PR for Anyone

JANUARY 28, 2024

Erica Keswin is a 3x WSJ bestselling author, public speaker, and consultant for various major global brands. You’re Missing Out, Corporate America Women navigating the workplace in their 50s encounter a unique set of challenges distinct from their younger colleagues.

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PR in High Definition

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

But whilst we’re busy rushing to get sales and keep the cash flowing quickly, we could potentially be destroying our need to think creatively about the situation we find ourselves in. Listen to your employees. Explore ways to be creative and innovate. To be ‘too busy to really think’ is dangerous and pivoting is not easy.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 9, 2021

Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. Corporate Communications. As companies grow, corporate communications become more important. Corporate communications regularly involves interaction with senior leaders and HR departments.

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Cision

JUNE 8, 2015

But what one tactic can drive employee engagement and consumer support? The answer is corporate social responsibility (CSR). It’s a broad term referring to the social good your brand does locally, nationally or globally. Align social good with brand values. Find a cause that engages employees and consumers.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

The flipside of earned media is owned media: publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, Medium publication, and the like. Corporate Communications. Corporate communicators regularly work with stakeholders across the organization to develop and distribute pertinent info to employees and key affiliates.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 13, 2015

When it comes to corporate volunteerism and social media, isn’t this what we normally see from brands? Great, model employee. Posts like these are all too common when it comes to corporate volunteerism and social media for big brands. Employee engagement? Enhanced brand reputation? Good story.

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Cision

MAY 31, 2017

And as marketers and storytellers, it’s up to us to not only get our brands in front of consumers but to also pique their interest instantly so they don’t scroll right on past. Upon snapping photos of them, participants were given the option to add a branded filter to their Snapchat photos. Captivate, Then Maintain.

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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. This type of creative, highly effective activity makes a splash. Is it humorous?

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Onclusive

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Here are Onclusive’s predictions for what to expect in 2021: Corporate reputation as a key success metric During this era of disruption and uncertainty, corporate values and brand activism have become more important than ever.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 22, 2017

Some say the goal of a great PR program should be to build brand reputation, while sales and marketing actually drive sales. There are many ways to use PR initiatives to add depth, color, and cohesion to the building blocks of brand identity. Generating credibility for the brand message. Showing a brand’s humanity.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 29, 2019

This isn’t uncommon in the corporate world. As progressed in my career, I began to have a better appreciation for recruiting, HR and the challenge of talent acquisition and employee retention. To that end, here are a few creative PR ideas to help the recruiting shop out. 2) Think creatively: guerilla recruiting tactics.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

It’s not hard to envision the rows of self-checkouts in stores, corporate chatbots, and fleets of driverless trucks, because it’s already happening. Most experts doubt that neural net-powered artificial creativity can ever equal true human creativity. How are its employees treated? What does it value?

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Critical Mention

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Powell Tate partners with organizations across sectors — global corporations, advocacy groups, nonprofits and foundations, coalitions, national trade associations and government agencies. Golin provides effective solutions and reaches diverse global markets to best represent brands. GOLINglobal. Edelman PR. BIGfish Communications.

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The Hoffman Agency

MARCH 11, 2024

A better working atmosphere and more creativity Particularly from the point of view of employee well-being, diversity and inclusion contribute to creating a work environment where employees feel respected, valued and included. Every employee can find their place and develop the skills they are good at.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

PoliteMail was a proud sponsor of Connect 19 — the PRSA Employee Communications Section’s annual conference. Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first” says author and organizational consultant, Simon Sinek. Fortunately, your corporate communications team can kindle that love.

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MaccaPR

AUGUST 26, 2015

Your brand can share storytelling moments from its company history with your key stakeholders, too. Corporate histories are important to customers, employees, business partners, and community members. But, it takes strategic insight and smart planning to communicate a brand’s history well. Legos' Corporate History Video.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

MAY 1, 2017

What started as a social media experiment has quickly become an integral part of the Socialfly brand, company culture and our favorite part of the week! Video content is the future of social media and for brands, businesses or influencers questioning the benefits, we detail five ways going live has improved our agency.

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The Hoffman Agency

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

With 2024 unfolding, the German team at The Hoffman Agency unveil a comprehensive look into the future, presenting a series of predictions for the way brands will engage with their audiences. It motivates employees and managers alike and promotes a healthy and positive workplace culture. The key to this is a strengths-based attitude.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 29, 2020

Today, brand communications is much more of a two-way street. But there are good reasons why brands should stick with PR and marketing as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, even if in a modified way. To be sure, the pandemic has changed everything, including how businesses market and promote their brands. Here’s why.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Year of the employee. 2022 is going to be known as the year of the employee. Now more than ever, brands are understanding the importance of building trust and being transparent with their audiences, not to mention the value of clear communication. But it’s employee retention and engagement that will take priority.

