The Public Relations Blog

News media will always be relevant.

Before we dive into the importance of news media, let’s briefly define what news media is. News media is the exposure and coverage your company gets from other platforms that your company doesn’t own.

Still not sure what this means? Take a more in-depth look at what news media is and what it includes.

A logo is a huge responsibility — and where many companies make big mistakes.

In my decades of experience working with art directors, I’ve found that logos are among the most difficult assignments. That’s because they require the most talent of any design project.

Most designers frequently create miscellaneous marketing materials, not logos. The bigger the company, the more likely the artist is simply reproducing production artwork from existing style guides and templates.

But to do a logo is a huge responsibility — and where many companies, and most small businesses, make big mistakes.

Three essential tools to evaluate your PR campaign’s success

Measuring, monitoring, and evaluating your corporate communications and public relations campaigns will allow them to evolve and improve. Assess your current strategy to determine if it’s working or if you need to take another approach. 

If you have an unsuccessful campaign and you don’t know because you never measured it, how can you call your company successful? You need to put in the work and measure, monitor, and evaluate your tactics to see if it’s successful and providing an ROI.

Learn how your company can improve its social media presence with our guest Emily Barrett of Axia Public Relations.

Guest:

Our episode guest is Emily Barrett, social media specialist at Axia Public Relations. Her role is to monitor social media channels and develop unique, innovative, and engaging content.

Previously, we’ve covered that you cannot guarantee earned media coverage. Anyone that attempts to offer you guaranteed results for public relations, much less guaranteed earned media coverage, is someone you don’t want to work with as a client since there are no guarantees in public relations. But, is there something you, as the client, can offer as a guarantee?

These days, memes have become a popular marketing tool for entrepreneurs. No individual can say they have not seen a meme on a digital platform. If you want to increase your marketing base, you may use memes on various social media platforms. However, you have to understand what memes are and why they are outstanding. Memes are a powerful tool for making people laugh. Videos and pictures of regular animals or people get chosen, and then they are modified sarcastically and intelligently. You can explore the collection on Meme Scout to market correctly. They will create the desired effect.

Image/Meme advertising is an amazing asset utilized via web-based media, which can be in any structure like a video, text content, a gif picture, and so forth. The substance of image promoting will, in general, get viral on the web whenever it is liked by individuals, which is the rationale of doing image showcasing. Image promoting is utilizing fun approaches to connect with individuals online.

Know the seven steps for better media pitching from Muck Rack’s State of Journalism.

Pitching isn’t just a skill needed in baseball; it’s an important part of public relations. It’s the skill that helps your company or client get positive news coverage. 

As PR professionals, it’s important to know how to successfully pitch to journalists. Here are seven actions to help excel in that skill.

Media relationships are the backbone for getting the positive news coverage your company needs. But what do you do if the same media relationships give you negative coverage? This can potentially hurt your company, so how do you tackle it?

Is it possible to guarantee your story will get covered in earned media?

One key aspect of public relations is getting your story told in the media. This is called earned media, and it’s the one thing everyone wants from public relations plans. However, getting an earned media story is a long process that requires successful pitching, finding the right journalist(s) to pitch to, and allowing them to transform your story into theirs. The reward is well worth it, but the process is difficult.

Learn why corporate communicators should collaborate with a PR agency to better share brand messages with Dawn Buzynski of Hy-Vee

Guest:

Our episode guest is Dawn Buzynski, Director of Strategic Communications at Hy-Vee. She oversees the communications initiatives designed to promote and elevate the brand.