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Thirteen tips for being included in a news story

News media coverage is important and necessary for CPA firms because it improves your company’s overall reputation with the public. Inclusion in news stories also helps place your CPA firm at the forefront of new customers’ minds as well as solidify your company as the best choice for current customers. 

The hundred dollar question you may be asking yourself is how does a CPA firm get in the news?

Insurance companies benefit from media coverage

Why is it so great for companies like insurance firms to get media coverage?

For one, positive media coverage improves the reputation of insurance companies. Secondly, media coverage places your company at the forefront of prospective customers’ minds. More often than not, customers may not know about your insurance company until you are included in a news story and highlighted as an industry expert. When your executives are considered industry experts, your company and executives are on prospective clients’ radar when they need an insurance company.

So how exactly do insurance companies get in the news?

Search engine optimization is a great strategy to grow your online traffic, leads, and sales. When you do it right, you can earn a position at the top of Google’s search results. On the flip side, if you hire an inexperienced or unethical SEO company, you’re simply wasting your money. 

How to properly use these location-specific digital techniques

Digital marketing is a tricky domain with plenty of jargon that can leave you scratching your head. Take, for example, geofencing and geotargeting. Although they sound similar, these location-based strategies are quite different. 

Learning the difference between geofencing and geotargeting can significantly enhance your overall digital marketing efforts and your ROI. 

Podcasting continues to be one of the fastest-growing media platforms. Podcasts provide entertainment, education, and much more. They’re an efficient way to consume information (you can listen anytime and while you do other things), and they’re relatively easy to produce. By now, you’ve probably listened to a podcast or overheard someone describing one. You may even have several that you listen to regularly. 

Axia Public Relations promoted Clarissa Schearer to public relations associate. She works closely with regional and national construction, home services and professional services clients. Using news, social and web media, she helps clients build awareness, trust and consideration with their target audiences. Prior to joining Axia in August 2019, she had years of retail, theme park and quick service restaurant experience. 

When analyzing a webpage for ranking, search engine algorithms look into what the page is about and how popular or authoritative its website and domain are. 

A website ranks for all the factors present on it, including content, keywords, meta title and description, videos, and images. Off-site factors, like backlinks, social signals, and outreach, determine how high it will rank on the search engine results pages (SERP).

SAN DIEGO – Axia Public Relations presented its $2,000 PR scholarship at the Public Relations Society of America's international conference in San Diego.

The Public Relations Society of America featured Jason Mudd, APR of Axia Public Relations as a keynote speaker at its Montana Communicators Conference last month.

Recently, an overseas company contacted our public relations agency looking for earned media coverage in the United States for its coupon bargain retail website.