Shift Communications

OCTOBER 10, 2014

With the advent of new technologies for the public relations, marketing and advertising industries, it can be hard for a new business or solo entrepreneur to know where to get started and what the current best practices should be. Lessons in depth. What are the lessons like you ask? The first piece of advice (love!):

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 18, 2018

New companies naturally want to make the brand story all about them, and a colorful narrative about a bootstrapped business can be a powerful media pitch in a PR campaign. But when we take the story directly to customers and prospects in the form of email or content marketing, it often loses that nuance.

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Cision

JULY 25, 2017

Using tools like Help A Reporter Out (HARO) and ProfNet provides PR professionals, brands and industry experts alike the opportunity to access and respond to earned media opportunities pitched by journalists.

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Garrett Public Relations

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As someone who has spent much […] The post Getting Featured: Six Tips to Secure More Media Coverage for Your Business appeared first on Garrett Public Relations. Some companies seem to get in their own way when it comes to earning media coverage. I’ve seen it time and again. They wonder why they’re not getting more “hits.”

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Prohibition

MAY 13, 2022

As a business, you may already have an of understanding how public relations works. However, those new to PR, small businesses, or even well-established companies might need a little more support. To find out more about how PR can positively impact your business, product or company goals, get in touch.

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Solo PR Pro

JULY 27, 2021

To improve your odds of attracting new business leads and converting them into loyal clients, it’s important to make sure your About page provides a clear and concise picture of who you are and can stand out from others in the field. Trying to write content for an About page can feel daunting, but it doesn’t have to be!

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 6, 2016

Marketers who participated in the survey said that influencer engagement was effective in building brand awareness, generating leads and nurturing loyalty. Particularly in the case of small businesses, getting an influencer to notice you and talk about your product or service can be discouragingly difficult.

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Garrett Public Relations

JUNE 19, 2022

It’s often said a picture is worth a thousand words. It turns out that it may even be worth better results from your public relations initiatives. A study by PR Newswire found that press releases with photos garnered nearly twice as many views as text alone. Further: Articles with images get 94% more views Readers connect with images […].

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I found myself covered with social media calendars, PR pitches, blog posts, website projects, advertisement assignments, and what felt like a million clients to call. The thrill of hunting new business, executing existing projects and partnering with others in my field gave me the will to go out and make things happen. I loved it.

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PR Fuel

MARCH 17, 2020

Your small business may feel like a tiny sapling under a canopy of tall trees. How do you bring attention to your business? There are so many other businesses out there, and people only have so much attention to give. PR helps small businesses build brand awareness and credibility.

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Prohibition

JULY 19, 2018

And, over the past 20 years, with the rise of the digital age , we’ve seen the PR techniques employed by big and small brands alike becoming more abstract and off the cuff in a bid to capture the attention of what is now a hugely saturated market. Write media pitches about a firm and send them onto journalists. Speech writing.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Take the Full Content Marketing Prescription. The same is true for content marketing. Consistency is the single most valuable attribute of effective content marketing – and the prescription lasts for the life of a business. Most businesses won’t have the success of 3.6 million YouTube views.

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ZudePR

JULY 20, 2016

In some small businesses, the owner also produces the product or service, markets it and delivers it to clients.”. And you’ll drastically reduce your time spent pitching for work. #24: Don’t be afraid to be different. It works for me. 24: Learn from Related Industries. They’re the Experts. Depends on your point of view.

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Remote PR Jobs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Pitching PR In this podcast, host Lesley Luce “cuts through the jargon and puts a new spin on the PR industry.” Copyblogger FM Copyblogger FM is a weekly broadcast hosted by Sonia Simone that analyzes the week’s biggest changes and industry trends in the world of content marketing, copywriting, email marketing and more.

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Sword and the Script

JULY 14, 2015

Content marketing is the new branding. Content marketing *is* PR. Content marketing is the new buyer’s journey. But for the vast majority of marketers, especially in large organizations, content marketing is still a new concept, it’s still seeping into the culture. Almost passé.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 13, 2019

The suite was the weaving together of tools Vocus had acquired into a product aimed at the small business market. It included email (iContact), press releases (PRWeb), media relations (HARO), and social media (North Social and Engine 140), bundled in what was pitched as an easy-to-use and all-in-one product.

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Cision

JULY 15, 2015

Usually a Tweetchat is held around a theme, like public relations or small business. Each session has a more specific topic, like “pitching the media your news” or “starting a tech company.”. Her topics center around — you guessed it — small business topics, and attract thousands of participants.

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Beyond PR

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve been using this strategy for several years on my blog , and I’m to the point where I have so many fabulous guest bloggers that I rarely need to write content myself (which gives me more time to write on sites like Cision!). Bloggers who did nothing to promote the content they published on my blog.

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Because what do we normally do when we need better results as content marketers? Our biggest issue is how we make decisions in our work as content marketers. As an account manager, I had over 1,000 small business clients, all of which received “scalable sales initiatives” from me and my teammates.

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Burrelles Fresh Ideas

JUNE 13, 2023

Tip 4: Utilize content marketing for PR On a budget, content marketing is a potent tool for enhancing PR efforts. For maximum impact on engagement metrics across target audiences-groups, consider crafting top-tier educational content explicitly tailored to resonate with their interests and unique challenges.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 5, 2016

This PR agency will focus on the business-to-business (B2B) marketplace and provide professional services in public relations, content marketing and social media. We are practicing what we preach because this content marketing trend is not a fad. A Stage Set Early in Career.

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Sword and the Script

MAY 26, 2015

That’s not by accident, and though I’ve managed a half-dozen or so firms in my tenure, including international firms, I tend to favor a smaller shops, that are nimble, highly responsive, provide access to the firm’s leadership and by virtue of being a small business, have some of their own skin in the game. d) make a decision.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The following steps can help you plan and execute your content promotion and distribution strategy. Keep in mind that larger organizations may have many more employees involved in the post-publication process compared with a startup or small business. The sales team to use in upcoming sales efforts such as pitch meetings.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Marketing be nimble. Rather than having year-long editorial calendars for opportunities and content, marketing and communications professionals are will have to work in a much more agile, phased approach: creating evergreen content per quarter and making room for ‘rapid-response’ type communications based on what 2021 might throw at us.

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