ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 15, 2020

Here are a few ways Instagram can help amplify storytelling for B2B organizations. Consider a weekly or monthly spotlight on key employees on your page. In fact, Stories is particularly well suited for behind-the-scenes videos, customer interviews, or special announcements of interest to heavy users of a business product or service.

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Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 3, 2019

An interview with Maja Pawinska Sims is a rite of passage for anyone in the PR industry. This is an agency model that covers a core group of employees supplemented by senior experts. I caught up with The Holmes Report’s EMEA editor to find out what we can expect for the PR industry in 2020. Where are clients investing their budgets?

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Onclusive

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

From customers to potential investors and employees, the key to reaching your audience is understanding what interests and motivates them. Additionally, board members or investors might recommend people in their networks who would be willing to participate in an interview or offer a third-party opinion. Focus on Your Audience.

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How To Media Training Storytelling Financial 221

Stern + Associates

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Finding Meaning in Work to Reclaim Stolen Focus In “Stolen Focus,” Hari, a gifted storyteller, describes his journey around the world, interviewing leading experts on attention and focus – and the surprising explanations he discovered. “I Attention is deeply connected to meaning.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 18, 2018

In 2016, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook took a controversial stand (on its news site and in TV interviews ) against the U.S. Storytelling brings brands to life. But the storytelling should go beyond the founders and employees. In the B2B sector, Salesforce excels at storytelling and has a team dedicated to it.

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Mindful Marketing

JUNE 15, 2015

AMI also facilitates agency owner peer networks for small to mid sized agencies (advertising, digital, marketing, media and PR) so they can increase their AGI by at least 25% to attract better clients and employees and, best of all, exceed the agency owner’s life/financial goals. So that’s how we approach storytelling in our work as well.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 12, 2018

This can include everything from timely and thorough information downloads on new products, marketing plans, and business goals, to the time commitment by senior executives for preparation and participation in briefings, quarterly meetings, and media interviews. Polish the company story, but don’t lose authenticity.

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Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 3, 2019

An interview with Maja Pawinska Sims is a rite of passage for anyone in the PR industry. This is an agency model that covers a core group of employees supplemented by senior experts. I caught up with The Holmes Report’s EMEA editor to find out what we can expect for the PR industry in 2020. Where are clients investing their budgets?

Interviews 60

Interviews Agency Industry Measurement 60

Cision

APRIL 6, 2016

In this interview, Michael shares his advice for brands looking to break through the noise, stand out and grab their audience’s attention. Many brands are now starting to focus on employee advocacy, whereby they are starting to operationalize a workforce to “participate” and tell the brand story. Employee storytelling.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Video also works well as an internal tool for company announcements or simply to show accessibility, as Intuit CEO Brad Smith does in his “ new employee welcome message.” It’s pure storytelling. Executives can reach out to shareholders or investors through video, as Nestle shows in this message from a 2017 investor seminar.

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MaccaPR

AUGUST 26, 2015

Your brand can share storytelling moments from its company history with your key stakeholders, too. Corporate histories are important to customers, employees, business partners, and community members. We went on to interview Helgeson, his son, his father, a half dozen retired employees and current leadership.

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The Hoffman Agency

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Hoffman Agency is all about the crossroads of storytelling and innovative tech. I fell in love with the campaigns the agency had worked on (check out the Snapchat case study ), the global aspect of the agency, and the inviting company culture that cared for its employees. Honestly, it had everything I felt I needed in a workplace.

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Case Study Storytelling Television Energy 36

PRSay

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We may not think about it that way — we’re simply drafting a memo to employees or writing the president’s message for an annual report. Some executives are eloquent writers and inspiring speakers, comfortable with employees and investors alike. or “Can you tell me about an employee who has made a difference to your customers?”.

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Communications Employee Leadership Writing 148

Solo PR Pro

APRIL 8, 2021

This move would become the catalyst behind the forming of Bernadette Davis Communications , the boutique communications agency she currently owns and operates with the assistance of one other full-time employee and anywhere from eight to 12 contract workers depending on the client load.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

APRIL 29, 2019

This idea reminds me of a clothing retailer, who years ago put up controversial billboards and then an employee intentionally – and surreptitiously – defaced them. My friend, Lou Hoffman calls it the “F word” in storytelling – failure. A voice of reason implies transparency and candor.

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MaccaPR

MARCH 12, 2019

We helped build that brand with a foundation of storytelling, which is a special challenge given that Bind is a B2B company that sells not direct to consumer, but to self-insured employers. What kind of employee flourishes at StoneArch? One StoneArch client mentioned on your website surprised me – Best Buy.

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PR 20/20

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Thought Leadership:70+ interview and speaking requests, earned media placements, and quotes attributed to Marketing AI Institute and its thought leaders. For a deeper look at the Institute’s subscriber base: 39% of subscribers work at companies with 500+ employees. 19% of subscribers work at companies with 10,000+ employees.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

APRIL 23, 2019

Per my colleague Richard Etchison, “an exclusive typically means offering a key tidbit, news item, or interview to a single journalist with the understanding that he or she will be first. See this post for more PR storytelling tips. Exclusive or embargo? The story can then be released to other media after the exclusive runs.”

