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5 reasons why companies should keep investing in PR during a recession

As the economy changes, so does consumer spending, which in turn impacts most every company. Decreases in your customers’ spending can negatively impact your company’s bottom line and decrease the things your company can spend money on. In some ways, it can become a vicious circle.

 

When your income decreases, your company usually cuts the “extras” first. While you may need to decrease unnecessary expenses, you should look at how cutting expenses and services may impact your company overall.


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Topics: PR tips, investment

When it comes to setting PR agency expectations, don't be this company

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


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Topics: investment, news media

Get more money out of your PR investment

Axia PR helps you measure the ROI of your public relations efforts


While it might seem difficult to measure public relations, it’s not impossible. When you measure PR, you document the return on investment of your public relations campaign. Great PR improves an audience’s awareness, trust, understanding, and consideration of the topic, and it ultimately causes the audience to act.


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Topics: investment, measurement

The 2%: You’re talking to yourself and why no one likes your social media posts

Many industry analysts agree that organic reach for company Facebook Pages is now as low as 2%, and some speculate it’s even lower (without sponsoring those posts). You must pay to play.

If you aren’t boosting your company’s social media posts, you’re just talking to yourself. You’re barely reaching your target audience and your social media engagement is low. It’s challenging to increase social reach and engagement, and ever-changing algorithms make it more so.


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Topics: investment, shared media

Why billing by the hour (and by the word) might be unethical

Our PR agency bills based on value and scope. We don’t recommend billing or paying by the word or by the hour.

 

Many professional services firms – including some great law firms, accounting firms, engineering firms, architecture firms, and public relations firms – bill hourly. Our firm is somewhat of an anomaly, as we don’t bill hourly.

 

In fact, with all due respect to our professional service colleagues who do, we have personal and corporate ethical issues with hourly billing. And we are not alone in this opinion. While you might not share our belief, we’ll explain in this blog post our ethical concerns, why brevity is key, and why results ultimately matter more.


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Topics: investment, earned media

Use Google to verify a PR firm’s capabilities

How you can properly vet a company before doing business with them


We were in the final in-person pitch with a prospective client. The client was a tech company that had developed a negative reputation online for its fast-paced growth because it had hurt some feelings along the way. While the company earned this reputation, the managers saw the errors of their ways and wanted to get a better handle on the company’s reputation after improving its operations and culture.


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Topics: SEO, investment, measurement, earned media

Overcoming 3 common PR measurement objections

You do have the time, money, and data to measure public relations


The reasons for incorporating measurement and evaluation into your company’s public relations strategy are many:

  • You know actual metrics behind reach, impressions, items, mentions, and engagement to understand the effectiveness of campaigns.
  • You see which media channels certain audiences are most responsive to.
  • You can predict future trends for better planning and agile response.

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Topics: investment, measurement, earned media

Is blockchain for public relations?

Blockchain has received a lot of attention in recent months, especially after the explosive growth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in December. Many people associate blockchain solely with financial applications. Others see potential for blockchain technology in nearly all aspects of life. It’s helpful to have a basic understanding of what blockchain is in order to thoughtfully consider how it may help your company, including your public relations efforts.


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Topics: financial services, technology, investment, earned media

How to use data for real PR results

Applying the PDCA/Deming Cycle to public relations for strategic growth and improvement

Using measurement and evaluation (M&E) is a process that takes deliberate planning to thoroughly implement. It’s more than lifting some data from your analytics software and hoping to do better next month. Our previous blog posts discussed the difference between measurement and evaluation, the importance of knowing your purpose in this process, what kind of measurement data to collect and how to create SMART goals.


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Topics: public relations, investment, measurement, earned media

How long until you start seeing results from PR?

Is 3 months too soon? Is a year too long? Learn more about what PR can and can’t do for your business

You’ve signed on with a new public relations agency. It’s been several months and you’re not seeing any real results. Should you give the firm more time? Or, is it time to find a new PR firm?

You know PR is an ongoing process; yet, you need to have something concrete to show the C-suite or board of directors to justify the expense. This post will help explain what you can expect from your PR firm and in what time frame.


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Topics: public relations, investment

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