Stuart Bruce

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

New York advertising agency McCann boasts on its website about the awesome creativity of its guerilla campaign that saw it sneak in the middle of the night to drop off without permission the statue of a girl to face up the famous Wall Street charging bull. Real corporate social responsibility is behaving in a social responsible way.

Case Study 99

Case Study Crisis Communications Corporate Leadership 99

Solo PR Pro

JANUARY 18, 2022

Shirley graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in public relations and a Master’s degree from Seton Hall in corporate and public communications. She worked in a few boutique PR agencies before moving to Chicago where she landed a job in the research department at the Oprah Winfrey Show at its peak.

Meeting 107

Meeting Pharmaceuticals Healthcare Pitching 107

Solo PR Pro

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The same comparison is true of a big PR/Communications agency vs a boutique or solo practitioner. Identify the strong communications professionals from the weak. Or you may choose a small boutique or solo-shop lawyer who built her experience at a big firm before going out on her own where she spends one-on-one time with clients.

Communications 99

Communications Comparison Exercises Interviews 99

Cision

JUNE 15, 2017

Hispanic public relations professionals, I’m excited to work with this year’s diverse volunteer board representing corporate, agency, consultants, and media entities, to help cultivate our future leaders and propel our industry. What are some of the key components of a successful strategic communication strategy?

Automotive 245

Automotive Resources Strategy Consumer 245

Prohibition

DECEMBER 17, 2021

When a crisis hits the news, we are reminded of a valuable lesson: that companies and businesses often have to act fast in order to prevent further damage from taking place. Crisis communications is an important aspect to tackle as a business owner. This guide is written to assist in every aspect of crisis communication.

Crisis Communications 62

Crisis Communications Crisis Communications Crisis Management 62

Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 12, 2018

If I have learned one thing in the process of building brands for multinational corporations and my own company, it is that the key to success is simplicity. When I started my first communications agency, people asked me for my “elevator speech.” Image: Bess-Hamiti via Pixabay, Creative Commons License CC0.

Brand 74

Brand Branding Banking Financial 74

MaccaPR

JANUARY 17, 2017

Now that 2016 – our Minneapolis PR agency's 20th Anniversary Year – has rocketed to a close, join us for a tour of the most popular MaccaPR blog posts of the past 12 months. with insider advice from pros at Life Time Fitness, Kuno Creative, Fast Horse, Honeywell and crisis experts Jon Austin and Jim Lukaszewski.

Crisis 48

Crisis Local Blogging Creativity 48

Communications Conversations

AUGUST 21, 2018

We’re also a fairly small team (about 12 on the external communications side), so we have exposure to a lot of different experiences – including crises. Before joining BBY, you worked at four separate PR agencies. How did that agency experience prepare you for your role in corporate PR?

Sports 113

Sports Retail Local Report 113

Maxim Behar

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Many of the people running the world’s biggest agencies are almost invisible on the global stage. This is what I can see every time when I visit your great agency in Sofia. And I want to say that you are one of the most creative, one of the most energetic person, PR person, I’ve met in my life, and I’ve met you several times.

Energy 52

Energy Groups Internal International 52

Doctor Spin

MAY 21, 2023

Are you considering hiring a public relations agency? Collaborating with a great PR agency could be your secret weapon. many different types of PR agencies, let me give you the basic rundown on how to get it right. How To Work With PR Agencies II. The Benefits of a Public Relations Agency III. Retainer PR agency.

Agency 52

Agency Publicity Public Affairs Crisis Communications 52

Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

You can have the best research, personas, targeting, messages and creative – and still miss the mark. To their credit, the team behind @ATTCares is making an effort to respond to some of the criticism, but the effort is robotic and surely hamstrung by corporate rules. Looking for an agency partner that can both bring creative ideas.

Advertising 60

Advertising Advertising Social Media Twitter 60

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Our new owners immediately began to eliminate redundancies, as they say in corporate M&A. One of my first pieces that got real traffic was a crisis case study from my former employer, which coincidentally was about dealing with a negative blogger. A half year later my employer was acquired. And it’s about time.

Blogging 73

Blogging B2B Content Marketing Trade Shows 73

Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It’s impossible to keep coming up with creative ideas to reach and resonate with audiences who are not represented by a PR team. BME PR Pros is a community created by Elizabeth Bananuka that promotes black, Asian and ethnic minority diversity in the creative industries. Progress is slow. PR can be a stressful occupation.

Government 103

Government Education Print Ethics 103

MaccaPR

OCTOBER 28, 2014

While on the road in Boston for his Mastermind series, his workshop for business leaders to take their companies to the next level, the MaccaPR blog had a chance to pick his brain on the topics of PR stunts, evolving media relations, NFL crisis communications and social media communities. A speed round of PR creativity!

