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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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 12, 2018

Here’s a “cheat sheet” to help brands get a leg up on the PR universe this year. How to maximize brand PR: a “cheat sheet” Remember the investment goes beyond the PR budget. Not every brand has a tight, easily told story, and some have complicated, dull, or even questionable histories.

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Ishmael's Corner

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

When we capture storytelling assets for one of our clients, no one proactively comes forth to share the time that something went horribly wrong. Yet, failure is one of the best techniques to bring tension or even drama to business storytelling. The invention didn’t see the light day. The ramifications for PR are counter-intuitive.

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Cision

JANUARY 28, 2016

Your audience is looking for stories, and the ones that resonate with them will generate leads and drive results for your brand. But is your brand telling the right story? For your brand’s content to be successful, you need to implement brand journalism. But what does brand journalism success look like? McDonald’s.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 4, 2022

They’re also important; in fact, a company shouldn’t be in business if it can’t point to high quality and talented employees. It made the brand more interesting, and best of all, media loved it. As storytellers, we’re taught to show, not tell. There may be evidence to support them, which always helps.

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Stern + Associates

MARCH 5, 2024

A compelling corporate innovation story represents a valuable opportunity to differentiate from competitors, educate investors, galvanize employees and attract prospective new talent. Identify the Voices Your company’s innovation story is just that – a story – so it’s important to identify the right storytellers within the organization.

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Cision

OCTOBER 8, 2015

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. The brands we showcase in this Social Business Journal are: Dell, Humana, NASA, Southwest Airlines and Walmart. Employee Advocacy. Storytelling.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 15, 2020

There were some clear misses in my original essay: social media activism, internal communications, storytelling and professionalism in PR. Social media activism: brands don’t listen In 2012 Steve Earl and I wrote a book called Brand Anarchy. Brand shaming has become commonplace. I’ve developed each of these themes below.

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Ishmael's Corner

OCTOBER 26, 2014

For consumer companies, Facebook offers one of the easiest platforms for brand storytelling. Take that photo of a customer smiling over the company’s product/service or that video of employees raising money for a worthy cause, publish on Facebook and voila! You instantly bring out the humanity of the brand.

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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. There are some PR tactics that can help. Have a distinct voice. Have a distinct voice.

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Onclusive

JANUARY 26, 2022

PR pros need a data-driven strategy to reach their goals of securing high-impact media coverage for their brands. If you send your story to someone who is likely to be as passionate about telling it as you are, you’ll be one step closer to generating impactful coverage for your brand. Where do you find impactful journalists?

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Cision

JANUARY 5, 2016

The answer is brand journalism. Brand journalism combines journalistic storytelling tactics with brand strategy to engage audiences and increase brand reputation. So what will your brand get out of brand journalism? Your brand should have a similar mindset, though your motives may be different.

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Compelling storytelling is an incredibly powerful way to communicate with your target audience. Digital storytelling is at the top of the list of communication trends that PR executives believe will dominate in the next five years. Example: How Cotopaxi leveraged storytelling to sell its brand.

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PRSay

MAY 10, 2022

DON’T lead with the features: Doodley Doo is an innovative and fun way for your employees to upskill in data visualization and data storytelling. DO lead with the benefits: Help your employees boost their data visualization and storytelling skills with Doodley Doo.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JULY 5, 2017

Any PR or marketing expert will tell you that for a brand to connect with customers, it should strive for authenticity. But what about brands that don’t have a compelling story, or who have strayed from their roots due to their very success? Karly Gomez. Can authenticity be designed after the fact? No surprise there.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The role of a PR agency in this alignment, and in building an organization’s reputation among customers, employees, and stakeholders, is central. A PR relationship may be challenging for brands to manage if they expect to take a hands-off approach and still be successful. Each is supported by tactics designed to achieve them. .

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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 19, 2021

At first glance, TikTok’s audience, which skews younger, may not seem like the ideal place for a B2B brand. And based on personal experience, the platform’s algorithm has gotten very good at recommending related content on the “For You” page—including posts that come from brands. It depends. I love the moon.

