The State of the News Media 2013
This week, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released its annual State of the News Media report. Not surprisingly, the findings were dismal for some traditional news outlets. Local TV ratings across the country saw a steep decline, losing 6.6 percent of their audience over the previous year. Readership at local newspapers […]
Five Crisis Communication Tips for Businesses: Lessons from Carnival Triumph
By now, you’ve likely heard about the Carnival Triumph debacle: In early February, the Carnival Triumph cruise ship was on day three of a four-day outing when a fire broke out in the engine room and the ship lost power, leaving passengers and crew members stranded on the stalled ship in the Gulf of Mexico. […]
How to Measure PR Impact
Does it make sense to measure impact? This was the subject of a recent article in Harvard Business Review. The article shares the stories of three organizations – Acumen Fund, Robin Hood Foundation, and Millennium Challenge Corporation – aiming to make a major impact on the lives of individuals, including reducing cases of malaria and […]
Push-Ups and PR: An Unlikely Comparison
At Communiqué PR we are on a quest to be the strongest PR agency in Seattle – in more ways than one. How? By challenging ourselves to do 100 consecutive push-ups, which we referenced in Monday’s post on sparking creative culture. For this challenge, we’re talking real, on-your-toes-not-on-your-knees push-ups. Our training began a few weeks […]
Sparking Creative Culture
We’ve all been there. It’s 3 p.m. and you’ve hit a wall. Your creative juices are no longer flowing and it seems like every sound, sight and smell is a distraction. But plodding through an eight-hour work day with no breaks doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll get more done. In fact, many studies suggest you […]
Four Services That Promise to Connect Businesses With Media
One of Communiqué PR’s major communications objectives for our clients is driving editorial coverage. Editorial coverage can help secure exposure for your client and provides a chance to engage with journalists, who can provide a third-party (often expert) opinion on what a client does. The tactics used to secure editorial coverage vary, but a few […]
The Forgotten Power of the Phone Call
We’ve all been there as PR professionals. You deliver a pitch to a reporter via email and then you…wait. And you wait a little more and then you send a follow up email. Still nothing. At this point, you realize you have to resort to a call down in hopes of capturing his or her […]
Social Media Replacing Traditional Media? Not so Fast, Says NASCAR
People who think they know me well are still stunned when they find out I am an auto-racing freak. I love NASCAR. I watch it most Sundays during the racing season and have since I lived in Virginia and followed Ricky Rudd’s no. 10 Tide car. (My family used Tide to wash our clothes. Ricky […]
Once Upon a Time – Storytelling for Business
The art of storytelling for business has been on the radar screen in recent years as a powerful tool for achieving success in the marketplace. With articles popping up from Fast Company, Forbes and Harvard Business Review, and a number of books published on the topic, there is no shortage of commentary on how storytelling […]
Five Ways to Use Muck Rack for PR
By now most people in marketing know that one the best tools for reading journalists’ minds is Twitter. The immediacy and brevity of Twitter almost seems to be designed for reporters who traditionally have been trained to think in sound bites, quotes and headlines. Now, with help of analytics, we are able to track how […]