5 PR Lessons From Our Favorite Instagrammers
With more than 400 million users monthly, Instagram can be a powerful tool in a PR campaign — as we previously noted here. With 68 percent of users saying they engage with brands on Instagram, big brands, small businesses, and influencers alike have embraced the social media platform, producing content that professional communicators can learn much from. Here are […]
Read More5 Steps To Good PR From Social Media Complaints
Social media has become a favorite medium for customer service complaints, but is there a way to transform such complaints into good PR for your company? We think there is. Customer service and public relations are growing closer, and engaging complainers on social media — the right way — is an opportunity to turn critics […]
Read MoreThe PR Wisdom Of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Updated)
Like many professional communicators, I’ve long considered Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as an example of natural public relations instincts and admired his speeches and sermons as models of artful and persuasive communications. The celebrated “I Have A Dream” address can still give me chills. But King’s life and writings offer more inspiration for professional […]
Read More7 Ways To Help Your Tech PR Agency Succeed
If you’ve ever worked with a top technology PR agency, you know the business of developing public relations programs for hot tech companies or startups can be challenging. That’s why it’s important that all members of your PR team are working in sync and that the time is being well deployed. To be successful, there […]
Read MoreTheranos: Triumph Of PR Over Science?
The suddenly sober mood of 2016 is extending to Silicon Valley. The tech sector’s experiencing a sense of caution and maybe a renewed commitment to diligence after much exuberance. Part of that is something Fast Company calls the “Theranos effect.” The rise and fall of the once-promising health technology startup is a warning for investors […]
Read More8 Key Questions To Ask A PR Firm
If part of your 2016 B2B PR planning is to invest in a top-notch PR firm, use these eight key questions to ask a PR Firm before picking the right company for you. #1) Can you provide some recent, relevant case histories? Ideally an agency’s selection isn’t based solely on category experience, but it’s an […]
Read MoreThe Top Tech PR Stories Of 2015
As PR agency professionals and other pundits make up their “best” and “worst” lists for 2015, technology stories and the PR behind them will be ubiquitous. That’s because the publications and brands that used to be followed by geeks and technical experts are now mainstream. Mashable, for example, reports regularly on general news stories, and […]
Read MoreOur PR New Year’s Resolutions: 5 Things We Promise To Do
Every good PR agency knows how to turn a holiday into an opportunity for good work. For the New Year, we’d like to seize the occasion to make a fresh start and set new goals. Goals are a way to challenge oneself and stay on course (or redirect when needed), and they help take stock of what […]
Read MoreSix Things PR Can Learn From "The Big Short"
What can a New York PR agency learn from the cautionary financial tale of the last decade? A lot, actually. “The Big Short,” the brilliant and entertaining “economics lesson” on the real estate collapse that brought down the U.S. banking system in 2008 (based on Michael Lewis’s bestseller), is full of takeaways that PR pros can use. […]
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