Shift Communications

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Christmas in July is more than a cute saying, as planning and pitching for the holidays beings in the early summer. Now that we’re getting closer to holiday madness, gift guide pitching is top of mind for agencies with a consumer portfolio. Long lead pitching happens as early as July for gift guides.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 29, 2023

With so many options available to consumers, it is crucial for businesses to stand out and attract attention. When a reputable publication or influencer endorses a product or menu item, it adds a level of legitimacy and reliability, which can greatly influence consumer perception and purchasing decisions.

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Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

This week, we check in with Julie Staadecker , an Account Director on our Boston consumer team. Give us a rundown of what a day in the life is like as the Boston Consumer Team Account Director? The best thing about PR – especially in agency life – is the crazy, fast-paced environment. No pitch topic is off the table.

Agency 60

Agency Apparel Pitching Creativity 60

Prohibition

MAY 13, 2022

From traditional consumer coverage, print to digital and even broadcast coverage – it is all a really powerful way to build brand awareness, present key messages and generate sales for your company. And any good agency will advise as to what is achievable for you. What is media coverage? Setting targets.

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Print Trends Agency Brand 112

The Hoffman Agency

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Changing consumer behavior — where consumers are more selective, value quality and rely heavily on online reviews and ratings to make purchasing decisions — and the need to choose sides in a global context add further complexity, making effective communication strategies crucial for success.

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Local Government Banking Policies 36

Prohibition

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Therefore, having your brands name and messaging communicated positively through earned media coverage in reputable online, print, or broadcast outlets can significantly boost credibility. This is because high quality coverage in legitimate news sources directly assists with developing trust and creating valuable consumer relationships.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Having to switch gears so often was a great prelude to broader agency work where we work on various clients from 3D printing to beer. or (what we particularly like) regular, ongoing consumer and other surveys to produce usable, newsworthy data. Crenshaw Communications recently was named as the agency to represent Wearsafe labs.

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Communications Data Local Survey 253

Cision

MAY 11, 2016

If you aren’t passionate about the product or service you’re pitching, journalists will see right through your pitch. Klick Communications’ campaigns are designed around research and insight into the consumer, rather than focused on one-off media placements. . How can they overcome them? to viral social media campaigns. .

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Television Travel Tourism Pitching 120

Polaris

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The power of sensory traits to affect consumer choice. • Instead of pitching media on the products, we distributed a “creativity kit” for spring break, a time of the year when parents, grandparents, and caregivers are searching for projects to entertain their kids. At times, it’s a matter of linking a brand to a seasonal opportunity.

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Cision

JULY 13, 2016

In this interview, Nick discusses how to approach integrated communication, why print may still have a place in your strategy and how to build relationships with reporters. From my agency days, one of the most frustrating things I’d see clients do is not utilize assets to their fullest potential. the asset for future use.

Print 120

Print Tourism Transportation Film 120

Landis PR

APRIL 12, 2021

The great strength of broadcast is its ability to take news consumers directly to the scene and witness events — a wildfire, a debate, a demonstration, a major speech — as they unfold. Performance isn’t typically an issue in print — using prose to tell a compelling story is. I really don’t have one.

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Meeting Media Print Enterprise 98

Sword and the Script

JULY 7, 2020

New features the company highlighted is personalization – the ability to add the first name of a contact to an email pitch – and more flexibility to update your media list. Consumers are becoming more media savvy and often seek out the details and facts by clicking through links to traditional news media websites.”

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Technology Publicity Software Print 122

5W PR

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

There are both free and paid press release services that will distribute your press release to various news agencies. This works especially well with items that can be consumed in small amounts, such as food, beverages or health supplements. For example, always include details such as dates, locations, and contact information.

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Strategy Product Launch Brand Branding 88

Cision

APRIL 12, 2016

Pushing products in your pitches won’t gain you any media coverage. If you want journalists to respond to your pitches, you need to explain why your news is important and relevant. Adriana Stan, public relations director at W Magazine, says being empathetic to the contacts you are pitching is the key to winning them over.

Fashion 120

Fashion Pitching Journalism Social Media 120

Prakkypedia

AUGUST 11, 2014

And some people make jokes about good old fashioned-printed letters (I’m looking at you, digi folk). So I was fascinated to hear about the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)’s Scam Disruption Project which brings these together, in an effort to “ help protect the Australian community from relationship scammers ”.

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Privacy Banking Print Fashion 108

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Each December public relations agencies spend time crafting pitches and byline articles capturing clients’ takeaways for their particular industry. As well, we conduct quarterly consumer surveys that look at everything from millennial housing fears to consumer shopping habits. 2017 PR Takeaways.

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YouTube Training Video Survey 136

Cision

MAY 4, 2016

Before you pitch a journalist, you must think about how your story adds value for your audience. In short, I will assist CEO Thomas Graham and EVP Angela Dejene in executing our mission and in planning for and managing the growth of the agency. The journalist tells a story for the consumer, voter or investor. Everyone wins.

Newspapers 120

Newspapers Journalism Pitching Report 120

Shift Communications

DECEMBER 15, 2016

From the perspective of the consumer team in the Boston office the answer is a resounding, NO! So when a colleague and I pitched a local McDonald’s news story, little did we know what was to come. On the day of the woman’s retirement party there were four broadcast stations and a number of print/online reporters on-site.

Print 60

Print Media Travel Wireless 60

5W PR

DECEMBER 18, 2019

There are both free and paid press release service that will distribute your press release to various news agencies. This works especially well with items that can be consumed in small amounts, such as food, beverages or health supplements. For example, always include details such as dates, locations and contact information.

