Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 14, 2017

How do you find a good corporate story? One way to approach it is striving to think differently, aiming to digging a little deeper and for marketing leadership, to consider shifting roles to support the first two ideas. If B2B marketers want to cut through the clutter and stand out, you’ve got to understand the basics of storytelling.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 3, 2019

If a company’s leadership isn’t willing to commit to a PR program, it may be challenged from the start. If leadership insists that only splashy features in Fast Company or The Wall Street Journal will do, it will miss many opportunities. No creative spark . See this earlier post for more on the power of PR creativity.

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PRSay

APRIL 18, 2024

Taylor Swift’s much-anticipated album, The Tortured Poets Department (out April 19), sounds like it should be about a corporate communications team. We are creators, storytellers and writers. I curated 13 key Tay-keaways for comms pros — each paired with an album or song — to inspire your leadership style as well as your playlist.

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Onclusive

MARCH 6, 2019

At the recent Growth PR Conference from AirPR, leadership from E*Trade, Dolby, BitGo, and Bank of the West shared their personal experiences and thoughts on what works… and what doesn’t. I went to Schwab and had responsibility as CMO, which included corporate communications as well as for PR, basically everything but Investor Relations.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Instead, the PR agency or team should work with leadership to commit to a strict definition of the brand voice — and it should come from a place of authenticity. We’ve found success in mini-conferences we call thought leadership panels. This type of creative, highly effective activity makes a splash.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

e) Championing a customer-centric corporate culture. Read more: How Creative, Agile and Metrics can Sing in Marketing Harmony. 13) Storytelling the hottest trend in PR in 2018. Median salaries across corporate, agency and non-profit positions break down as follows: Corporate: $132,000 Agency $88,000 Non-profit: $78,300.

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PRSay

JANUARY 9, 2020

2020 is the perfect time to take a fresh, creative approach to your partnerships. Things to think about How can you leverage organic content (with permission, of course) and empower your everyday fans to continue to share your brand message creatively? Highly-targeted story angles.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 25, 2018

The script runs the gamut of creative and powerful wordplay, including scholarly quotes from the poet Marguerite de Navarre and lots of German and French bons mots. As we have noted , the best way to improve writing is to read a variety of texts, from creative to journalistic. In this case, we add, and watch certain films.

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Ishmael's Corner

MARCH 22, 2015

I’ve highlighted this point because some folks have questioned the value of corporate blogging. We believe that a company blog makes for one of the most effective thought leadership platforms on the planet. For those in communications or marketing who prefer a magic wand, you’re right to take a pass on corporate blogging.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Brands will need to become more human with greater resources dedicated to listening, relationship building, ethics, empathy, creativity, culture and community. Thought Leadership:70+ interview and speaking requests, earned media placements, and quotes attributed to Marketing AI Institute and its thought leaders.

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Ishmael's Corner

MAY 5, 2015

The first pillar comes in the form of the leadership changes and creating a culture of accountability that I’ve already discussed. Every PR company with a pulse touts storytelling expertise, but it tends to be a squishy concept. The second pillar involves differentiating our offering. as well as a distinctive point of view.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 18, 2019

What is for sure is that a solid PR team is versatile and can expertly cover down on a broad number of functions: internal comms, external comms, executive comms, media relations, analyst relations, corporate social responsibility, thought leadership and marcom, and as I’ve long proposed, content marketing, among many others.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Brad Marley , Chief Storyteller, Yelram Media . I recently saw new research showing that brand purpose is even more important to B2B buyers than to B2C customers, which is surprising but probably makes sense given the longer selling cycle and relationship to corporate reputation. PR grows more in demand.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2018

Corporate communications and PR can be a lonely business of sorts. Conducted in February 2018, the online survey solicited the thoughts and opinions of 5,500 JOTW newsletter subscribers, mainly consisting of senior in-house and corporate communications professionals across a variety of industries. Guest Post by Scott Kaminski.

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Cision

JUNE 25, 2015

Report back to leadership. Jennifer Lawhead is the Corporate Communication Manager at TTI Success Insights. With a dual background in journalism and marketing, Jennifer has a penchant for storytelling, especially about the public relations industry, career growth, continuous learning and being a woman in business.

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PR 20/20

JUNE 25, 2019

With intelligent resources focused on operations and a personalized customer journey and operations, brands will be able to dedicate greater resources to creativity, listening, relationship building, culture, and community. Video and creative media. Storytelling with the Cognitive Content Hub™. And I’m not the only one.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

All the while, the PR pro remains out of sight from the public view, instead acting as the connective tissue between the organization and the storytellers. This will inevitably change over time as corporations continue to focus on measuring everything, because you truly can’t manage what you can’t measure (as the adage goes).

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 20, 2019

There she leads a team of “storytellers of SHRM getting audiences to think, feel and behave differently across all channels via multimedia content.”. SHRM would have been a dream client because leadership is innovating across its products, events, member experience and communications, so it is a thrill to be in-house.

