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Defining Your Audience

Corporate communications are full of opportunities to connect or alienate your audience. From Anheuser-Busch and Target boycotts to Apple essentially reinventing engagement, strategic comms is all about taking calculated risks to achieve well-defined goals.  


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Topics: technology, strategy, PR planning, 60-Second Impact

How AI can help improve your public relations

Artificial intelligence can be a great PR assistant, but it’s not the end-all for content creation.

 

Artificial intelligence has taken the tech community by storm in 2023. Originally treated as a novelty, it has quickly become an effective tool in multiple fields. Public relations can benefit from the AI revolution as well.

 

But before looking at how AI can improve your PR, it’s important to learn what AI is.


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Topics: PR tips, PR planning

StoryBrand BrandScript: With a Problem

Now that you know what your consumer wants, you have to interest them in your story. The way to do that is to introduce a problem. Why? Because consumers love to solve problems.

 

In every great story, there is a character who battles a problem. In order to successfully tell a brand’s story, you must incorporate the problems or issues that consumers will come across that the brand can help solve. These problems will allow consumers to relate to the brand and to truly begin the “storytelling” process. Without consumer problems, how would you communicate the effectiveness of your products or services? You wouldn’t be able to because a story without a problem or “plot” isn’t a real story.


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Topics: PR tips, PR planning

What is strategy?

Before you can talk about strategy and have one, you must know how to define it.

 

Most public relations practitioners throw around the word “strategy,” but they don’t really know what it means. This post will help you understand, define, and develop a public relations and corporate communication strategy that stands out from the competition.


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Topics: PR planning

How to create a content marketing strategy that will actually work

High-quality content plays a critical role in your company's digital marketing efforts. Even with upcoming changes to Google, a good page experience doesn't override having great, relevant content. 

 

How do you create a content marketing strategy for your company that works? Many digital marketing experts strive to attract leads and convert them into loyal customers. 


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Topics: PR tips, PR planning

10 components of a strategic public relations plan

It might seem daunting to figure out where to start with a public relations strategy and program. It’s much easier with a public relations plan, but if you’ve never developed one, it might seem challenging. That’s for good reason. The craft of public relations isn’t something you learn overnight. It takes time and experience. 

 

To help you get started, we’ve provided the 10 components of a strategic PR and corporate communications plan outline here, and we’d be happy to help you take it to the next level. This 10-step plan should begin after you define what you want to accomplish and the things you want to correct, prevent, or maintain. 


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Topics: PR tips, PR planning

Why Your Company Needs The StoryBrand BrandScript Framework

Have you ever wondered why brands with excellent products and services sometimes record poor sales? The answer is simple: poor communication of your brand’s message.

 

In this post, we’ll discuss a revolutionary marketing tactic that makes optimal use of fundamental elements of human nature to help companies effortlessly get to the core of their brand message. Author Donald Miller developed this marketing framework, inspired by principles of storytelling called the StoryBrand 7 Part Framework. The “main character” of one’s branding and marketing is the customer, not the brand. The brand plays the role of the guide, leading the “main character” to success.


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Topics: branding, PR planning, story telling

Capitalizing on the March Madness Media Frenzy

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April 2021 – Use Emotional and Functional Marketing to Connect With Your Audience

 

March Madness is a time for brackets, upsets, and Cinderella stories. It’s also an opportunity to connect with your audience on a truly visceral level. We’ll look at strategies that help your team capitalize on all the action right alongside your brand’s community.


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Topics: PR tips, PR planning, 60-Second Impact

Variety is the Spice of Business

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March 2021 – Keep Your PR Team Running Like A John Deere in 2021 and Beyond

 

Top companies are realizing the benefits of diversity in both operations and workforce on a massive scale with the pandemic continuing to alter daily life. Embrace variety to create more engagement, better retention, and a more positive personal outlook.


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Topics: PR tips, PR planning, 60-Second Impact

Keeping Politics Out of Your PR Strategy in 2021

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February 2021 – Leading a PR Team in 2021 and Beyond

 

2021 is already shaping up to be just about as interesting as its predecessor. With a myriad of hot-topic issues derailing positive brand attention, we’ll cover the ways top brands are responding and the best strategies for leading your PR team through any quagmires.


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Topics: PR tips, PR planning, 60-Second Impact

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