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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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Cision

AUGUST 4, 2016

Approximately 82 percent of consumers actually enjoy reading branded content, if it’s relevant to what they’re looking to learn about. Rather than force-feeding audiences nonstop, lackluster content, take a moment to return to Storytelling 101. Uncover what already exists by revisiting your brand’s mission and goals.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

And storytelling in B2B marketing is the theme for this weeks’ Unscripted Marketing links [UML]. Many brands attempt to begin stories with what when they ought to begin with why. She writes: “Want to know the real reason brands publish content with no value? Why Content Marketing is the New Branding.

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Onclusive

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Owned Media & Content Strategy Owned media consists of publishing content on brand-owned channels such as a customer-facing blog, email campaign, or social media outreach. 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

APRIL 6, 2015

And, 75% of participants have never tried a Victory Motorcycle before–so the brand won when it came to raising brand awareness with an audience who is probably predisposed to buy. It’s just one example in a short list of brand executions using VR recently. But, I guess it depends on your view of “storytelling.”

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PRSay

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Often, communication professionals think first about the message as it would play out in the press, on social media or in a soundbite, but a sometimes-forgotten audience is the employees, staffers and frontline workers who also have to work within an organization facing a crisis.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 15, 2020

Here are a few ways Instagram can help amplify storytelling for B2B organizations. Its Instagram is a showcase for Slack itself, the posts are fun, just like the brand. People want to see people behind the brands featured. Consider a weekly or monthly spotlight on key employees on your page. This is a no-brainer.

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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. Plus, as Contently goes on to say, "a good story will make a brand seem unique among similar fierce competition."

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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 communicators regularly work with stakeholders across the organization to develop and distribute pertinent info to employees and key affiliates. Corporate Communications.

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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 communicators regularly work with stakeholders across the organization to develop and distribute pertinent info to employees and key affiliates. Owned Media & Content Strategy.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

That means creative work, like generating innovative ideas for programs, and like — storytelling. And the heart of public relations is in storytelling. They want to know why a company exists and what its brand stands for. How are its employees treated? What does it value? Why does it matter? ” Building trust.

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NewsWhip

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

7th – 12th, and as an update to our crisis blog covering the incidents from Gucci, Prada, and more , we took a look at actions taken between then and now to see what’s changing with regard to diversity training and inclusion initiatives among huge designer brands. New York Fashion Week was Feb. Now, city governments are involved.

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Onclusive

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

From customers to potential investors and employees, the key to reaching your audience is understanding what interests and motivates them. 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.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Every PR pro knows the importance of storytelling. Here are some tips on getting started measuring your storytelling efforts. Why: “And as any good PR pro knows, storytelling is also key to a successful campaign—yet it’s only half of the equation. 3 Ways to Measure the Results of a Business Storytelling Project.

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Onclusive

JUNE 15, 2022

Generating brand awareness PR is a great vehicle for generating brand awareness through media relations, news coverage and thought leadership content distribution, all of which contribute to increasing your brand’s online footprint. Equilar spends 90% of our marketing and communications efforts on earned media.

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Onclusive

JUNE 15, 2022

Generating brand awareness. PR is a great vehicle for generating brand awareness through media relations, news coverage and thought leadership content distribution, all of which contribute to increasing your brand’s online footprint. Developing stakeholder trust.

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Landis PR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Finding successful clients and employees Being values-aligned helps find and nurture successful relationships with both clients and employees. As PR professionals, we guide our clients to support their mission through storytelling. Parallel to that, smart and engaged employees want to work for organizations they believe in.

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Stern + Associates

APRIL 27, 2023

Bridging strategy, organizational design, purpose orientation and leadership, his frameworks for unlocking the hidden capabilities within individuals and organizations help employees feel more motivated, bring customers closer to brands and reshape interactions from transactional to relational.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 29, 2019

In public relations, we rely on a blend of experience, storytelling instinct, and imagination to inform our programs and our work. The best plans also start with a thorough brand communications audit that includes insights into customer, channel partner, and employee perceptions of the business or its products.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 1, 2019

Sometimes PR objectives are described in vague terms, like “increased visibility” or “greater brand recognition.” Data can be an enormous asset to even the most creative campaign; check out Richard’s post on data-driven storytelling tips. It’s better for everyone if objectives are precise.

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