Best Practices
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Branding/Marketing
How To Optimize Success at Your First Trade Show With a Client
Incorporating trade shows into your broader marketing strategy offers invaluable opportunities to elevate your clients’ visibility, credibility and market presence. Here are several strategies you should consider implementing to ensure your next trade show is a success for both you and your client.
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Crisis Management
Diddy’s Apology Disaster: 4 Lessons in What Not to Do
The internet is fuming with criticism over Diddy’s recent apology for physically abusing his ex-girlfriend. The apology, awkwardly timed after video evidence surfaced, reads more like a self-help infomercial than a genuine expression of remorse.
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Branding/Marketing
Finding PR and Community on Reddit
PRNEWS spoke to Parry Headrick, Founder of Crackle PR about his Reddit AMA experience, as well as Alistair Berry, moderator for the r/publicrelations subreddit.
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Crisis Management
PR Roundup: KC Kicker Misses, So Many Dicks, Oreo Dominance
This week’s PR Roundup looks at KC Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker going viral for conservative speech, e.l.f. Beauty’s commitment to DEI with a blatant campaign and the reigning social media snack champion.
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Media Relations
Three Must-Haves in Your Next Press Release
What goes into creating a press release that will generate interest from journalists?
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Crisis Management
Starbucks’s PR Blunder: Blaming Customers Equals Trouble
What compounds the problem and leads to the worst kind of viral media coverage is company leadership shirking accountability by saying sales dropped due to impatient Starbucks customers.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Commencement Crisis, Boy Scouts Rebrand, Media Consumption Habits
This week’s PR Roundup looks at Higher Education’s current commencement and communication crisis, the rebranding of the Boy Scouts and a new survey on media consumption habits of Washington, D.C. policy insiders.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
PR Strategies for Olympics Sponsors Battling Negative Media Coverage
There are many lessons that brand sponsors of this year’s Summer Olympics should have learned from the previous Games. And just because it’s a celebrated global event, brands should not let their guard down in regards to reputation and bad press.
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Crisis Management
Learning from Roku’s Breach Communication Shortcomings
In some ways, the breaches at Roku are unremarkable. These types of incidents happen so frequently, we’ve become immune to their scale. But that doesn’t mean companies can be complacent in their communication with customers, employees, partners, media and regulators.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: World Press Freedom Day, Mother’s Day Opt Out, Comms Not Prepped for Election
In this week’s PR Roundup we learn about supporting journalists, inclusive communications regarding Mother’s Day, and if communicators are already prepping messaging strategies for the 2024 election.