How Starbucks Leverages Social Media to Build its Brand
Communiqué PR attended a Puget Sound American Marketing Association (PSAMA) event on Wed., Nov. 11 entitled, “Building Brand with Social Media: How Starbucks does it and what they’ll do next.” The speaker, Brad Nelson, principal tweeter for the @Starbucks Twitter handle, previously worked for Starbucks as a barista before joining the company’s marketing team. Interestingly, […]
The New Rules of Media Relations; Have They Really Changed?
I recently participated in a webinar hosted by PRWeek surrounding the new rules of media relations. We all know that the media landscape has changed with publications shutting down or moving to online formats. But interestingly, the rise of social media, namely Twitter, has really changed the playing field in how media source their content […]
Strategic Public Relations Excerpt: Picking your PR Team Wisely
As organizations continue to experience budget constraints due to the existing economic conditions, you may be tasked with re-evaluating your PR team as you plan for 2010. One of the most daunting questions you may encounter is whether to go with an in-house PR team, an external PR agency or a combination of the two. […]
Cision Launches JournalistTweets.com
Are you looking for a tool to make it easier to follow journalists on Twitter? Cision, a global provider of media monitoring, media research, distribution and media evaluation PR software and services, recently released a new relationship-building tool for PR professionals and journalists called JournalistTweets. I have spent some time using this tool and found […]
New FTC Guidelines Impact Social Media
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced it has finalized revisions to its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials. The new guidelines, which will go into effect on December 1, 2009, provide an outline of rules governing advertising endorsements and testimonials, and apply to consumer-generated media, such as blogs and social networking sites. […]
The Rise of the ’Social Internet and Social Media Law
Last week, I had the opportunity to co-present with Lisa T. Oratz of Perkins Coie at Law Seminars International’s Social Media Law workshop. We were the final presenters of the day-long workshop focused on new legal issues arising from social media marketing. Lisa and I discussed the practical and legal considerations for businesses when engaging […]
SWOT Analysis
A SWOT analysis is a tool utilized by many marketers and public relations professionals to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of a business project or campaign. We recently completed a SWOT analysis for a potential client to evaluate the company’s past public relations efforts and where we see room for improvement. SWOT analyses […]
Twitterphoria: Adding Twitter Power to Your Marketing Mix, Today
It was such an honor and pleasure to speak to a sell-out crowd at the Puget Sound American Marketing Association (PSAMA) Luncheon last Wed., Sept. 9. My presentation entitled, “Twitterphoria: Adding Twitter Power to Your Marketing Mix, Today”, was well received with approximately 150 people in attendance. According to one of the PSAMA board members, […]
Twitter User Statistics
eMarketer recently released a report from Sysomos on the demographics and usage habits of Twitter users. Sysomos is the leading provider of social media analytics. According to the report titled “An In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World,” 72.5 percent of all Twitter users joined the service in the first five months of this year. Some […]
Social Media Falls Mostly to PR
We recently ran across a PRWeek article about social media and digital communications. The article provides some interesting statistics about digital communications from the 2009 Digital Readiness Report from iPressroom, Korn/Ferry International and PRSA including: PR leads digital communications at 51 percent of organizations, while marketing leads 40.5 percent of the time PR generally leads […]