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Know your brand; then craft marketing strategy

Engage PR

But what’s more important is that the plan fits with the brand, tone, culture and other nuances that shape the outside perception of your business. The business started in the north east of Scotland in 2007 and has since taken the UK’s craft beer market by storm, becoming something of an international phenomenon. We take risks.

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Susan Stoga

Solo PR Pro

It was in that role where she had her first experience owning crisis communications for a major brand, when the retailer came under fire on Black Friday by an anti-fur demonstration group. Since then, the firm has withstood the test of time, making it through The Great Recession from 2007 to 2009 and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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PR Rock Stars: Trane’s Heidi McGuire

Communications Conversations

And, it’s served her well–in her 10-plus years with Ingersoll Rand, she’s moved up from communications specialist in 2007 to communications lead for Thermo King, and now, Trane, in the last few years. Many jobs in the comms world require you to manage a broad mix of internal AND external communications.

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The best way to insure your good reputation is to ensure your good reputation

PR in High Definition

Whitney Houston insured her voice, Michael Flatley insured his legs – and America Ferrera insured her smile for $10m in 2007. We’ve all heard about catastrophic events that can seemingly break brands in seconds. You can’t possibly anticipate the reaction of every single employee to a data breach. Is this ridiculous?

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How Elon Musk built global brands with zero marketing

The Hoffman Agency

We live in a world where the success of huge brands is pegged to high-functioning marketing campaigns, well-thought out slogans, and witty, heart-warming advertisements. Again, another organisation would probably have brought up the customer complaint internally, discussed it over weeks, formed a solution to the problem, and implemented it.

Brand 53
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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

Table 1: James Grunig and Todd Hunt’s Four Models of Public Relations (1984) Excellence Theory The so-called Excellence Theory[ii] developed over the next decade as a result of a research programme commissioned by the Research Foundation of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in 1984.

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Financial Services Content Report: Industry Benchmarks & 5 Keys to Success

Contently - Strategy

Brands spend large sums of money on content marketing. The industry benchmark statistics in the first part of the report came from an internal dataset of 86,270 pieces of content across all industries, measured by Contently’s content marketing platform. Focus on employee education and advocacy. Report Methodology.