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Learn HARO and ProfNet best practices and how to give your query the best chance at a response with our guest Allison Richard of Cision.

Guest:

Our episode guest is Allison Richard, opportunities manager of members and content at Cision. Allison has been in the industry since 2003 and started as the media research supervisor for Cision.

Changing your scheduled content can be best for your online PR plans 

Social media has given unprecedented power for companies to communicate directly with consumers. 

One way to fully take advantage of social media is to use scheduling features to have your content scheduled ahead of time. However, scheduling content ahead of time isn’t a panacea for how your company handles social media. Sometimes, you’ll have to cancel your scheduled content due to various situations that come up or risk immediate problems or missed opportunities. These situations can be either good or bad. 

So what situations should you cancel scheduled social media content for? There are three:

Three helpful tips on how to enhance your overall online user experience

It’s no secret that the key to running a successful business is to provide your customers with the ultimate online experience. Your website or app has the ability to make a lasting impression on a customer, so why not make it a positive one?

Before we can elaborate on how to boost your online user experience, we must first go over what user experience is. User experience is the feeling a customer gets after using a website, app, product, or service. Now, let’s go over how to give your users the best experience possible.

As a senior at Louisiana State University, Alannie Broussard accomplished many things during her time as a public relations student. She’s the student vice president of LSU’s Public Relations Student Society of America chapter and completed numerous PR internships. This includes helping the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank raise more than $5,000 via a social media campaign, 10 times more than the previous year’s amount.

And now, she’s the 2020-2021 recipient of the Axia Public Relations scholarship. 

It’s time to put the public back into public relations. Public relations is much more than media relations. It’s also social and web media. One of the more notable ways – especially in the eyes of the executive team, founders, and even employees – to share your company is celebrating your company’s anniversary milestone.

We aren’t talking about your third anniversary or 27th anniversary. Many companies make it to an initial milestone anniversary, and if you celebrate it, then you must find different ways to highlight you, your executive team, and your company and its accomplishments. Take it one step further and find ways to uniquely include the media, community, etc. When celebrating your company’s anniversary, don’t forget about employees, the community, vendors, suppliers, strategic partners, deserving nonprofit organizations that are strategically aligned with your industry, or products and services. 

Learn how human motivation impacts sales and how you can leverage it with our guest Darryl Salerno of Second Quadrant Solutions.

Guest:

Our episode guest is Darryl Salerno, president and CEO of Second Quadrant Solutions. He works with professional service companies to boost their market efficiency, competitiveness, processes, and management training programs.

Make sure your audience sees the best of your company on all platforms.

Content is vital in the world of online public relations, especially since it’s the cornerstone of all online PR efforts. Great content can elevate your company in a way that makes it just as powerful as classic public relations content, such as interviews or being a guest speaker at a major industry conference.

However, you need a place to put content somewhere, and that “somewhere” is platforms. Platforms can be social media websites like Facebook and Instagram or your own site. But trends can change, and platforms that looked like they had potential a few years ago can be dead in the water. This can cause problems, as users will be seeing old and out-of-date content that might not no longer reflect your company’s current views and stances, which can easily damper your online PR.

PR campaign to help large organizations vaccinate thousands for COVID-19

Health Hero, the nation’s largest on-site mobile mass vaccinator, selected Axia Public Relations to share its vaccination capabilities with America’s largest preauthorized injection companies and largest employers to inoculate COVID-19 as quickly as possible.

As pharmaceutical companies continue to race to bring their COVID-19 vaccine to market, Health Hero is gearing up to administer the vaccine to as many government agencies, large employers, and preauthorized injectors as possible. It desired a strategic public relations partner to guide its communications and position the company as the leader for COVID-19 mass vaccination capabilities.

Use scheduling to make your social media content reach the right people at the right time.

Social media is one of the cornerstones of online public relations. Its ability to reach so many people makes it a key component of any online public relations plan, no matter what platforms you intend to use. However, there’s one critical component companies starting their social media plans can overlook: the value of pre-scheduling their social media posts. 

It’s easy to simply post social media content once your team has developed it, but what really works is having content scheduled in a way that’s published at a great time and to have a backlog of content dating back weeks or even months so you’re fully prepared. There are plenty of tools that let you schedule social media content well in advance, both externally and offered by social media platforms.

Learn what you can be doing to increase your news release engagement and how you can use commercial newswires to your benefit with our guest Serena Ehrlich.

Guest:

Our episode guest is Serena Ehrlich, director of product marketing at Business Wire. She is responsible for Business Wire’s go-to-market marketing strategy, including initiating consumer discovery, supervising product releases, developing market-oriented content, and creating thought leadership initiatives.