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How To B2B Pitching Storytelling 149

Onclusive

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Companies often push uphill with their own finite resources to build brand awareness when they could be inspiring an army of community advocates, influencers, employees and customers to authentically participate in creating awareness at scale. Duncan Alney, CEO, Firebelly Marketing. That’s participation marketing.”.

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Presspage

AUGUST 10, 2018

When it comes to Healthcare PR, storytelling is incredibly important. Embrace the power of storytelling. Perhaps the most effective form of content that PR professionals can use to supplement their press release is storytelling. Leverage your Employees. The biggest asset a healthcare organization is its employees.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 30, 2018

No matter where your company is in its relationship with employees, service providers or clients, The Muse has relevant content. Authentic Storytelling Project. ” Finally, writer Christoph Trappe also includes a handy index of social media, content and storytelling terms that are very helpful for clients and agencies.

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PR Job Coach

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Craft a Narrative to Make People Feel Something As Patti and Scott both emphasized, we are all storytellers. It is time to move away from assumptions and explore outside of the norm communicating openly and effectively to get through to the person on the other side of the interview table. The network is the way in.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Most earned media stories (what we call the editorial features and interviews that result from our efforts) take time to germinate, and an off-and-on strategy is a sure momentum-killer. Consider how these DTC (and traditional) companies use storytelling as a powerful PR and marketing weapon. Consider the big picture.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

In a very similar way, the best storytellers in our business know that emotion sells, and the learn to connect with people through storytelling techniques that connect on that level. Seize the bandwagon effect. It’s a widely known secret in PR and media circles that coverage begets coverage.

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Cision

JULY 7, 2016

In this interview, Daniel discusses the process of building your brand, why it’s important to continue asking questions and how PR skills translate to other areas of communication. The creation and refinement of a brand needs to be a deliberate, organic process that significantly incorporates the ideas of employees and evolves naturally.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Sometimes, that means simple tweaks to make a generalization more specific, like when our digital publisher client wanted to share expertise on storytelling in healthcare marketing. Most companies have multiple audiences, from stakeholders like partners and investors, to employees and customers. Or it can be a complete overhaul.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 31, 2018

They knew the press would want fresh faces for interviews, so they organized a deep bench of media-savvy spokespersons and messages for journalists and news crews. Starbucks followed up by announcing it would close 8000 stores on May 29 for a half-day of employee education around racial bias.

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5W PR

JANUARY 31, 2024

Internal Communications: Ensures effective communication within the company, keeping employees informed about company developments and fostering a positive internal culture. PR specialists pitch stories, arrange interviews, and share press releases to secure positive media coverage for the company or its products.

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Technology Product Launch Crisis Management Case Study 78

Sword and the Script

MARCH 3, 2020

The integration means internal communicators can publish content in the SocialChorus Studio, while employees can receive that information wherever they prefer: in Outlook, SharePoint or Teams. b) Getting on the same page about storytelling via MuckRack and Michelle Garrett. Alexa was useful when Peter Shankman built and grew HARO.

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Pitching Instagram Survey Data 78

Ethical Voices

OCTOBER 24, 2022

But really, it’s every time and every day taking a look at those old reporter five Ws and an H and figuring out, yes, this could make a great PR story, but should I ask this person if they want to be interviewed? Should I push my client for them to be interviewed? Should I be pushing this individual to be interviewed?

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 17, 2018

By Tony Cuthbertson In any organisation there are thousands of inspiring day-to-day stories waiting to be discovered in the conversations and interactions between their customers and employees. We do it through a combination in-house developed software and good old-fashioned storytelling and journalistic skills.

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Storytelling Local Community Case Study 60

Stephen Waddington

MARCH 15, 2021

Certainly ask yourself the five questions in my presentation and look within your ranks of employees to see if there is a suitably qualified Black or Asian person ready to be promoted that has been overlooked because “they don’t fit” the usual profile of leadership (essentially being White and sharing your thoughts and behaviours).

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Great, model employee. Employee engagement? ” What community relations folks really want (from a marketing metrics perspective) is: More traffic to key volunteer pages on the corporate site asking employees to volunteer. Of course, you’d have to set up guidelines and parameters with the employees. Good story.

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Solo PR Pro

MAY 21, 2019

Start with your employees, giving them the level of information and training to act like owners and they will take care of your customers and your shareholders. Ensure that your employees can truly represent you in every aspect of your business. If I empower my employees, I might lose control. Improve interviewing.

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Leadership Employee Airlines Construction 55

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Note: see my interview with Tom here – Marketing has Gotten Better as a Profession; Off Script No. Note: see my interview with Sophie here – The Interim CMO as Change Agent; Off Script #19: Sophie Shiatis. Note: see my interview with Ted here – Over-reliance on Marketing Automation Depreciates Leads; Off Script No.

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Shift Communications

APRIL 23, 2015

Interviews, profiles, employee updates, press releases – all are based on the written word. The digital age requires that the communicator be a better storyteller in a variety of media, and that includes visuals. Visuals : Traditionally, communicators have been trained in writing.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 2, 2016

And so it is with great pleasure, I bring you another edition of the Off Script interviews series. That’s why both PR and advertising need strong storytellers and clever marketers.”. There’s a lot to learn from younger employees, especially if they’re the demographic we want to reach. 1) How did you get started in PR? “I’m

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