ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Crenshaw Communications, an award-winning B2B PR firm representing leading ad tech brands, recently welcomed Patrice Gamble as PR account director and Anna Julow Roolf as chief of staff. Anna brings over a decade of experience in the B2B PR industry, including leadership roles in agency and SaaS startup environments.

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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. Using PR in your marketing mix helps manage your overall brand sentiment with continuous storytelling, which has an added bonus of improving your search rankings.

Marketing 195

Marketing Measurement Advertising Advertising 195

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. Generating brand awareness. Integrating PR and marketing. And even when they do come together, poor alignment and working in silos are not surprising without the proper integration playbook.

Marketing 195

Marketing Measurement Advertising Advertising 195

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 24, 2022

We’ve toiled to measure the impact of strategic public relations, and to prove its outcomes are worth the investment. The fruits of a quality PR campaign aren’t always easily measurable or even obvious, but we’ve made great strides in demonstrating the power of good PR.

Policies 309

Policies Creativity Reputation Groups 309

Cision

OCTOBER 8, 2015

When my friends at Cision suggested we publish a second Social Business Journal , we considered several topics. In Social Business Journal Volume 4, we showcase five unique brands from diverse industries and customer segments, showcasing how they are succeeding with social media marketing. Enterprise Social Business Strategy.

Social Media 120

Social Media Brand Branding Airlines 120

Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The public values journalism, and people are moving to media channels they trust. PR practitioners understand that a brand or personal reputation built through bylined content, executive speeches, legitimate user reviews and media profiles will earn the credibility that comes from implied endorsement by recognized third parties.

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Mobile SEO Reputation Web 100

Buchanan PR

MAY 3, 2024

Branded content. While a reporter may write a feature about a brand, in most cases, a reporter isn’t going to be writing a fully promotional post about a company. Others will actually list the brand itself as the author. Forbes , The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal – everyone is doing it. Paid content.

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Writing Journalism Examples Advertising 70

5W PR

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

They found that the average engagement rate for brands increased 6.39% in 2020, It was 1.16% in 2020 compared to 1.08% the year before. An interesting discovery was that in 2020, brands posted 36% more content on Twitter than they did on Facebook and Instagram. The post Social Media Benchmarks – How Does the Brand Stack Up?

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Social Media Healthcare Brand Branding 88

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. A subset of corporate communications work, developing, documenting, and disseminating overarching corporate messaging is key to building a strong brand with a consistent message.

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Media Training Crisis Communications Conference Training 397

Onclusive

DECEMBER 6, 2019

PRNEWS Crisis and Measurement Summit. Spend two days mastering the latest and greatest in Communications Measurement. Tracks like Media & Journalism and Professional Development help savvy marketers to connect with other pros and take advantage of tech. . Dates: Feb 25 – 26, 2020. Location: Miami, FL. PRWeek Awards.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 22, 2019

The good news is that the public seems to value the role of journalism, and people are moving to media channels they trust. Anyone who has managed a content marketing program understands high-quality, “evergreen” content can live for years, pushing up page rank and attracting traffic for a brand or business.

Mobile 244

Mobile SEO Web Journalism 244

The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

News outlets mostly measure the wrong things,” writes Tom Rosenstiel, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and Executive Director of API. PR lesson: If your client or brand is a major enterprise, look for newsworthy topics to pitch to the media. She will answer questions about PR measurement.

Analytics 100

Analytics Digital PR Measurement Enterprise 100

Doctor Spin

JANUARY 2, 2024

Brand identity and brand image are essential ingredients of strong brands, and congruence between the two can enhance brand loyalty and adapt to changing communication environments.” Source: Journal of Brand Management 2 Nandan, S. Journal of Brand Management, 12, 264–278. Measure and adapt.

Strategy 52

Strategy eBook Journalism Resources 52

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

MARCH 5, 2024

And despite digital and legacy media outlets shuttering or laying off, there is a slew of independent, niche and grant-funded newsrooms starting up or getting help from organizations like Press Forward, Local Media Foundation, News/Media Alliance, MacArthur Foundation, Knight Foundation, the American Journalism Project and others.

Media 97

Media Nonprofit Pitching Analytics 97

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

To get there, PR teams must have a deep understanding of business objectives, the target audience for the brand or message, and the best ways to reach them. We need to be able to use social media platforms to reach and engage curated audiences, as well as measure the success of our campaigns. But there’s no need to fear data!

Analytics 170

Analytics Tools Social Media Trends 170

Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

This is high, high quality brand storytelling folks. Microsoft may have figured out the key to fantastic brand storytelling–and I think it goes something like this… Your employees = personal stories. Many brands write these kinds of executive and employee stories. Forget about the brand for a moment.

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Storytelling Web Case Study Brand 165

The Proactive Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

News outlets mostly measure the wrong things,” writes Tom Rosenstiel, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and Executive Director of API. PR lesson: If your client or brand is a major enterprise, look for newsworthy topics to pitch to the media. Currently only 1% of news content is about major enterprise.

Analytics 100

Analytics Digital PR Measurement Enterprise 100

Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Brand journalism is seldom done well by B2B organisations. Brand journalism is a form of content marketing whereby an organisation reports on its business, people, events and industry news. This isn’t journalism in the traditional sense. Education and information are important values of brand journalism.

B2B 88

B2B Journalism Case Study Storytelling 88

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 24, 2018

The public is increasingly skeptical of our institutions, but despite the disruption of traditional media business, journalism still matters. In fact, a new study on public trust in media shows that while trust in media platforms where we seek news is down over last year, trust in journalism is actually on the rise.

