Ishmael's Corner

AUGUST 24, 2014

As our communication campaigns increasingly address SEO and particularly organic search, thought leadership becomes even more important. Instead, it’s the type of business storytelling that’s useful or informative and ultimately helps people in their jobs. The best business storytelling in today’s world comes from journalists.

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Onclusive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Whether you’re a new PR assistant or the Director of Communications, the core of your job revolves around using news and content to put forth your brand’s desired messaging. Our job descriptions tell us what we’ll be responsible for in a given public relations or communications role, but we rarely reference the J.D.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The value of a strategic PR program isn’t always obvious to an organization’s leadership. While marketing is focused on driving sales, PR is designed to build trust in a brand or company and grow its reputation. Additionally, specialist communicators are adept at spotting and synthesizing trends within a sector or industry.

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5W PR

JULY 15, 2023

In the beauty and wellness industry , corporate communications play a crucial role in shaping brand perception, establishing credibility, and fostering customer trust. The brand message should clearly articulate the brand’s values, mission, and unique selling propositions.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Employer branding is your reputation and image as a place to work. Both directly shape how the public, as well as investors and customers, view the brand. Traditionally the employer story was a slightly adapted version of the company brand story. Proof of Brand Values. Here is why and how to best navigate the year ahead.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

More thought leadership opportunities. Over the past couple of years, many large publications have stopped accepting bylined articles and thought leadership pieces from outside companies. What’s more, it can be amplified through social platforms like LinkedIn, in prospect newsletters, sales presentations, and customer communications.

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The Hoffman Agency

MARCH 21, 2024

Companies looking to capitalize must ride the wave of policy and regulation changes, develop adaptable communications programs and make strategic investments. New leadership in Indonesia offers fresh opportunities for technology companies, but businesses must understand the policy and regulation changes that are coming.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

JULY 18, 2018

I know a lot of professionals who are storytellers. But, here’s a little profile test to see if you’re a modern communicator who shares stories that resonate and create impact with your audiences. In addition, your approach to storytelling is flexible and you easily adapt to a global communications landscape.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 9, 2021

Whether you’re a new PR assistant or the Director of Communications, the core of your job revolves around using news and content to put forth your brand’s desired messaging. Our job descriptions tell us what we’ll be responsible for in a given public relations or communications role, but we rarely reference the J.D.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Good public relations can be an essential way for a brand to stand out from the pack, especially in the B2B/ technology sector. 6 PR tactics to differentiate your brand. A company can set itself apart by speaking in a distinct brand voice. We’ve found success in mini-conferences we call thought leadership panels.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 18, 2018

While top-tier marketing and advertising are valuable, associated PR campaigns can help propel a brand to the next level of emotional attachment. You feel connected to these brands. Some customers are initially attracted to certain brands because they like their ad message. 4 ways PR creates brand attachment.

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Stern + Associates

MARCH 5, 2024

The answers to these and similar questions will breathe life into a key component of your company’s innovation story: why innovation is important to your brand and the company’s purpose, values and business goals. A few questions to consider when identifying your storytellers: What’s your CEO’s version of the story?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A PR relationship may be challenging for brands to manage if they expect to take a hands-off approach and still be successful. They might include a change in brand perception, increased brand visibility, enhanced reputation, or engagement of a new target audience, for example. Set Clear Objectives And KPIs .

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 22, 2021

That means there’s greater potential for B2B brands to reach an engaged audience of business users. For B2B clients Clubhouse can be another social media tool used to drive thought leadership , especially those who are subject-matter experts. Instagram Reels can be used to promote brand awareness and even recruitment.

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PRSay

MAY 13, 2020

But it’s not a commercial for your brand. The gut reaction for many brands when their income is disrupted is to shut down marketing. Reconfiguring your strategy will help better position your brand right now and for the rest of the year. Rely on brand storytelling. It’s the predominant driver in modern marketing.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 28, 2023

Adtech brands have publications like Adweek and AdAge, for example, but there is no equivalent Salesweek or SalesAge. This is what we do at Crenshaw Communications. It tasked our agency with developing a media relations strategy to generate awareness for its brand as a leader in sales enablement.

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Onclusive

MAY 4, 2020

The role of public relations is to positively place a brand into news stories. That is why PR is the one function within the marketing organization that is positioned to step up, take a leadership position and have the greatest impact on company reputation during this period. The modern communicator is not just a great storyteller.

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wiredPRworks

MAY 13, 2022

Listen in as Allan Schoenberg, Chief Communications Officer at Vinson & Elkins, shares lessons from his job as a top communicator and his passion for running to help you enjoy your job more, stress less, and keep running in the race we call social media marketing. Does managing social media sometimes feel like running a marathon?

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Onclusive

JUNE 15, 2022

While many consider communications to be part of marketing, PR has fallen behind in being able to measure and prove its value to key stakeholders. Director, Global Corporate Communications, Mimecast What’s the secret to success? Equilar spends 90% of our marketing and communications efforts on earned media.

