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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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 5, 2018

I have been blogging about challenges confronting digital PR and social media marketing. Are the social media waters still safe for marketing? What’s not safe is ignoring social conversations, especially those related to your brand and category. What comes after social media? Absolutely.

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Prohibition

APRIL 7, 2022

With the social media landscape ever-changing, there are always different updates and trends emerging that social media managers need to be mindful of. If you prefer a quick video to learn for the latest social media trends here are the highlights from our latest webinar.

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Cision

OCTOBER 10, 2015

According to a recent Oracle study, 81 percent of Twitter users expect brands to respond to their questions or complaints the same day they tweet. But what happens when brands don’t pay attention to what’s being said about their products and services online? They lose their customers. Happy Campers.

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Critical Mention

APRIL 17, 2019

Today, nearly 90 percent of companies are using social media marketing and Dreamgrow reports over 60 percent of customers expect companies to offer customer service through their social channels. Brand humanization. Not many types of social posts are as successful as online quizzes.

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PR 20/20

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Below is a guest post by Elizabeth Victor, a brand advisor for iSentia. She enjoys sharing tips on media monitoring and analysis. You can find her on Twitter and Google+. As social media has become more and more popular throughout the world, it is important for companies to adopt a new outlook toward customer service.

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Critical Mention

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Social media platforms may have been created for friendly networking, but since then, they’ve evolved into tech hubs where anybody can network with anyone else. So, it’s important for all organizations to acknowledge and react to the impact social media has on consumers. Social Media Improves Customer Service.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 19, 2016

Social media has become a favorite medium for customer service complaints, but is there a way to transform such complaints into good PR for your company? If done well, a frustrated customer could end up singing your company’s praises. Here are five ways to turn social media complaints into positive PR.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

For some people, the thought that you might outsource your social media is blasphemous. After all, social media is an extension of our personal and professional selves. Amazon uses an autoresponder on their @amazonhelp Twitter account to refer people to an actual customer service agent for appropriate support.

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Cision

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Most communications or marketing professionals realize that social media management is difficult to scale without some automated solution. Keeping track of platforms, direct and indirect messages, social care opportunities, and the competition is difficult for nearly any business, and size makes managing these more daunting.

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Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

These are the “Big Four” of the social media marketing world. And, they encompass about 90% of all social media marketing for most companies. In fact, according to a recent UMass-Dartmouth study , 91% of Fortune 500 level companies use Twitter, 89% use Facebook, 63% use Instagram and 98% use LinkedIn.

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Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

TLDR: Brands and customers can’t really be “friends” on social media. That can make the people on the receiving end of social-media marketing feel snared in corporate traps.” That can make the people on the receiving end of social-media marketing feel snared in corporate traps.”

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Landis PR

MARCH 14, 2022

Five Key Steps to Introducing Your Consumer Brand to a New Social Media Platform. In a digital world, use of social media is no longer optional. Having a social media strategy can boost your brand and expand your market, but that doesn’t all happen overnight.

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A company with two plane crashes in the last year asks people to post their bucket list destinations on social media. A social media manager loses their temper in a customer service post on Facebook. Everyone is using social media for marketing today. Facebook isn’t Twitter, right?

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Cision

DECEMBER 1, 2015

How’s your social media strategy looking? You probably schedule your social updates without really looking at all of your updates as a whole. Maybe your Twitter stream has gone off the rails and only includes automatic updates of your blog content. Maximize your efforts by implementing social listening!

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wiredPRworks

MAY 18, 2022

.” In the latest episode of “ Growing Social Now ,” I interviewed Barry about his book, social media, and the challenges small businesses are facing. I remember connecting with Barry via social media and then being surprised when he suggested a face-to-face meetup. Barry Moltz on Twitter.

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 23, 2016

Because this isn’t one of those typical “Twitter is dead” posts. It’s more like “Will Twitter be dead to businesses within 2 years”-type posts. Brands have long (well, as least for the last 7-8 years) relied on Twitter as a customer service tool and a brand management tool.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 15, 2020

Thank you to everyone who sent me feedback on my essay on the future of PR via email or social media. There were some clear misses in my original essay: social media activism, internal communications, storytelling and professionalism in PR. Brand shaming has become commonplace.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

You can’t just spend your way to success in social media advertising. Because your customers and prospective customers get a vote. At first glance it seems great, the brand is seemingly benefiting with some organic lift stemming from its paid efforts. For sure, Twitter is not the real world.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

It seems like as soon as we get used to one change in social media, there’s already another one. And while it might seem easier to bury our heads in the sand, that’s not going to help us leverage social media as a marketing tool. Here are just a few of the latest noteworthy changes to social media.

