After attracting the attention of the target audience and generating interest in marketing and public relations messages, the final step in creating compelling copy is to elicit action. The aim of writing sales copy is to get people to act or react. Beyond this, it is...
3 comms trends brands need to watch in 2022
With the new year now upon us, it’s a great time for brands to look at potential trends in digital marketing and digital PR for 2022. For companies to be able to make a good plan in the short term, they always have to be keeping an eye on their long-term plans. While...
Media coverage essentials—3 key components of pitching strategy
Every company and business owner is constantly looking for new strategies to generate media coverage in the public relations industry. However, not everyone understands what it really takes to reach out to news outlets or reporters, and to have a story ready in a way...
When crisis PR goes wrong: Alec Baldwin’s misguided response
Recently, Alec Baldwin sat down for an interview with George Stephanopoulos regarding the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his film “Rust”. According to Baldwin, he would have never pointed a firearm at another person and pulled the...
Why you should be researching competitors on social media
Companies that are able to succeed on social media platforms will be fast to evolve, and can focus on continuously improving their business. When a business is constantly able to improve its social strategy, it finds new and better ways to share its story, connect...
People-based adaptive marketing—4 examples of success
People-based adaptive marketing takes a personal approach to marketing, allowing businesses to customize messaging and deliver campaigns at optimal times. People-based adaptive marketers sponsor hackathons these days. Hackathons are events that bring together internal...
Why thought leadership is important in PR efforts for B2B businesses
In every single industry, companies are constantly positioning themselves as business leaders through putting out multiple different pieces of content as part of their public relations strategies. Thought leadership is an effective PR approach where experienced...
When is public criticism of companies and their changes valid?
Most of the time, internet users tend to disagree with any sort of design change, no matter how small it might be. Even if it’s the slightest hue changes of a color or the size of a font, people will be talking about it and criticizing the change for days on social...
4 smart design tips for creating effective landing pages
One of the cornerstones of successful digital PR and marketing is creating effective landing pages. No matter how incredible a company’s product or a service might be or how optimized all of its content and ads are, without an effective landing page, most businesses...
When businesses should be talking about social issues—and how best to do it
These days, companies of all shapes and sizes are under increasing pressure from the public as well as their own employees to speak out on various social issues. According to some researchers, over 80 percent of the public expects CEOs to speak out publicly on social...
4 tips for turning a crisis situation into an opportunity
Most of the time, when a crisis strikes, business owners resist making any necessary or even smart changes. However, crisis situations are one of the best times to create a sense of motivation and urgency for companies to finally make some long-awaited positive...
Inbox survival skills for promotional emails
Nowadays email inboxes have become clogged with messages that people simply don’t want to read. More often than not, customers start applying their own sets of rules to determine which emails they will read and which they will ignore or send to the trash. With the...