With 2020 in full swing, companies across industries have already finalized budgets and set their goals for the year ahead. Even if your organization hasn’t yet considered its public relations and marketing plans for 2020, it’s never too late to understand where your strategy lies and how to sharpen it in the year ahead.
The most popular means of distributing press releases to news media and other outlets, there are numerous options for publishing a press release through a wire distribution service. How do you choose the best one for your needs?
It doesn’t matter how disruptive your product or service is, how much it will improve people’s lives and the world at large or how effective the message is if you don’t have a way to find the right journalists, influencers and other members of the media with accurate and up-to-date contact details.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Jan. 6, 2019 — BizWest, the multichannel business news journal serving northern Colorado and the Boulder Valley, and MAPRagency, one of the region’s most prominent, trusted public relations, digital marketing and creative services agencies, today announced a partnership to form a Custom Content Studio (CCS) to leverage the combined strength of customized content, native advertising and an established, long-standing audience.
With options ranging from free online options to enterprise-level managed services, media monitoring solutions can be as basic or as advanced as you need. Today’s media monitoring is technologically advanced — machine learning tools, sophisticated algorithms and powerful processors are used to track, organize and bring mentions together from across the entire media landscape. But with numerous options out there claiming to be the best and most comprehensive, it can be difficult to figure out where to begin.
From market forecasts to tech trends and more, every company has a “what’s to come” story to tell. Although attempting to tie your company’s message into this seemingly annual tradition is certainly a sound strategy, publications are often bombarded by competitors offering similar stories. To drive the optimal results for your organization, how can you make sure your prediction piece stands out?
Mistakes happen all of the time. And in the world of public relations, the ever-evolving digital media landscape magnifies errors made by companies across industry sectors. From misguided campaigns and jokes made in poor taste to downright incompetence, PR fails can significantly damage any company’s reputation, and the ensuing public outrage can impact your organization’s…
Would you like to hear a joke? OK, well, I can’t remember how it starts, but the punchline is “he eats chutes and leaves.”
In today’s online world, blogging has taken on increased importance as everyone from Fortune 500 companies to small-town mom-and-pop shops seek to expand their digital reach and ultimately improve their bottom line. After initially serving as an online venue for folks to share their feelings, thoughts and opinions to their followers, blogging has grown immensely…
Oh, the typos you’ll see — even on the best websites. While advances in technology have opened the door to a number of improvements that make our lives easier and more simple, some of these technological breakthroughs have made us lazier.