Journalism 185

Journalism Advertising Advertising SEO 185

Mindful Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2016

So how can you, as a client or brand looking to work with or hire a PR executive, determine whether or not the candidate’s connections will be valuable to you? Measure results. If a PR agency claims that their connections will help get you in to USA Today, CNN and the Wall Street Journal , that’s great.

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Measurement LinkedIn Storytelling Meeting 62

Onclusive

JANUARY 25, 2019

PR and content marketing are rapidly evolving with new access to data and insights, new methods of measurement and more channels to reach your audience than ever. Most conferences focus on media relations, crisis communications, social media, and measurement, plus a well-known awards show. ContentTECH Summit. Dates: April 8-10, 2019.

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Conference Content Marketing Marketing Internal 256

Critical Mention

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Trying to track all the relevant media and public sentiment for a brand is impossible, as Greg demonstrated. But even a solution like Google Alerts, or a platform that does not provide access to all media types, is not enough in the most critical moments for a brand.

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Media Fashion Television Radio 162

Mindful Marketing

JUNE 22, 2015

Now we’ve all heard that journalism is dying and brand content is taking over and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day the same principles apply to PR that have always applied – third party credibility and endorsement is crucial and that third party being a media outlet still matters and will continue to matter. Content is great.

Media Relations 50

Media Relations Measurement Report Media 50

Onclusive

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This month, the Wall Street Journal outlined dozens of ways social sites and apps are being utilized during a crisis. For brands, however, this rapid-response, multi-channel crisis storm can produce scary challenges: a situation that once took weeks to unfold can now grow into a crisis in a matter of hours.

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Crisis Communications Crisis Communications Employee 325

Cision

DECEMBER 6, 2017

PR has evolved to become more marketing-centric, but content silos and measurement have remained stagnant. When the same PR executives from USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism’s 2017 Global Communications Report were asked about the future of PR — 88 percent believe digital storytelling is the most salient trend.

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How To Marketing Storytelling Measurement 223

Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 26, 2015

We welcomed four stellar guests including the Washington Business Journal ‘s Jennifer Nycz-Conner , digital marketing brand strategist for V3B Shelly Kramer , founder of Red Shift Writers (and regular contributor to this blog!) With four great guests on hand, we began to chat about measuring content.

Measurement 40

Measurement Journalism Video Community 40

Cision

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Of the three pillars of the marketer’s media mix — paid, owned and earned — earned media can be the most challenging to measure. Despite Facebook’s measurement problems , Google’s ad controversy and $7B of fraud allegations, the dollars keep flowing. You’re going to see where [brands] look more to earned media.

Media 230

Media Measurement Advertising Advertising 230

Cision

OCTOBER 4, 2017

As you look through an interrogative lens — analyzing brands, consumers and the media’s relationship with multimedia, it’s easy to see that visual content is the engine that steers the narrative. Multimedia is a crucial component to impactful modern-day journalism. This post, however, is aimed to put visual content on the pedestal.

How To 282

How To Storytelling B2C Measurement 282

Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Indeed, paper published in The Journal of Marketing in 1978 suggested that alignment of marketing and communication functions drove better business outcomes. COVID-19 has been a significant driver, but media change, a reappraisal of brands, and business performance are also factors. It also impacts the corporate and consumer brand.

Trends 157

Trends Publicity Marketing Case Study 157

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 5, 2015

But how many of us are effectively measuring it? Here are some tips on getting started measuring your storytelling efforts. 5 “W”s to Consider Before Starting PR Measurement. The other half involves measuring to prove ROI,” says Gina Joseph before she reveals the big “W”s. ” 4. Silverman.

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Storytelling Measurement Content Marketing Tools 40

Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s not news that social media has taken the business world by storm, changing the way consumers research their purchases and creating an unprecedented opportunity for brands to build one-to-one relationships with their brand’s biggest fans.

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Media Relations Newspapers Measurement Social Media 331

Critical Mention

MAY 12, 2021

Critical Mention’s Licensed Content offering makes it incredibly simple for media pros to track and measure mentions within worldwide news sources and industry trade journals. .

Radio 174

Radio Sports Journalism Analytics 174

Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Far too many brands delegate, and relegate social strategy development and implementation to their ad agencies, internal marketing departments, even their PR intern, with a mandate to replicate, share, and spread commercial messages. The thing about marketing is that to fill your net you have to fish where the fish are.

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Marketing Facebook Social Media Community 244

Onclusive

JUNE 14, 2017

Brand strategy teams set mandates around key messages by creating a boilerplate, message card, branding guidelines and so forth. Marketing’s job is then to identify key audiences and directly market to them through the lens of the brand. Marketing Goal 2: Better position your brand or product. Magazine, and more.

Marketing 170

Marketing Measurement Trends B2B 170

Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 10, 2019

If I were a brand-side PR leader, I would be bolstering my budgets in the following areas–and here’s why: Video AND audio production. I just read a social media trend post yesterday that claimed 50% of brands would start or plan to start a podcast in 2020. And, then I’d double down again. Senior-level social content.

Brand 79

Brand Branding Survey Conference 79

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 3, 2019

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. If leadership insists that only splashy features in Fast Company or The Wall Street Journal will do, it will miss many opportunities. No measure of success.

SEO 178

SEO Storytelling Product Launch Measurement 178

Cision

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

As Cision’s 2016 Global Social Journalism Study notes, email continues to not only be the most common form of contact between journalists and PR professionals, it’s also the most preferred. However, to reach journalists tomorrow , agencies and brand communicators must consider the other options gaining ground.

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Infographics Social Media Media Journalism 120