The Public Relations Blog

Go from nuisance to news expert with tips from PR pros

You’ve prepared your best pitch and contacted media to get some positive news coverage. Now you sit in agony, waiting for the reporter to call you back. Should you call again or will that make you a pest and hurt your chances? This is the most common conundrum of media relations.

PR advice to help you determine which is right and how to prepare

Perhaps your company is in the midst of a crisis. Or maybe there is a major story breaking that involves your industry. Whatever the reason, members of the media are calling and clamoring for information from your company. Should you grant interviews? Hold a news conference? Or can you simply issue a statement?

Consider each phase of the buying cycle when planning your marketing and sales strategies.

From generating awareness of your brand to earning repeat purchases of your company’s product or services, it’s easier than ever to keep your brand front and center throughout the buying cycle. Here are some ways to ensure your brand stays at the forefront for prospects through every phase of the buying cycle.

3 tips to help you grow your business

Whether your business is a retailer or strictly B2B, generating good leads can help your company reach its goals by providing a way to engage and interact with prospective customers in the future. Using web strategies, generating leads is now easier than ever. Here are some tips to help in your lead-generation efforts.

3 key ways public relations and advertising differ in their benefits to a business

Those who aren’t working in public relations or advertising may not be familiar with what sets the two fields apart. While both are meant to help brands thrive, each has different roles. PR, achieved largely through earned media, helps build a brand by offering a level of authenticity that paid media advertisements cannot provide. Advertising helps support the brand by reiterating messages and graphics that help the public recognize the brand and its benefits.

This is one story on the value of blogging. Read how 5 reasons blogging is important, why you should care about blogging, 3 overlooked reasons to blog, why blogging is worth it, and how blogging can attract customers for more.

Bring more customers to your door with this important device

Webinars … branded newsrooms … social media management. There are plenty of public relations tools and tactics to help your business grow. One of the most effective is blogging.

If your company is not actively blogging on a regular basis, then you are ignoring a vital opportunity to raise awareness of your brand. In this post, you will learn more about the benefits of blogging and how it can make your PR efforts more successful.

Improve your web presence with these 4 tips

You rely on your information technology folks to create your website and make it fast and easy to use. But how do you make it rewarding, creative and profitable? That takes public relations.

No need to dread if you plan ahead

While many crises are unpredictable, that’s no excuse not to plan ahead. We find that most companies are not prepared for a crisis; therefore, they don’t know how to react when one occurs.

PR explains what you need to know

Should you monitor the social media activity of your employees? Is it necessary to check out the social media accounts of prospective employees?

This is one story on the value of blogging. Read how it can improve your PR efforts, why you should care about blogging, 3 overlooked reasons to blog, why blogging is worth it, and how blogging can attract customers for more.

Creating content is one of the most important tasks inbound marketers handle. There are myriad kinds of content you can create to engage your customers. For example: e-books, social media posts, infographics, videos and blog posts, to name a few. Blogging is one of the most important of these.