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Become the Pied Piper of Community Building

Waxing UnLyrical

Communities have been around for centuries, however online communities have only been around for a few decades. According to Computerworld the first “online community” came about in 1973 when Talkomatic for the PLATO time-sharing system released a text-based group chat. Let’s get right to it, how to build your brand’s community.

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Brand Ambassadors, Brand Advocates: These Programs Aren’t Easy!

Rock the Status Quo

Don’t Let The Plethora of Blog Posts Fool You It’s easy to tout the benefits of brand advocate programs – of which there are many – but there isn’t enough discussion around just how difficult it is to create and sustain one. It can be an industry, a career field, a product or service or just an idea.

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The Extra Mile PR Strategy: Wow Your Customers

Doctor Spin

A family staying at the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island, Florida, experienced the hotel’s customer service when their son’s beloved stuffed giraffe, Joshie, was accidentally left behind. 2012, May 17). Stuffed giraffe shows what customer service is all about. Ritz-Carlton. link] Nordstrom.

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More on PR2020: social media activism, internal comms resurgence, storytelling and professionalism

Stephen Waddington

Social media activism: brands don’t listen In 2012 Steve Earl and I wrote a book called Brand Anarchy. Any gap between a product or service and the public’s expectation will become a conversation on social media. Brand shaming has become commonplace. It is almost a sport on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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Harnessing the Power of Big Data for Public Relations

Waxing UnLyrical

How can PR professionals harness the power of big data to support customer service, PR and marketing efforts? Waze is the community-driven app that learns from users’ driving mannerisms to provide routing and real-time traffic updates. There is no silver bullet, but we can provide some examples, based on recent experiences.

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20 of the Coolest Marketing Conferences to Attend in 2020

PR 20/20

Marketers will likely gravitate toward tracks including: Advertising and brand experience. You can expect tracks and role-based agendas on customer engagement, account-based marketing, brand and communications, sales enablement, among others. Topically, this event covers a lot of ground. Experiential storytelling.

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How Storytelling Connects Paid, Earned, and Owned Media

Onclusive

In 2012, in response to the Altimeter group’s white paper on “converged media” last summer, Jeremiah Owyang took a stab on his blog at defining the new workflow for paid, earned, owned and shared media. In the meantime, the rise of shared or social media complicated things further. Was it a function of PR? Its own function?