Critical Mention

APRIL 17, 2019

Today, nearly 90 percent of companies are using social media marketing and Dreamgrow reports over 60 percent of customers expect companies to offer customer service through their social channels. Brand humanization. Employee advocacy. Interactive Instagram stories. Transparency. Closed groups.

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Communications Conversations

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

TLDR: Brands and customers can’t really be “friends” on social media. He talked about how brands do this kind of thing to, essentially, manipulate people into feeling guilty, hoping they’ll return the favor: “…it’s human nature to feel obligated when someone—even a company—does something for you.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The new feature will allow customers to monitor brand mentions on thousands of the most popular podcasts,” according to a press release. The announcement says the product is “brand new” and names improved searches, filters, news-linked profiles and list building as among the key features. Separately, Cision said it’s Falcon.io

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Communications Conversations

OCTOBER 4, 2018

At the same time, engagement levels are plummeting on Facebook, down by 50% since 2017, according to some reports: We know engagement levels are down (for brands) on Twitter, too (and have been for years). What about Instagram, you say? Yes, let’s look at Instagram. Should I look at chatbots more closely?

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5W PR

JULY 15, 2020

Media kits are an excellent way to introduce the brand to people who may be unfamiliar with it, such as influencers, event attendees, journalists, or prospective clients. While a media kit is a collection of information about the brand, not all media kits will look the same. Evolution and History of Media Kits.

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Landis PR

MARCH 14, 2022

Five Key Steps to Introducing Your Consumer Brand to a New Social Media Platform. Having a social media strategy can boost your brand and expand your market, but that doesn’t all happen overnight. Being intentional with your social media strategy will give your brand its best chance at success.

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Critical Mention

APRIL 17, 2019

Today, nearly 90 percent of companies are using social media marketing and Dreamgrow reports over 60 percent of customers expect companies to offer customer service through their social channels. Brand humanization. Employee advocacy. Interactive Instagram stories. Transparency. Closed groups.

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Cision

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Most brands have created a combination of accounts to engage with this social media-focused population, but having a presence is only half the battle. How do brands decide who to target when there are so many users and networks to choose from? This second group includes networks like Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Pinterest.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Once upon a time, businesses hopped on social channels to amp up their brand presence and chat with customers. So, it’s a no-brainer for e-commerce (aka ecommerce) brands to team up with social media to make those sales happen. Think of it as using social media to find and cultivate potential customers interested in your offer.

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Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A social media manager loses their temper in a customer service post on Facebook. 1) Provide social media training for everyone that operates as an admin on a brand account. If they are in any way responsible for content, customer service, monitoring or answering fan questions, they need to have a deeper level of training.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Here are seven ways to maximize the power of social media as a brand visibility and lead generation tool. By extension, business customers can also help one another. That’s where tech services that cater to small businesses, like Hubspot and Zendesk, have done a great job. Tell customer stories. Recognize employees.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 15, 2020

Social media activism: brands don’t listen In 2012 Steve Earl and I wrote a book called Brand Anarchy. Any gap between a product or service and the public’s expectation will become a conversation on social media. Brand shaming has become commonplace. It is almost a sport on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 16, 2024

They employ 20 employees. Generative AI-assisted writing Like many PR software solution providers, the generative AI that Propel is using is based on technology from OpenAI the maker of ChatGPT (Propel is currently using version 4 – that’s the latest – and learn to model your brand voice).

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

They enable consumer brand marketers to connect with influencers who have large followings on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, in a straightforward transactional manner. I predict brands will look to the PESO model (which stands for paid, earned, shared and owned media) to make more of their owned media.

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Prohibition

MARCH 5, 2020

With social media now a well established tool for businesses, and a huge part of day-to-day life for most people, it is more important than ever to ensure your business or brand maintains a presence, keeps up to date with all current trends and utilises them to your advantage. Employee Brand Engagement. Targeted Ads.

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Buzzstream

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ask a Company’s Site Chat Many brands incorporate customer service chats directly into their website. Ask On Social Media Some brands are very active on social media; you can simply ask to connect to the correct person. The brand may not have messaging enabled on some platforms, like X.

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Prohibition

JANUARY 14, 2022

A PR crisis is a negative story about your brand that threatens the reputation of your organisation, causes reputational damage, or negatively impacts sales or stock value. In today’s world, a negative story about your brand or organisation could go viral in an instant. Your brand could be dragged through the mud.

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PRSay

JUNE 26, 2016

So, hold off on the tweets, Facebook updates, Instagram posts and snaps on Snapchat (the communication tactics) until you address social media by using it as a part of your planning process: Get closer to your customers and learn about the market through social media data and analytics.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is firmly on the agenda of industry bodies and progressive organisations are talking steps to address it for employees. Good employers can support the mental health and wellbeing of employees through good management and a progressive workplace, but the organisation needs to deliver its commercial goals. What we do 5.

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Communications Conversations

MARCH 29, 2019

She is well versed in customer service and thrives on building relationships — online and in person — while accomplishing a variety of demanding business goals. Outside of her “day-job”, Megan is passionate about food and fitness, and posts her personal paleo recipes and tips at @paleoinspo on Instagram.

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Stuart Bruce

JULY 23, 2017

There’s more scary stuff when it comes the actual results of the survey as it reveals some quite alarming behaviour amongst many ‘brands’. It says “More than half of brands say that influencers are vital to the success of their social programs, specifically for extending brand reach.”

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

This can include the media, customers, employees, and the general public. Public relations professionals create and maintain a positive image for their organization, often through the use of marketing, branding, and communication strategies. Marketing can also involve market research, product development, and branding.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 15, 2022

In terms of social media monitoring, the company checks off the important boxes: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube and forums. Further, Truescope seems to be able to access the processing power without jacking up the cost for customers. There are a few ways product is technically different: Real-time.

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Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Facebook has a strong and growing platform of services including Instagram and WhatsApp. The shifting media landscape has provided an opportunity for brands, like individuals, to create their own media. The social media ecosystem around the world is maturing with mergers and acquisitions the norm rather than new launches.

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Stephen Waddington

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Facebook has a strong and growing platform of services including Instagram and WhatsApp. Snap, once the darling of visual messaging, has had a tough year losing users to Instagram and its Stories product. What is your brand’s purpose and role in society? 19 Fake news and brand misplacement. It’s not all bad.

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Cision

JULY 6, 2015

Some social conversations are focused on a customer service concern with little latitude for platitude, but social customers otherwise manage interpersonal distance quite effectively (mute, unfollow, disregard, delete). Want to make your brand more sociable on social? The same applies for social media.

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Cision

OCTOBER 16, 2017

I think some in the C-suite do know things like brand awareness are important and they kind of just feel it in their gut that it’s the right thing to do. We’re going to discuss the chatter about your brand among external sources, which is higher than ever, and that old chestnut about tightening budgets.

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Cision

MAY 21, 2015

AskPat is a brand new, DAILY podcast. We talk to real people doing real work in content marketing, representing some of the world’s best brands. Even though women are more apt to share and engage with brands in social media, female thought leaders don’t receive the recognition they deserve. 13) Mike Stelzner.

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The Stalwart Blog

APRIL 26, 2020

Maybe it’s an employee claim against the supervisor, or maybe it’s an errant rogue, a Yelp review. Maybe it’s a poor customer service call that somebody threatened to go on their blog or talk about them on Instagram. Next week we are going to have a whole brand new lineup. Steve Smith: All right.

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