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What Your PR Agency Won’t Tell You (But Maybe Should)

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

We preach it to our clients and put it in our company handbooks. Negative press or social media backlash can arise unexpectedly, requiring a nimble response and strategic damage control. In PR, as in most businesses, transparency is a good thing. We can influence, not control. It’s not sexy.

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Three FTC Social Media Disclosures You Should Know

5W PR

By: Kelsea, Social Media Director. Social media has grown from a simple place to connect friends and family to a marketplace for brands of all sizes. These partnerships are used to promote brands and their products across all markets and industries. These regulations come with requirements from brands.

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Data-Driven Strategies for Public Relations Professionals

Solo PR Pro

While “data-driven strategies” sounds like something out of the corporate jargon handbook, you may not realize how you can apply it to PR. To understand how this works in the real world, let’s say that you are a PR consultant for a health and wellness brand. Your data shows a particular segment is interested in yoga and meditation.

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Letter from BETT

Stephen Waddington

Community teaching and newsjacking tools, Edelman on trust, putting the paid in PESO, a how-to book for 2019, Amazon data driven brands, Instagram marketing offline, and more. Check out Flipgrid , a free social platform from Microsoft that enables teachers to creates social media communities around lessons and encourage student to share.

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Borrowing Trust: The Surprising New Marketing Role of Citizen Influencers

Cision

This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. . Social media professionals agree. When Altimeter polled social media communicators, they found: 35 percent of social media professionals already have a mature influencer program.

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Managing an Online Reputation – A practical book for dealing with a social media crisis

Norton's Notes

This is my review of a book called Managing Online Reputation: How to Protect Your Company on Social Media which is a book is written by Charlie Powell and produced by Palgrave Pocket Consultants. The furious customer is when a customer gets rather angry and vents his/her fury on social media, in order to get some kind of reaction.

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Amazon case study: Should rank-and-file employees be speaking on behalf of brands?

Communications Conversations

Huge media buzz. Huge legs on social media. And, he goes on to talk about how he never checked with the PR team first and how he knew all about Amazon’s social media guidelines and went ahead with the post anyway. Last Saturday, you may have read the scathing New York Times piece on Amazon’s culture.