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Stephen Waddington

MAY 16, 2019

The wide-ranging discussion covered: how to land your first job in PR; the role of a PR practitioner; the importance of continuous learning; opportunities in the North East versus other areas of the country including London; working for a start up versus a corporate organisation; the importance of mental health and culture.

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PR in High Definition

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For a start, in the corporate world, those long work Zoom calls could become a little more interesting in the metaverse. You could even have a metaverse CEO or leadership team and mould them into whoever you want them to be, regardless of who they really are on the outside.

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Doctor Spin

MAY 30, 2023

The following are some of the most significant learnings from Barnum, viewed through the lens of contemporary management and leadership practices: Mastering public relations. He regularly used innovative and creative advertising techniques to capture the public’s attention. Barnum had a knack for creating buzz. Risk management.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This will contribute to even more noise, and it will make high-quality corporate content both more appreciated and harder to find.”. This type of authentic, transparent storytelling will likely help organizations standout from their competitors, win over customers and investors, and keep regulators in good graces.”. ~

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 10, 2019

Corporate communications departments are taking more work in-house. Last summer, Washington Post Pulitzer-prize-winning columnist Steven Pearlstein lamented about the “ sorry state of corporate media relations ” after a major company declined to produce an executive for an interview for what he described as an easy story.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 3, 2016

Focused on the world of financial and corporate communications, club membership and participation in its SOJC stock index has increased 50% under his leadership. Bobby is poised for a career in corporate communications. Students are recognized for their exemplary leadership, service and academic excellence.

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Onclusive

MARCH 17, 2021

A key point to remember is that PR/Communications mission of corporate reputation encompasses the broadest range of stakeholders of the organization – hence the ability to make the broadest impact for the business with a common platform to influence and inspire mutual understanding between the organization and all its stakeholders.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Tactically, we feel data storytelling is going to be a key pillar in 2024 – so now is a good time to build the infrastructure to be able to pull that data, analyze and present it on a regular and timely basis.” ” ~ Khaner Walker , Senior Director, Corporate Communications, Syneos Health 16. Return of increased PR budgets.”

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PR Job Coach

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

In close to four decades in the communications business, Patti has held senior leadership positions in four different areas of the industry: PR, Advertising Corporate and Start-up. Craft a Narrative to Make People Feel Something As Patti and Scott both emphasized, we are all storytellers. Hitachi, Loral, ASARCO, Gould Inc.,

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 4, 2016

The online corporate newsroom has undergone big shifts in the way it looks and operates in the last 15 years–for sure. Remember when online corporate newsrooms used to consist of a list of news releases and nothing more? Heck, many corporate online newsrooms still DO look like that. And therein lies the problem.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 19, 2018

A new survey of primarily corporate communications professionals identified the hottest trends and tactics in PR – and perhaps those that aren’t so hot too. Respondents said storytelling, content marketing and thought leadership will be more important over the next 12 months. 67% said thought leadership. Click To Tweet.

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Cision

JUNE 1, 2017

This can be found from the smallest agencies to the largest corporations. Getting others excited about moving forward to reach executive level positions in any industry motivates and inspires me to stay creative and open to what’s to come. Good competition helps keep you flexible, nimble and creative.

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 31, 2018

You have the luxury of being more creative because you have more time. Using my storytelling skills that I’ve built up over my 18 year career in radio & TV but in a new way. But now I can marinate a little bit in the project, breath and test my creativity a bit more. Two things: 1) The pace. 2) The unfamiliar territory.

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Our take on PRsay’s blog: PRsay is an excellent resource for those looking for professional development advice or PR leadership tips. Our top picks: If you’re looking for ways to boost your content strategy, this blog post is for you: Creating a Video Storytelling Strategy That Gets Results. Until next time!

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Beyond PR

JUNE 1, 2017

This can be found from the smallest agencies to the largest corporations. Getting others excited about moving forward to reach executive level positions in any industry motivates and inspires me to stay creative and open to what’s to come. Good competition helps keep you flexible, nimble and creative.

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NewsWhip

MAY 12, 2021

Every successful creative campaign is powered by insight. Lauren Powell, Analytics & Social Listening Lead with PepsiCo’s Creators League Studio, joins NewsWhip CEO Paul Quigley for a discussion on using content analytics and social listening to support the creative process. How the in-house creative team collaborates | 5:04-5:26.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 30, 2018

How good it would be if every task could be automated, saving the time of PR professionals for vital tasks such as creative work and decision-making activities? The second probably still feels unnerving, as this is where human insight and emotion is still very important for storytelling and campaign creation.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 22, 2018

What’s changed is that communication, that storytelling used to be about one-third marketing and two-thirds sales; now those shares have flipped. Corporate email systems filter out most externally originated messages, commercial or otherwise. A second constant is messaging. Ad blockers render online promotion invisible.

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Landis PR

JANUARY 3, 2022

ESG issues will be dominating corporate communications in 2022 and beyond.”. PR agencies will be using more and more tools for handling the routines while concentrating on the creative jobs.”. Michael Diegelmann, Founder and CEO, cometis , Wiesbaden, Germany. Sandy Lish, Principal/Co-Founder, Castle , Boston, Massachusetts. “In

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