Strategy 133

Strategy Marketing Trade Shows Video 133

Barokas

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Black Friday and Cyber Monday Post-Mortems : Black Friday and Cyber Monday provide huge PR opportunities, and not just for consumer-facing companies. Our agency has helped numerous enterprise technology and B2B clients build campaigns around holiday shopping. The post Holiday PR: Too Late to Catch the Polar Express?

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Survey Enterprise Radio Print 60

Cision

JULY 14, 2016

After a short stint at a large NYC agency on its agricultural product PR team, I actually found my true calling by chance when I answered an ad in The New York Times for a job at Spring O’Brien, an agency that specializes in travel and tourism PR. What do you have planned for them? Budget cuts have also been a challenge.

Travel 120

Travel Agriculture Tourism Internal 120

Prohibition

JANUARY 6, 2023

This is backed by the statistics, its estimated that video accounts for over 80% of all consumer traffic – demonstrating the power of video on internet users, as well as the solution it clearly offers marketers. Advertisers spend billions across social media platforms, targetting businesses and consumers alike with their messaging.

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Video Strategy SEO Engineering 62

Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

She and her research team conducted a focus group with 46 participants and also using a panel to survey 1,500 consumers. is $100,000 in 2020; it’s higher for in-house PR and corporate communications roles at $145,500 and lower for PR agencies at $90,000. >>> Can your agency bring big ideas and execute?

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Survey Industry Leadership Study 94

PRSay

AUGUST 12, 2016

For those who work in sports and entertainment PR, there are many areas of our practices we should be evaluating from how we pitch media in the social media era, to crafting captivating press releases, packaging media stories and effectively communicating our messages to the right audiences in real time.

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Storytelling Social Media Sports Strategy 60

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 31, 2017

People often ask how agencies come up with great ideas for public relations campaigns. Agency teams will answer this question differently owing to their unique sector experience and orientation, but there are commonalities. In a recent conversation with agency peers, a dirty little secret was revealed.

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Airlines Exercises Fashion Print 120

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 31, 2023

In March, Meltwater acquired Linkfluence , a French company that uses artificial intelligence to mine social media for consumer insights, for $59 million. Universal Information Systems pitches itself as a “concierge service” for all things media monitoring. million in November of 2021. The company raised $6.2

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Software Case Study Technology Tools 78

Shift Communications

MARCH 4, 2016

We’re hungry to stay updated on the latest trends and breaking stories, never knowing where that next campaign idea or pitch angle will come from. Trades, podcasts, dailies, daytime TV, the myriad cable network shows – it’s nearly impossible to consume it all. What are your favorite ways of consuming media? Meghan Burek.

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Media Google Sports Print 60

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 7, 2019

PR intern’s guide to agency lingo. The PR team might pitch some less tailored info about the company for general brand visibility ahead of a new product announcement or a big funding announcement. Earned media – Interns need to learn this term first, since it’s among the things clients bring on agencies for.

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Agency Internal International Pitching 192

Shift Communications

MARCH 1, 2016

So, a junior PR professional’s day would roughly be e-mail and reading for the first hour, pitch until lunch, writing/admin after lunch. This way, reading is broken up and less time consuming. If a pub isn’t responding to your pitch, think about how your pitch might fit other sections of the publication. Justin Finnegan.

How To 60

How To Media Interviews Pitching 60

Communications Conversations

AUGUST 21, 2018

which involves pitching story ideas like back-to-school and holiday shopping, but also handling stories about incidents in our stores. I get to work with so many different types of media on a daily basis – from tech outlets to both long- and short-lead lifestyle/consumer publications, to national and local news stations.

Sports 113

Sports Retail Local Report 113

Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 22, 2019

over the next year; 40% of budget goes to paid media; 16% of budget goes to print media; 8% of budget goes to paid social media; 6% of budget goes to paid search; 4% of budget goes to display; and. The full report shows some nuance between agency and in-house respondents (graphic and summary by Marketing Charts here and here ).

Marketing 65

Marketing Survey Study B2B 65

Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 13, 2015

Why: “In 2015, consumer expectations are going to continue to rise. Retailers need to look for ways to connect with the increasingly demanding consumer so that they become fans of the brand, instead of simply customers,” says Dave Hochman as he shares six takeaways for the “C-store” industry.

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Web Retail Twitter Print 40

Sword and the Script

APRIL 22, 2017

His words were printed in a piece for The Daily Beast entitled Bad Writing Costs Businesses Billions : “Think about it. You consume reports that don’t make clear what’s happening or what your management should do about it. Research for PR Pros on B2B Messaging, Pitches and Clickbait [UML]. Give our services a try. Talk to Us!

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Beyond PR

APRIL 20, 2016

For public relations campaigns, that has traditionally meant showcasing the number of brand mentions and impressions a particular press release or media relations pitch generated. And you can’t get buy-in unless you can quantify your previous programs’ success. Because of this, you can’t take the quantity of media coverage at face value.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

However, other traditionally print new organizations – notably the Wall Street Journal and USA Today – got into the podcast game far earlier. Avid podcast listeners consume an average of five a week – listening for four hours and 10 minutes (chart nearby used with permission by The Marketing Companion ). Help Humanize Marketing?

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Tools Pinterest Marketing Media 60

Bad Pitch Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Bad pitches are like snowflakes. And our next pitch is in the danger zone as it represents the second time this person has pitched Canuckflack. As a result, he/she might also become the second person outed on the Bad Pitch blog. We usually fillet consumer pitches here. No two suck alike.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2017

They may have more in common with some segments of consumers, but it doesn’t mean that the basics are really different. Agencies know it, but they’re pushed to lower costs by CMOs that want to pretend cheaper is always possible and desirable. Know a PR, marketing or sales leader with compelling ideas fit for print? Far harder.

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Journalism Content Marketing Creativity Leadership 61