The Public Relations Blog

How media networks draw the public in

Within the last decade, businesses around the globe have turned to social media outlets to publish content and to promote their brands, products and services. Social media is an extremely effective and efficient way to spread direct information to a global population in real time. HubSpot’s Inbound Certification Course explains how companies can use social media to ultimately gain more customers.

According to HubSpot, an astounding 70 percent of the world’s Internet population is active on social media. These days, business prospects spend more of their free time on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ than they do shopping in a store or searching the Internet. That is why it is crucial for businesses to embrace this technological shift and use social media to their advantage.

Keep track of what they’re saying about you on this vital site.

A candidate who didn’t get the job trashes your company on Glassdoor. He’s just bitter, so it’s no big deal. A former employee does the same, but people don’t really pay attention to that kind of thing. Or do they?

Some companies don’t take Glassdoor reviews seriously. Others have no idea what it says or how their companies appear. Both attitudes can have lasting, negative consequences for your company. 

Why sending the right email to the right person still matters

Have you heard anyone recently say “email is dead,” “all marketing emails are spam,” or other similar phrases? If so, let me tell you that email is not dead and is in fact still a very important factor in successful inbound marketing. Many traditional marketers have long used and abused email’s purpose by sending obnoxious messages to people who don’t want to receive them and who have learned how to tune them out. Nevertheless, email can still be extremely effective if marketers use proper inbound strategies to send the right email to the right person.

How to properly use social media channels

Companies that use social media properly distribute content to their consumers differently, depending on the platform. In other words, it doesn’t make sense to share content through a LinkedIn post in the same manner you would in a tweet.

Each social media outlet has a different audience with a specific agenda. While LinkedIn and Google+ are targeted at much more professional audiences, Facebook and Twitter are far more casual.

By using each of the four major social media outlets appropriately, businesses can most effectively reach their target buyer personas.

Why inbound is the way to go

PR explains the importance of using videos for increased visibility

How will you introduce your next new product to the world? Will it be a voice-over actor in an advertisement, a newscaster reading from a script on the news or one of your salespeople? These are the routes most modern companies take.

Why the travel and tourism industry needs PR

A teenager horsing around in your hotel falls from a balcony and is seriously injured. A shark attacks a family enjoying some water sports off your city’s beaches. There’s no way you could predict or prevent occurrences such as these, but the media and the public will expect your organization to answer for them.

PR explains the importance and components of a great Kickstarter video

A puppy becoming best friends with a Clydesdale horse is touching. An unusually bendable cell phone is fascinating. A mutant giant spider dog is plain weird. These are just some of the most popular videos on YouTube. However, what makes a great video on Kickstarter?

When designing, architects make sure you leave room for a PR plan

Architecture firms are great at drawing up plans for upcoming building remodels, but often fall short when it comes to executing promotion and publicity efforts for their own companies. The right PR firm can take yours to the next level.

You may think that an architecture firm doesn’t need PR; that its good work literally stands for itself in the buildings and spaces it designs and helps to create. However, unless your name is on everything you’ve ever designed, your work isn’t always apparent to potential clients. That’s where PR can help.