding 100

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 15, 2018

Now is an excellent time to review marketing plans and brand goals to make appropriate tweaks. Brands should review creative strategies, new product updates and budgets to ensure the current investment is appropriate to reach PR goals. Or maybe a commentary on millennials for a B2B brand – the possibilities are numerous.

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Analytics Pitching Internal International 130