Interviews 54

Interviews Financial Social Media Crisis 54

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Initiated by our brand team and creative agency Clemenger BBDO , we all worked together to develop a coordinated approach across all of our channels, including social media. We were approaching customer communications from a new and very different perspective. The Break-Up campaign was very much a collaborative effort.

Publicity 87

Publicity Banking YouTube Social Media 87

Landis PR

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Note: This is a reposted blog by our Public Relations Global Network Partner, Amanda Hill – Three Box Strategic Communications. For the original blog, please visit here. Photo courtesy of Pixabay Your audience’s attention is more fragmented than ever. We used to target seven touchpoints to reach the customer – now, it takes eight or nine.

Conference 59

Conference Consumer Social Media Google 59

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This year, we saw in-house teams get downsized and agency budgets get reduced. High demand for experienced communicators “Corporate communications professionals will continue to advance into top organizational leadership roles as their unrivaled combination of business strategy and stakeholder insight continues to become more essential.

Writing 194

Writing Communications Marketing B2B 194

Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 15, 2016

blog posts, maybe even building to a blog community). I bet you could come up with some very creative ideas – those are just a few basic ideas as an example. If you have an archaic approval system within your company (or in your agency-brand communications), these ideas might be DOA. tweets, Instagram posts, etc.).

Marketing 40

Marketing Guidelines Banking Social Media 40

Sword and the Script

JUNE 25, 2019

This goes beyond crisis communications. So, I thought was interesting to see an experienced marketing and communications leader from the cybersecurity community, categorized the notion of brand under risk. 3) You’ve worked both on the agency and the client side in PR.

Brand 109

Brand Branding Reputation Corporate 109

Shift Communications

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Of the many things that play into a brand’s reputation, there are a few that you have control over: customer service, your online presence, and corporate social responsibility. Do good for your community. Get creative and get involved! Being socially responsible is something that every company and human should work toward.

Reputation 137

Reputation Brand Branding Customer Service 137

Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

With all it encompasses – media relations, reputation management, crisis communications, content development, social media management, influencer marketing – and the list goes on – it’s endlessly fascinating. You can work with organizations of different sizes from startups to nonprofits to agencies to large corporations.

Publicity 125

Publicity Storytelling Nonprofit Creativity 125

MaccaPR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

To start, the launch of 'Fearless Girl' by agency McCann New York for its financial client, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), generated 4.6 By those metrics, 'Fearless Girl's creative idea was impeccable, its timing was beautiful and the location was spot on.

Marketing 76

Marketing Consumer Measurement Viral 76

Cision

JULY 5, 2016

If it’s to drive new donations by getting new people exposed to your brand in a creative way as the ALS foundation did incredibly well with its Ice Bucket Challenge, then yes, that was a great tactic. Having a social media initiative go viral is not a good goal – what is the intended net result?

Nonprofit 227

Nonprofit Crisis Viral Groups 227

Prakkypedia

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Creativity and lateral thinking, particularly if they work for clients from a variety of sectors who demand different approaches, varying content styles and adaptability to different audiences. Organisations often hire a PR consultant because there are some corporate communications skills lacking in-house. A speciality.

Internal 60

Internal International Crisis Communications Employee 60

Landis PR

JULY 31, 2023

Sometimes all it takes is a single word or idea to get the creative juices flowing. Linda explained that, although tools like PressPal.Ai or ChatGPT won’t give you copy that’s ready to publish, the starter text can make a great springboard for the final product.

Communications 97

Communications Marketing Pitching Technology 97

Sword and the Script

JANUARY 12, 2016

Ownership is a strong word in the high-stakes game of corporate social media turf wars – yet consensus increasingly points to PR as primary proponents. A recent survey by the employment agency, The Creative Group , says corporate executives are increasingly inclined to pin the communications shop with such responsibility.

Survey 60

Survey Corporate Social Media Media 60

MaccaPR

AUGUST 8, 2018

billion Papa John’s – a company whose logo featured Schnatter’s face , rather than a mouth-watering pizza, as its core brand image – used an ugly racial slur during a training call with its agency Laundry Service last May. The agency resigned the account – kudos to them – but it looks to me like someone then outed Schnatter.

Crisis 63

Crisis Marketing Training Employee 63

Cision

APRIL 5, 2017

Reported by Wendy Glavin, CEO & Founder, Wendy Glavin Agency and powered by CommPRO. Corporate citizens need to be the change they want to see. Richard Levick: On the crisis side, we are in a technology revolution which is much more complex. There is a new creativity in brand journalism but the feel is brand advertising.

Report 225

Report Media Advertising Advertising 225