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What We Can Learn From PR Crises

Critical Mention

Takeaway: Tide did a great job combatting the crisis by using Twitter to reply to people having “trouble” with its products, telling them to contact their doctor or local poison center and also providing the company’s customer service number. Consumers erupted in outrage at the ad on social media, criticizing it as racist.

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

Rock the Status Quo

Brand advocates are most often customers passionate about the brand who support and promote it online because of their loyalty and enthusiasm for the brand. Many consumer bloggers who do product reviews, for example, are brand ambassadors because they are paid in money or product, not unpaid brand advocates. Just in case.

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How to Boost PR Campaigns With Social Data

Beyond PR

And while companies have often focused on customer support or general engagement with consumers as the primary use case for the social channel, the PR professionals have been under-served in terms of knowing which journalists and influencers on social channels matter the most to their campaigns. . About Jason Edelboim.

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LinkedIn Pulse: The Next Content Marketing Must-Have?

MaccaPR

Preceding its $90 million acquisition by LinkedIn back in 2013, Pulse was a news-aggregator app that curated your favorite publications and news sources and presented them in a Flipboard-type manner. Rebranding to “LinkedIn Pulse” in late 2013 , the app has quickly become a key part of making LinkedIn a content marketing machine.

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The power of personalisation and Thomas Cook’s Brochure Star

Norton's Notes

There can be no doubt the big trend in online marketing at the moment seems to be personalisation and nothing seems to get a consumer more involved in a product than when it’s personalised to suit them. During the summers of 2013 and 2014, Coca-cola cans and bottles hit stores nationwide with a slight twist.

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The Latest Insights on Gen Z, Tomorrow’s Target Audience

Contently - Strategy

Later at Industry Preview, Signal CEO Mike Sands posed the idea that tomorrow’s consumers, namely Gen Z and younger, will prefer brands that can recreate one-on-one customer service experiences online. Some Gen Z kids even report checking social media 100 times a day. That means brands have to be cautious.

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26 Thoughtful Marketing Predictions that Could Actually Happen in 2019 Across PR, Content, Digital, Social Media and Customer Success

Sword and the Script

“The cultural divide due to ‘fake news’ and distrust of media will deepen in 2019 forcing marketers and PR to push harder on content distribution with their own consumer channels as the most direct line of communication with the company or client. Consumers trust others of similar ilk. My second prediction: Short. 17: Wendy Zajack.