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Onclusive

JUNE 15, 2022

While many consider communications to be part of marketing, PR has fallen behind in being able to measure and prove its value to key stakeholders. Director, Global Corporate Communications, Mimecast. This perspective can be helpful for communicators as they articulate the benefits of working together to their marketing colleagues.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

Our job descriptions tells us what we’ll be responsible for in a given public relations or communications role, but we rarely reference the J.D. For the sake of creating a comprehensive list of all the tasks today’s PR and communications teams are responsible for, we’ve compiled a list of 20 responsibilities or areas of focus.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Laughlin, a former PRSSA president, is vice president of global employee communications for Delta Air Lines. During ICON, she talked with PRsay about Delta’s employee-first approach to internal communications and the challenges of reaching deskless employees. What is an “employees first” approach to internal communications?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Brand advocacy will grow. Shortly before the inauguration of the new president, some brands went against convention and waded into political territory. Visual storytelling will be better and easier. If you’ve any doubt about the power of visual storytelling, check out these superb examples by brands large and small.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 29, 2023

While many AI startups are getting “big” ( there are already 13 genAI unicorns , and they’re getting to $1B+ valuations fast), brand awareness is lacking. adults showed: AI PR and marketing opportunities Brand storytelling and PR is one of the most powerful tools a business has. Another 43% were considering it.

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5W PR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Beauty brands face unique challenges and opportunities in a landscape where trends, consumer expectations, and digital platforms play pivotal roles. Brands are leveraging digital channels to connect directly with consumers, share brand stories, and showcase products.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

CEOs and business leaders are increasingly recognizing the value of corporate communications; investors say comms can increase company valuations. This week I paused to catch up on reading several other PR and corporate communications surveys that I haven’t had a chance to read yet and summarize them here for you.

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Onclusive

JUNE 21, 2017

Hosted by Deirdre Breakenridge of Pure Performance Communications , and joined by fellow panelists Shonali Burke and Shannon Furey , the panel covered emerging PR trends including how corporate storytelling has changed in recent years and what PR professionals must learn to sustain their careers. Technology has largely enabled this.”

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 30, 2019

A great PR campaign will obviously build brand visibility. But that awareness may be of the brand involved, or maybe just the problem it addresses. Tactics like content marketing, earned speaking opportunities for C-level executives, and feature articles work together to boost visibility for a brand or situation that the brand solves.

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PRSay

APRIL 23, 2024

Dietrich, CEO and founder of Arment Dietrich, a Chicago-based communications firm, is the author of the 2014 book “Spin Sucks” and the “Spin Sucks” blog. If you’re going to do owned media, it’s about storytelling and creating that brand narrative. It’s really exciting to be a communicator right now.”

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Ishmael's Corner

JUNE 19, 2015

The Art Of Storytelling In Business Communications And Public Relations. Techniques For Effective Business Communications. The post Shaping a Blog Design for Thought Leadership appeared first on Storytelling Techniques For Effective Business Communications. Didn’t happen.

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Communications Conversations

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It takes time to build a brand, a voice, etc. Communication Skills – Social touches to many teams these days (PR, Creative, etc), it’s important to be able to communicate and work as a team even with those not on your team. Proactive communication is just as important as recap communication as well.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Shaw, corporate vice president of communications at Microsoft, during the lunchtime keynote session Monday at the 2019 PRSA International Conference in San Diego. We need to ask ourselves these questions: What are the impacts on brands? There is an opportunity to look to communicators to help digest and understand the information.”.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 24, 2018

In today’s atmosphere of continuous communications from a multitude of channels, PR people (and their marketing peers) must come up with original approaches to storytelling to break through the noise. Creativity helps express company values in a distinct brand voice. Creative PR helps B2B brands be accessible.

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Onclusive

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Communications challenges can halt PR founders before they get started. Initially, a well-known spokesperson (such as a celebrity or influencer) can lend interest and credibility to your brand, but be careful of becoming too reliant on such individuals. We recently collaborated on an in-depth whitepaper produced by Business Wire.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 3, 2019

If a company’s leadership isn’t willing to commit to a PR program, it may be challenged from the start. It may be tempting to think that a great PR program is the magic ingredient for a critical product launch or the sole solution to a decline in brand reputation. And it shouldn’t always be about your brand.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 20, 2019

The PR team or agency’s prime directive is to manage the reputation of the brand – and it does that from many angles. Brand perception audit. All PR tactics serve to build, bolster, or reinvent a company’s brand reputation. The brand perception audit may provide key insight that informs the overall PR strategy.

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Cision

APRIL 21, 2015

It’s a transition to a new way of life, and brands hoping to succeed through content creation need to adapt. On April 29, PR News’ Matthew Schwartz will join Cision’s Heidi Sullivan on “ Film School: How to Use Video for PR ,” a free webinar that will provide the latest video best practices for communicators.

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