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PRSay

JULY 9, 2021

As changes in the media landscape force brands to tell their stories through digital platforms, the new generation of workers — being tech-savvy, digital natives — might devise novel ways to increase a brand’s share-of-voice in a crowded market. An example that immediately comes to mind involves technology. Photo credit: netflix ].

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Onclusive

JANUARY 31, 2018

Marketing and communication expert and author Andy Cunningham spoke about how to create a company’s positioning and branding as the foundation for success in the New PR. The Yin and Yang of Positioning & Branding. Once you have that rational description, you can put the frosting on the cake and do the branding side.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 24, 2018

The first half of 2018 has seen some remarkable corporate PR maneuvers. In many cases, well-known companies have come up with creative ways to take a stand or respond to a public challenge. Some brands spoke out in response to crises, while others may have created crises by speaking out. Ambien is woke.

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Mindful Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Advertising gaffes, which may reach millions, are much more damaging and difficult to roll back, so why do some of the world’s most creative companies and brightest people continue to make promotional faux pas, and what can be done to avoid them? Fortunately, a personal apology can often atone for such individual indiscretions.

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 29, 2016

If you’ve worked in the Employer Brand-Social space for any length of time, you know, great case studies and good work is hard to come by. If you look around at what most brands are doing on the Employer Brand-Social front, it’s not all that sophisticated. So, from an Employer Brand perspective, this is a challenge.

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Ethical Voices

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Joining me on this week’s episode of EthicalVoices is Cheryll Forsatz , the Vice President of Corporate Communications and Public Relations for Ferrero USA. I am a corporate communications and brand strategist with more than 25 years of experience working with global consumer brands. PR is involved.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

. “An increasing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion — bringing these concepts to life in our corporate cultures, embedding them in our work and embodying them in our responses to challenging, fast-moving events that can impact corporate reputation, brand image, employee engagement, stakeholder trust and marketing outcomes.

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s free or corporate jargon. The other half were either a branded graphic of some sort or a link image to a blog post or other GM online entity. She writes like a human being–not a robotic corporate executive. That’s what connects with employees and prospective employees. It feels authentic.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 8, 2021

From TikTok, LinkedIn and Twitter to Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook – if you’re in marketing, you’re eager to predict how your brand can more effectively use social media in 2021. You’re seeing brands forced to use more user-generated content.” Listen To and Welcome Employees on Social. What about Twitch? LinkedIn video?

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Sword and the Script

OCTOBER 28, 2017

We were a fairly big brand, I was in a divisional office, and the New York office wanted to take a public stance on a local political issue. It’s important to realize this “population” isn’t some abstract audience on a pie chart, but rather it includes half of current employees, prospective talent, customers, and stakeholders.

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Reputation Us

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Horoscopes aside, with the breadth of pressures on companies and their employees, it’s no surprise that more than half of our Eight Reputation Enhancement Actions to Take are people-centric this year. By posing open-ended questions, you can determine what improvements your employees think should be made. < Action 2: Explore Web3.

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 9, 2020

Layoffs are coming–we’re already starting to see them, but my guess is we’ll see a lot more in the creative industry and at the corporate level in the next 2-3 weeks. Brands want to stay quiet and, as a result, they’re pulling back on content. I think brands will devote more of that to community.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When done well, social marketing programs can showcase corporate values, demonstrate commitment to community, and engage consumers, while providing needed resources for a group or cause. employee engagement? Know what all your assets are and work closely with the cause to creatively brainstorm. That’s a mistake.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

That isn’t true; earned media is generated by hard work, research, and creativity. That’s unlikely, because PR is best at building brand visibility and credibility over time. Here’s an exercise for a startup: take the brand name and corporate information out of your press release or media pitch.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

AUGUST 26, 2014

But this direction has kept me flexible and enhanced my creativity by ensuring I do not simply rely on what works in any one industry. While communications may be your forte, with strengths such as writing, creativity, organization and research, your passion might be for something else altogether. and wanted that to be my specialty.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 4, 2018

e) Championing a customer-centric corporate culture. C-level executives at companies with at least 5,000 employees used their personal email 51% of the time, with business emails used the remaining 49%.”. Read more: How Creative, Agile and Metrics can Sing in Marketing Harmony. 16) Creativity as an employable skill.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 20, 2019

We are asking business executives, supervisors, and individual employees to all join in with HR to fix workplace cultures. Employees are a critical piece to any organization’s success and yet one that is often taken for granted, overlooked or shuffled along. When you have engaged employees, you have happy customers.

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