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How to Find and Work With the Right Influencers for Your Brand

February 3rd, 2016 by

Ignore influencers at your peril. LA World Airports’ Mary Grady provides tips for finding and working with the right influencers for your brand.

6 Recommendations That Will Make Your PR Writing Great in 2016

January 11th, 2016 by

What Tolstoy knew, and many others don’t, is that writing is hard.

Onsite SEO Checklist: Have You Done Everything Listed Here?

December 10th, 2015 by

There are a lot of little things that can add up to a big difference.

Tips to Create Quality Video on a Shoestring and Make Sure It’s Seen

November 24th, 2015 by

Video expert Tod Plotkin provides tips on creating video, optimizing search and getting it distributed.

How to Create Content That’s Data Informed, Not Data Driven

October 5th, 2015 by

When it comes to the intersection of data and content, it’s important that the human element of your content creation process isn’t asleep at the wheel while data drives the process.

How to Write Effective Press Releases That Reporters Will Actually Read

August 24th, 2015 by

The press release is far from dead. Yet some elements of writing an effective release have changed.

5 Steps to Building a Winning Content Strategy

August 17th, 2015 by

Shawn Paul Wood of Woodworks Communications shares his content strategy checklist, borne of hard-earned experience.

How to Get Your Media Pitches Read

August 17th, 2015 by

Email is still preferred to social media when pitching journalists because it allows you to really control your message and provide details.

How To Get PR Boots on The Ground

November 18th, 2013 by

Our friends in marketing have been conducting observational research for years, and now leading communicators are following suit. Think of it as a tactical adaptation bred of a Darwinian necessity—it’s a messaging jungle out there, and if we are to survive we must be ruthlessly in touch with our stakeholders’ realities so we can somehow influence them with our words and images.

How To Shed Light on Complex Stories

November 11th, 2013 by

On a daily basis, we see Democrats and Republicans trying to shape the narrative and control the story and, therefore, public opinion.