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Critical Mention

APRIL 17, 2019

Today, nearly 90 percent of companies are using social media marketing and Dreamgrow reports over 60 percent of customers expect companies to offer customer service through their social channels. Brand humanization. Not many types of social posts are as successful as online quizzes.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Reevaluating Twitter. New revelations show that pre-Musk Twitter “shadow banned” conservatives by hiding their posts from other users and placed political and COVID dissenters on a “trends blacklist.” For smaller brands, Twitter’s noisy platform and algorithms that determine what users see often work against their best efforts.

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Prohibition

MARCH 5, 2020

With social media now a well established tool for businesses, and a huge part of day-to-day life for most people, it is more important than ever to ensure your business or brand maintains a presence, keeps up to date with all current trends and utilises them to your advantage. Employee Brand Engagement. Targeted Ads.

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prTini

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As more and more customers turn to Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, and other social channels to ask questions or make complaints, keeping up with customer service is no easy task. Use a Monitoring Hub to Track Social Activity. Use Private Twitter Lists to Track Your Most Loyal Advocates.

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 29, 2019

Last week, I shared my news that I’ll be teaching social media at the University of St. Now, she’s crushing it at Best Buy in social media marketing. So, I asked a few key local leaders for up-and-coming social media or communications superstars they admire. And, they have been for a while now.

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Engage PR

JANUARY 6, 2018

And with social media spend within marketing budgets expected to increase 128% to 21.4% in the next five years (1* Chief Marketing Officers Survey, 2014 ) social activity is becoming more integral to brand perception and business performance.

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Stephen Waddington

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A new Forrester report explores the application of social media listening tools and characterises the market. The promise of the social web is the opportunity for organisations to listen to their audiences or publics and gain insights for business improvement. Most tools are reliant on third-party aggregators such as webhose.io

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Marketwired

JANUARY 26, 2016

I had an interesting customer experience yesterday that reminded me how easy it is to break someone’s trust in a brand. One of my favorite brands is—was—a simplified graphic design program that I even mention in my new book, Above The Noise ( in bookstores January 27 ). I needed help and I needed it fast. Condescending.

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Cision

JULY 6, 2015

Small talk is an essential part of our social interactions. But what about social media? Some social conversations tend to escalate from “ 0 to 100 real quick ” (obligatory Drake reference), and are illustrative (and sometimes entertaining) because they forego small talk altogether. Search for receptive individuals.

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Cision

MAY 30, 2017

This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. . Are you listening—REALLY listening—to your customers, even (perhaps especially) those that are upset? All companies should at a minimum be using a combination of Google alerts and simple social media listening software.

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Polaris

MAY 5, 2015

If your brand targets moms, your social media strategy may need a major overhaul, according to a recent study conducted by Yummy Mummy Club (YMC) in Canada. Brands still think that pushing out stories about how great they are will resonate with moms,” Erica Ehm , the founder of YMC, told me. Brand: Mabel’s Labels.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Can a good story create value for a brand? The reputation the network services and solutions provider Earthlink gained for customer service is a prime example. JC: Storytelling is, in my mind, the essence of brand development. If there’s no story, there’s no brand. If there’s no story, there’s no brand.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Did you know that 53 percent of Americans who follow brands on social are more loyal? This is great news for those who have already developed a successful social strategy. Social has permeated all business operations, from customer service to sales, and must be treated as part of the overall brand strategy.

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5W PR

APRIL 18, 2022

Many companies have realized the power of social media and digital PR reviews to impact their reputation and bottom lines. Instead of leaving consumers to spread the word about a business, top brands have started to actively encourage customers to share their reviews and experiences. Social media platforms.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 1, 2015

About a year ago, I talked about 14 things your CEO should talk about on Twitter. It was part of a larger discussion about CEOs and how they tackle social networks from a content perspective. You see, it’s actually pretty tough to find Fortune 500 CEOs who are active on Twitter these days (I know, surprise surprise, right?).

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Cision

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

My hope is that it may offer some perspective to keep you from coming to the wrong conclusions about the applications of digital and social media to communications and marketing. There is not an all-encompassing “social media” Black Friday 2015 was the most social Black Friday on record.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In the past 12 months digital PR has seen investment in content and paid social media but cuts in SEO and social listening. The good news is that practitioners are firmly embracing social and owned media alongside earned as a means of engagement with an audience or public.

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