The Public Relations Blog

Your practical guide to distinguishing real news from fake news

For most of us, social media has become the top source for news. How do you know if you can trust news in social media? Here are three proven criteria to ensure that your social media newsfeed is trustworthy.

How to maximize your PR efforts by using local focus

Many large corporations come across the same challenge: how to tailor their marketing and PR strategies to local audiences. Corporations with offices in multiple locations should be sure they take into consideration local trends. Here are three fundamental steps to enhance your local PR strategy.

4 reasons a PR partner may be good for you

In the world of social media in 2017, you have to be all in. Effective social media includes a robust content strategy, a regular drumbeat of content and conversation and ongoing conversation monitoring. It can be a full-time job for someone at a small company. At a large corporation, it can require a whole team of professionals.

Diversify your PR strategy for multiple locations to get the best ROI

When your company is growing, it’s both exciting and challenging. With the right public relations strategy in place, you can avoid the complications that often come with expanding and make the most of your growth. Here are four fundamental ways to use PR to manage marketing for multiple locations.

Why you need both and how to use each for maximum advantage

For hundreds of years, the news media has been informing the world about events and changes that affect our lives. In the last decade, social media has come along to give people news in real time; it can distribute information worldwide in a matter of minutes. So, which one is more influential? And what does each mean for your business?

Turn leads into customers by inspiring and motivating them

You have plenty of visitors come to your website each month. Now, what do you want them to do once they’re there? Getting visitors to your website is only half the battle. It takes the right content to move a prospect from lead to customer. That requires public relations.

From Rolls-Royce and Tesla to Fresh Market and Krispy Kreme, many of the best brands have proven they don't need advertising. Consumers buy from these corporations because of the experiences they offer and because of the quality of their products. Less successful companies think they need advertising to get customers, but the best brands use their products, reputations and stories to attract customers. That's called public relations.

Engage with the right audience to become an expert in your field

Influencer marketing is a form of marketing where you build relationships with powerful people in your industry, thus creating visibility for your product or service. This approach focuses on individual people who can influence many other people far better than any advertising or content marketing you can produce. The audience sees these influencers as trusted sources of information. If you and the influencer are a good fit, some of his or her followers might join your audience as well.

3 ways Macy’s effectively handled its Black Friday virtual traffic jam

According to data collected by Adobe Digital Insights, Black Friday sales hit a record $3.34 billion in e-commerce. This marked the first time sales surpassed $3 billion. Successful companies know they must provide an optimum online shopping experience for consumers (75 percent of worldwide shoppers will abandon a company’s site if it’s buggy, slow or prone to crashes) and that includes preparing months in advance for the busiest shopping days of the year.

Let PR guide you on the road from attraction to conversion with the right tools at the right time

You blog, send emails and craft the best content and calls to action for your website. But are you using all the tools available? Are you making good use of them at the right time?