A lot of companies tend to see only two options for PR around the holidays: holiday story lines and New Year trends. While these may be the perfect recipe for a good holiday PR campaign, it’s time companies think outside the box. As noted in my blog post last year “Tips for Successful Holiday Campaigns”, [...]
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For this week’s blog, I asked longtime PR pro, Staci Busby, to share her insights on crisis communications, a very important topic that inevitably must be faced by all companies and their communicators. With more than 20 years working in corporate, non-profit and agency environments, Staci Busby is an accredited Public Relations Counselor who has [...] Quality not quantity. We’re all familiar with the principle and know it’s a proven discipline in so many aspects of life. So why should this be any different in the new world of social marketing and PR 2.0. Well it’s not. Let’s face it, as good as it may feel having a lot of people [...]
Jessica Johannes I asked a long time colleague, Jessica Johannes, a communications pro with more than 15 years of progressive experience in communications, public relations and marketing for Fortune 500 technology companies, to share her insights on the importance of media training for executives. Her background includes extensive experience developing hard-hitting, creative global communications programs [...] In my last blog post, “The ABCs of Industry Analyst Briefings”, we looked at some of the key fundamentals for successfully briefing industry analysts. Today I bring you bonus tips to add to the list of best practices you can adopt to ensure your company is putting its best foot forward in its analyst relations [...] Briefing technology industry analysts is a learned art rather than a formulaic science. The main objective is to connect with the analysts so they understand your company and solution enough to describe it accurately to others. Some of these “others” include journalists and potential customers who may subscribe to an analyst service. While this objective [...] In 2009, we saw a lot of “innovative”, cost-cutting PR strategies — however, many companies may have cut corners to the point of potentially compromising the basics of a sound program. As stated by Naylor Gray, Frost and Sullivan Director of Global Marketing, in a recent Businessweek article, ”with recovery expected to take hold in [...] |
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