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8 Surprising Reasons To Raise Your Internal Communications Game

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

It can be easy for a corporate PR team to neglect a critical aspect of business communications — internal PR. In certain cases, high-profile companies take it for granted that employees are corporate cheerleaders, or they may leave the responsibility for employee engagement to HR. 8 reasons to invest in internal PR.

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15 Social Media Trends to Follow in 2019

Critical Mention

Today, nearly 90 percent of companies are using social media marketing and Dreamgrow reports over 60 percent of customers expect companies to offer customer service through their social channels. With the data privacy scandal that rocked Facebook in 2018, transparency became a critical social media trend this year.

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The Comprehensive Marketing Audit: 21 Questions to Guide Strategic Planning

PR 20/20

As Paul Roetzer ( @paulroetzer ) states in Chapter 8 of The Marketing Performance Blueprint : “Every marketing plan should start with an honest internal marketing assessment. These metrics may be both internally facing (like efficiency) and business oriented (like leads closed or the number of campaigns managed). Email specialist.

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15 Up-and-Coming PR and Social Media Marketers to Watch

Communications Conversations

A North Minneapolis native, Tess excelled in her journalism program at Drake University, during which she presided over the Coalition of Black Students and interned in business development with The Integer Group and in marketing/group sales with Iowa Events Center. She was also a nominee for AdFed’s 32 under 32 in 2018.

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M&A: The Top Reasons Why One Company Acquires Another [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

Over the course of my career, I’ve lived through two acquisitions, contributed to internal and external comms for several more, and at different organizations, and even did a divestiture. It later merged with near-peer Crimson Hexagon in 2018 and acquired Qriously , a survey tool, in 2019. The event is free with registration.

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15 Social Media Trends to Follow in 2019

Critical Mention

Today, nearly 90 percent of companies are using social media marketing and Dreamgrow reports over 60 percent of customers expect companies to offer customer service through their social channels. With the data privacy scandal that rocked Facebook in 2018, transparency became a critical social media trend this year.

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Future of PR: 2020 edition

Stephen Waddington

The report provides an international perspective on the challenges facing the PR business. A study called the Velvet Ghetto commissioned by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) first called out the gender pay gap in the PR profession in 1986. ICCO consists of national PR trade associations in 55 countries.