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Evaluating the effectiveness of any communications program is essential – but too often agencies say it’s intangible – citing awareness and thought-leadership. In reality, if you know what success looks like before you start and create a campaign designed to achieve it, it’s easy to measure whether something is working. Here are a few tips:Continue Reading
PR & Marketing. In That Order.
PR always comes before marketing, but do you know why? Here’s our explanation of why it’s always PR & marketing – and not the other way around. Watch another THINK PR Espresso for help with PR, marketing and publicity strategy?
Disclosure and Transparency In Marketing
“Disclosure is overrated. Just assume everyone is being paid and enjoy the experience.” This is, perhaps, the most concerning statement about social media and the real-time internet. Here’s why! Watch another THINK PR Espresso for help with PR, marketing and publicity strategy?
Whose Context Is It Anyway?
Context is the most often forgotten part of any PR, marketing and publicity strategy. But it’s not yours that matters, it’s your audiences’. Watch another THINK PR Espresso for help with PR, marketing and publicity strategy?
Marketing Is 80:20
You know the 80:20 rule, right? 80 percent of your new business comes from 20 percent of your customer-base – so why do the majority of companies not spend the same proportion of their marketing energy, resources and budget on one-fifth of their customers and audience-base?
What Is Marketing?
Marketing is a term that is used widely but understood rarely. Marketing has 4 key components – 4 Ps: Product, Price, Place and Promotion. The majority of people that talk about marketing are only talking about promotion. Marketing communications is the use of a variety of tools & channels, including brochures, flyers, targeted adverts, socialContinue Reading
Startup and SmallBiz PR Basics
If you want an overview of the fundamental principles of PR for small businesses and startups this is worth a watch. It’s more than two and a half hours, but it explains the theory and practice behind successfully using public relations to deliver the right message to the right audience at the right time viaContinue Reading
The 4 Rs of Effective Public Relations & Marketing
At the end of last week I ran a session on the fundamentals of any startup public relations and marketing program. There are essentially four pillars that entrepreneurs must address in order for PR and marketing to add value to their new businesses – let’s call them the 4 Rs. The Right message The RightContinue Reading
The “Expert” Myth
I’ve written about this before, and I’m writing again because it’s important. It’s what I’m calling The Expert Myth. I hear almost every day that if you have a blog you are an expert in whatever topic you’re writing about – and nothing could be further from the truth. Just because you have a pointContinue Reading