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Public relations and marketing fundamentals are well-defined. Each discipline has an academically-accepted system; whether Grunig & Hunt’s models of public relations, Culliton and Borden’s Marketing Mix, McCarthy’s 4Ps made famous by Kotler, or Bernays systems for propaganda (later renamed public relations). What has not been done is to develop a single system thatContinue Reading
From Business Model Innovation To Go-To-Marketing
Re-thinking Corporate Communications Departments One of the biggest challenges for organizations is breaking down the silos between communications and other business functions. Within communications, there is also the challenge of identifying the role each discipline plays and the remit of each in relation to the others. The Lean Communications Periodic Table™, Framework™ and Methodology™Continue Reading
A New Integrated Communications Measurement Stack
The Repetition Myth of Public Relations
There’s a myth started by the public relations industry that the more you repeat something the more credible it becomes. But, is it true? That’s the topic of today’s THINK Public Relations Espresso. Watch another THINK PR Espresso for help with PR, marketing and publicity strategy? AUTHOR DETAILS Lyndon Johnson is the founder andContinue Reading
What Is Positioning?
Positioning is a challenge for every small business. It is especially difficult when both the competition and prospective customer are large organizations. Effective positioning in these situations is about focusing on the value you can offer that a larger organization cannot. Small businesses also have the advantage of being flexible, in terms of approach, modelContinue Reading
What Is Engagement?
Engagement comes up in almost every conversation about PR, marketing and publicity, yet very few people are able to define it, how you measure it, or the value it delivers to an organization. What it’s not is an exchange on twitter or Facebook or shared content because you have asked them to. Engagement is theContinue Reading
Why Bad Content Makes PR More Important
There’s been an article doing the rounds suggesting that content marketing could kill PR When you read the piece, the point being made by +Christopher Penn is that bad content could damage the effectiveness of media relationships because journalists won’t like being pitched bad content. I’m not justifying it but, trust me, journalists are usedContinue Reading
What’s The Difference Between A Press Release & A News Release
It’s very simple. A press release is about distributing a single piece of information to as large an audience as possible, via the media. A news release is about communicating news to an identified audience. What’s the difference between information and news? That will be the topic for tomorrow’s PR espresso. Continue Reading
What Is Content Marketing
Content marketing is the latest buzzword, but in reality, it’s nothing new! It’s just marketing that uses content as the delivery mechanism for the call to action. AUTHOR DETAILS Lyndon Johnson is the founder and general manager of COMMS.BAR™. COMMS.BAR provides early-stage companies with right size, right time communications strategy advice toContinue Reading
How To Build Relationship With Journalists
Are you paying a PR company for pitching services, or are they helping you to build relationships with journalists? If it’s the former, these tips will help you to do the latter AUTHOR DETAILS Lyndon Johnson is the founder and general manager of COMMS.BAR™. COMMS.BAR provides early-stage companies with right size, rightContinue Reading