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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.

A quick guide on how to get your audience begging for more tweets

It can be challenging to come up with creative content to grab your audience’s attention in 280 characters or less. But with the right content posted, it can make all the difference for your company’s success. 

Here are three simple ways to post unique content that will have your audience itching to see what you post next: 

Axia’s 60-Second Impact

60 Seconds of Information Impacting You and Your Fast-Forward Economy

March 2021 – Keep Your PR Team Running Like A John Deere in 2021 and Beyond

Top companies are realizing the benefits of diversity in both operations and workforce on a massive scale with the pandemic continuing to alter daily life. Embrace variety to create more engagement, better retention, and a more positive personal outlook.

Interest, attract, and persuade your audience by using a call to action.

If you’re on social media, you’ve probably encountered the words “buy now” or “click here” while scrolling through your feed. This is called a CTA, also known as a call-to-action. 

A CTA is a strategy that many companies use to entice and influence its audience into performing an act that will benefit their business. A CTA should be short, sweet, and straight to the point.

For a more in-depth explanation of CTAs and why they’re significant, read more from this blog post.

See that? That’s how you use a call-to-action.

“What we’ve got to do is help people prioritize and realize that great PR, great marketing comes from a big idea.”

O’Dwyer’s PR Report featured Axia Public Relations’ CEO and Managing Partner Jason Mudd in its video series PR’s Top Pros Talk. Jason spoke about improving brainstorming sessions and adapting ideation sessions from an office environment to a remote one. 

Everyone has creativity in them, and not everyone knows how to unlock it. For some, creativity comes naturally. For others, it takes a while for it to emerge. And how, exactly, do you reach your full potential with creativity? And what about in the remote environment?

Learn why the word “storytellers” can have a negative connotation for PR pros with our guest Chris Chiames of Carnival Cruise Line.

Guest:

Our episode guest is Chris Chiames, chief communications officer at Carnival Cruise Line.

Topic:

The one with Chris Chiames of Carnival Cruise Line on PR pros as storytellers vs. conversationalists

Three strategies to earning more consistent leads

Are you happy with the leads your construction company is generating? Is your phone ringing as much as you would like? Are your recent sales contributing significantly to the overall growth of your company? There is no shortage of reasons why your answers may be “no.”

It is highly probable that COVID-19 caused a dramatic drop in your consumer demands as people scramble to adjust to the new normal. However, there’s also another possibility many companies are guilty of: Your digital marketing strategies are not up to par.

Just like investing in construction revenue protection to ensure your company stays protected and profitable, it is also crucial that you invest money in digital marketing if you want to remain competitive and relevant. 

A guide to avoiding bad meetings

As Dave Grady mentions in his TED Talk, there’s a global epidemic called MAS, which stands for “mindless accept syndrome.” A symptom of this is, in Grady’s words, “an involuntary reflex in which a person accepts a meeting invitation without even thinking why.” All jokes aside, the subject of the TED Talk is something PR professionals should take into consideration. 

Many of us subconsciously accept invitations to meetings without even asking what the meeting is about. No one wants to sit in a meeting for hours without knowing what the game plan is, especially if we have other projects to work on and deadlines to meet.

Learn how newsrooms post stories and content on their websites and what to expect when your story goes live with our host, Jason Mudd. Jason is the managing partner of Axia Public Relations.

Guest:

Jason Mudd, On Top of PR host, helps companies get on Undercover Boss. He is a trusted adviser and dynamic strategist for some of America’s most admired brands. Since 1994, he’s worked with American Airlines, Budweiser, Dave & Buster’s, H&R Block, Hilton, HP, Miller Lite, New York Life, Pizza Hut, Southern Comfort, and Verizon. He founded Axia Public Relations in July 2002.

Topic: 

The one with Jason Mudd on understanding a news outlet’s website.

Is society more connected, or are we more connected to our devices?

Although Chuck Nice’s TED talk on the unintended consequences of technology is comedic, the topic is serious and something all PR pros should think about. Recent technology, more specifically social media, has had some unpredicted consequences on society. Technology was supposed to be the futuristic invention to bring us together, and we succeeded in that — but not in the way we imagined.