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.
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.
Has your inbox started blowing up yet with emails from your favorite charities asking for your financial support? Between this week’s Giving Tuesday, next week’s Colorado Gives Day and year-end appeal campaigns, ’tis the season for Colorado’s nearly 20,000 registered nonprofit organizations to ask for your financial support.
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…
We’ve all heard the saying, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” But when is bad publicity really bad and when is it good?
Really, not all drama surrounding a company, brand or celebrity is bad…
There’s a category of products called “sin” products — things like beverage alcohol, casinos and now, in many states, recreational cannabis. (OK, admit it — you had no idea where that headline was going, did you?) While these products are legal, developing a communications plan — either proactive or reactive — requires a heightened focus on many critical issues…
This week the mother of all viral videos sucker-punched United Airlines. But that’s the nature of viral videos, right? They are unexpected in timing and subject matter. But how the brand handles it in the hours after is crucial to coming out on the other side…
Whether organizations want to believe it or not, government has a profound impact on the way business is conducted. As a result, almost every organization requires a government relations arm, but one of the most common questions I receive is “what exactly is government relations?” To me, government relations (GR) is about education…