This is a continuation from last week’s post where I gave the reasoning behind getting your brand into fighting shape with content marketing. This installment gives you some concrete tips on how to begin flexing your muscles to get your brand more buff in the eyes of prospective clients. I recommend you follow three of […]
You hear a lot about content marketing these days from all quarters. Savvy marketers have long espoused the value of blogging for a brand. PR professionals are wringing their hands over the demise of traditional media and wondering how their story-telling skills translate into the click-through economy. Media owners are jumping on the content marketing […]
Blogs number in the hundreds of millions on the Internet, and there are millions of blog posts each and every day on platforms like WordPress, Tumblr, LiveJournals, Blogster. With such a massive number of blogs jockeying for attention on the Internet you would think that starting and running your own blog would be the equivalent […]
For many tech startups in Silicon Valley, and other tech hotspots like Austin, Boston and Seattle, the allure of getting into a popular tech media outlet like TechCrunch is too strong to pass up. In fact, when startup founders think about getting into the ‘news,’ it is often the implied target. And for good reason. With […]
Hiring the right PR agency to lead your communications initiative – both internal and external – can lead to many positive results for a business. From increased brand awareness and more website traffic to motivated employees and industry accolades, PR promotes the best of what a company represents, and even inspires others to rally to the brand. Hiring […]
Journalists I interview as part of my PR over Coffee community in Austin report having to sort through hundreds of emails daily – literally hundreds. On Mondays when they come back to the office that number often doubles. This means you have mere seconds to stop a journalist in his or her tracks in hopes […]
PR means a lot of things to a lot of people these days. For some, it means putting ads in newspapers. For others, PR involves social media and blogging. Others think of PR as placing quotes and securing interviews in print, online or TV news by “legitimate” reporters guided by an editorial staff. So who’s […]