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A new report using analytics puts a numerical value on how brands react to PR crises. It also says the market predicts within five days whether or not a brand’s value will gain or decline based on how it reacts to crisis.
Each month we ask communicators to unload their toolkits and tell us what falls out. In other words, what technologies and tools do they find most effective as they do their job? This month we talk technology and tools with Tejas Totade, head of emerging technologies at Ruder Finn, and Andrew Cross, VP, PR, at WalkerSands. Totade says voice will be the next big business technology.
Their edited responses to our questions about technologies and tools they use at their business and how they’d improve them are below.
Last month in these pages there was a discussion of how quickly brands and organizations should react to PR crises. An immediate reaction is rarely advisable, although in situations where public safety is
This case study shows how health insurance provider AETNA is traversing the difficult terrain of regulation and still managing to mount a robust social media effort.
This month our regular roundtable feature asks senior communicators about how titles in the industry are changing and in what ways are communications teams reorganizing themselves.
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Each month we’ll be asking communicators to unload their toolkits and tell us what falls out. In other words, What do you use to do your job? There’s no better duo to begin this feature than Manu Muraro, founder of Your Social Team, and Danielle Brigida, national social media manager, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. We asked them what tools they use to bolster their Instagram feeds.
It’s far from a secret that Instagram is a visual channel. Still, some communicators use color palettes, grid layouts and themes to boost engagement on their Instagram feeds. For apartments.com AVP of social media Erica Campbell Byrum, color choice and layout are critical to crafting an Instagram personality that consumers will recognize and engage with at high rates.
Leave it to Cisco’s charismatic Carmen Collins to serve Southern-style sweet tea while explaining the sales funnel. Well, she doesn’t exactly serve sweet tea, but she describes how tea and the sales funnel have plenty in common. She also provides insight on using data to report your social media story to the C-suite. Drink up.
With Instagram boasting 800 million active monthly users and 80% of them following brands on the platform, we asked communicators for best practices for being successful on the graphic-based platform. They told us carefully picked influencers and attention to creating consistent visuals are critical.
Letters, digital or sent via U.S. mail, are likely to make direct contact with customers. It’s important, then, to be certain they reflect your brand’s well-crafted messages. We offer many tips on how to make such letters more effective, but most important is that they burnish your company’s reputation with all stakeholders.
Plenty of brands use video to disseminate their messages and raise awareness. But how do you do this when the primary parts of your message are almost invisible to the public? That was one of the issues facing the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science, which represents lab professionals.
Since 1857, Klein Tools has manufactured its product in the US. Recently, though, it’s expanded globally and begun producing tools overseas. Some of its US-based customers voiced their displeasure on social media about the company’s move to foreign manufacturing. Here’s a case study of how Klein Tools used videos to respond.
We often examine PR campaigns once they’re over as subjects for case studies. This time we take a slightly different route, looking at how a McDonald’s constructs a campaign whose goal is to attract the Hispanic market to its new Dollar Menu.
Richman Signature Properties became the new luxury division of The Richman Group , the nation’s 7th largest residential apartment owner. The Richman Group had been known only for developing affordable housing. Here’s how it ramped up its tactics and strategy to become a known entity in the highly saturated luxury apartment market.
The machinations on Capitol Hill and in the White House have provided a plethora of PR lessons. Yet there also is plenty to feast on beyond the Beltway. As examples we look at PR lessons from the NFL’s National Anthem case, the Weinstein scandal and Facebook’s about-face on Russian advertising and the 2016 presidential election.
Having just a few extra minutes to monitor a situation can mean the difference between good and bad crisis management. The so-called assessment moment is at the crux of a free report from PR News and DataMinr, a real-time information discovery company.
Technology: friend or foe? For global consumers polled by We Worldwide for its Brands in Motion 2018 survey, the answer is both. Consumers value technological innovation and want brands at the forefront, but they want this innovation to be balanced by regulation and ethics.
Is there an industry that’s changed more lately or received more attacks than media? With this background PR News surveyed more than 400 communicators about their views of media relations in this uncertain environment and beyond. In short, communicators believe media relations will continue to be an important part of PR, but to be successful they’ll need to adapt to how it has changed. It is unclear they’re prepared to do so.
Customers want personalized experiences, but brands, despite the plethora of technology available to them, are failing to provide them in a satisfactory way, a new survey from Accenture says. The key, it argues, is to guide consumers through experiences as opposed to dictating them.
eMarketer makes its predictions for global media spending, estimating rises for media spending overall and digital spending. N America will continue to lead spending, although Asia-Pacific will eclipse it around 2020, eMarketer says.
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