Best Practices
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Branding/Marketing
Setting Your 2025 Budget? Here’s Why PR Is a Necessity
It’s a scenario we’ve seen many times: companies slash PR and lose valuable momentum, only to spend even more time and money clawing back out of their attention deficit when the economy or their market sector comes roaring back.
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Conversations
Marketers on Fire: Chinese Laundry CMO on Celebrity Fanbases and the Taylor Swift Effect
How Chinese Laundry capitalized on the “Taylor Swift Effect” by using small budget solutions, creative marketing, deep references and perseverance.
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Social
Three Tips for Successful Marketing in Taboo Industries
While marketing around taboo topics like sexual wellness, body hair grooming, cannabis and alcohol has its difficulties (particularly on social media), there are plenty of strategies brands operating in provocative categories can implement to see success. Here are three tips.
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Branding/Marketing
The CMO Role Is Evolving Yet Again
The CMO role is evolving—yet again. Tim Ringel, Global CEO of Meet the People, details ways the most effective CMOs are increasing their job tenure, despite the ever expanding list of responsibilities tied to the position.
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Media Relations
PR Roundup: IPR Media Relations Report, Substack Lures More Journalists, Messaging Tips During Election Season
This week’s roundup looks at an IPR report on adapting to new media relations strategies, the Substack journalist trend and Kennedy Institute advice on messaging during an election season.
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Branding/Marketing
Creative Minds Working Together Enhance Social Impact Communications
At Advertising Week New York 2024, The Female Quotient, a business committed to equality in the workplace, hosted a panel conversation, “Unlocking Power of Social Impact Campaigns.”
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: Helping Journos, Port Strike Messaging, CEO News and Readers
This week’s PR Roundup looks at the difficulties journalists are facing after the devastation of Hurricane Helene and how PR folks can help, what business communicators can learn from the port strike and Memo’s latest study on messaging while your organization’s leadership turns over.
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Digital & Technology
Media Outlets to PR Pros: Pitch Multi-platform, Social-Friendly and Niche Storytelling
It is imperative for PR pros to ensure that the essence of their story is flexible enough to work across multiple platforms while maintaining a compelling core message.
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Crisis Management
How to Handle an Influencer-Born Crisis
PRNEWS spoke to Alyson Buck of Samsung Electronics America on how to plan in advance for influencer crises and how brands should respond if one occurs.
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Brands on Fire
Brands on Fire: Stanley’s Chief Brand Officer Talks College Campus Tour, Ambassador Program and Product Innovation
We spoke with Graham Nearn, Chief Brand Officer at Stanley, about the campaign’s goals, student ambassador strategy, product innovation and the 113-year-old brand’s approach to tapping into culture by creating relevance.