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Two Creative PR Stunts that Turned a Press Release Upside Down

Sword and the Script

It’s one of two creative press releases examples that recently crossed my radar and I’m sharing here in this post. A Creative Press Release for B2B Tech. wrote Siftrock in a press release about being included as one of the nearly 7,000 other logos on the marketing technology landscape infographic. This is a press release.

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3 Landmark Studies that Sum Up the State of Creativity for the CMO [UML]

Sword and the Script

I sense we are reaching that point in marketing, with respect to data and creativity. This is the role of creativity in marketing: to drive an emotional connection and feeling of belonging. Where every business has data, perhaps even the same data, we cannot have, by definition, the same creativity.

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Is Creativity a Skill or Talent and Can it be Lost and Learned? [UML]

Sword and the Script

Is creativity a talent or a skill? It seems to me if creativity is a talent it can be fine-tuned, like a natural athlete trains to compete in professional football. On the other hand, if creativity is a skill, it can be taught in the same way, we might teach our children to throw or catch a football. Or it might remain elusive.

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4 Lessons Learned While Managing Creative Marketers

Beyond PR

Creative people are the heart and soul of marketing and communications. Having managed both creative and analytical people over the years has taught me a few things. Having managed both creative and analytical people over the years has taught me a few things. They have the ability to make raw and bland information interesting.

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The changing face–and strategy–of today’s corporate online newsroom

Communications Conversations

The online corporate newsroom has undergone big shifts in the way it looks and operates in the last 15 years–for sure. Remember when online corporate newsrooms used to consist of a list of news releases and nothing more? Heck, many corporate online newsrooms still DO look like that. They include infographics.

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Solo PR Guide to Instagram Ads

Solo PR Pro

Those businesses range from solos to large corporations and span product and service categories. With a little creativity, any business can tell visual stories about their product or service and educate, inspire and connect with their audience. The infographic below provides a quick an easy guide to instagram ads.

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For the Love of #PR – Nine Reasons to Embrace a Career in Public Relations

Critical Mention

You can work with organizations of different sizes from startups to nonprofits to agencies to large corporations. Creativity matters . There are more ways than ever to be creative in PR. Of course, writing and creating content is one way to express creativity, but now, visuals play a greater role in getting the news out.

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