The Public Relations Blog

Keep your brand strong by avoiding these mistakes

Building a strong, positive reputation for your company is important and takes time. Creating a well-known, recognizable brand doesn’t happen overnight. Surprisingly, most companies don’t know how to manage their PR, so they make mistakes, which leads to a weak or negative reputation. That’s what you and your company want to avoid.

Since we have a good idea of the StoryBrand BrandScript framework, it is imperative to get an idea of the BrandScript in action.

The explanatory paragraph is the BrandScript in a much longer and well-written form. It is a section that’s typically used on a company’s website to provide more information on the company.

The customer, who is the hero, has a natural concern to get an idea of who his guide is. Therefore, the explanatory paragraph for a moment sheds some light on the company by providing more details to the brand story.

12 essentials for traveling professionals and road warriors

When working in the PR profession, it’s safe to say you’ll probably have to travel at some point in your career. All the items we recommend are highly rated, and if you use the links provided, we receive a small percentage of the sale. Here’s a list of items that are essential when working on the go: 

Professional associations can be a huge help to your personal development and your company

Things are going well for your company; you’re getting clients and making money. But have you started networking?

Are you connecting with others in your industry? If not, your company might be stagnating, and you don’t even know it.

Why? If you’re not networking, you’re not building relationships with others in your field, which increases your risk of falling behind on the latest trends and new techniques. Not networking also limits the avenues in which you can improve yourself.

Asking “Is Now The Right Time to Buy PR Services?” is a common and reasonable question

The best PR results come long-term. 

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” – Warren Buffett

Therefore, it's important not to wait too long to start a PR campaign. The first step is to select a PR agency, and don’t hire a PR firm too quickly. 

First, you must decide to either do nothing, do it yourself, or hire someone. Hopefully, you opt to hire an expert. 

And it's less expensive to hire a PR firm than to staff a PR department. Our research-based app proves it.

Let's explore the pros and cons.

When handled appropriately, PR crises can help your company in the long run.

There’s a cliché that “there’s no such thing as bad publicity.”

While I’m not a fan of that statement nor that corporate communications strategists are the same as publicists, here’s some proof that (even bad) PR works.

Previously, we’ve covered that you cannot guarantee earned media coverage. Anyone that attempts to offer you guaranteed results for public relations, much less guaranteed earned media coverage, is someone you don’t want to work with as a client since there are no guarantees in public relations. But, is there something you, as the client, can offer as a guarantee?

What gender-neutral communications look like

An integral part of public relations is respect: respect for your customers, your audience, and the community you serve. One of the simplest ways to show your respect is to use someone’s correct pronouns. Misgendering an individual not only shows your lack of interest, but it can deeply hurt the person you are referring to. 

So with that in mind, what does pronoun use look like in public relations?

Axia’s 60-Second Impact

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April 2021 – Use Emotional and Functional Marketing to Connect With Your Audience

March Madness is a time for brackets, upsets, and Cinderella stories. It’s also an opportunity to connect with your audience on a truly visceral level. We’ll look at strategies that help your team capitalize on all the action right alongside your brand’s community.

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.