For the Love of Blog: Don’t Forget to Include Blogging in Your 2018 Plan
Speaking from experience, blogging can sometimes seem like a daunting task. Finding topics that your readers will view as interesting is challenging and then developing them into posts that maintain someone’s attention and adds value can sometimes feel nearly impossible. However, blogging is an impactful tool that provides a platform to highlight results, share perspectives […]
A Place for Mom: A Wealth of Information on Senior Living & Related Topics
As 2017 rapidly comes to a close, we want to share a summary of some of the coverage we helped position for A Place for Mom throughout the year. For those interested in the issues surrounding senior living, this roundup offers a sense of the topics that attracted the most significant attention of journalists and […]
Building Motivation as a Learned Skill
Recently I began reading Charles Duhigg’s book, Smarter Faster Better, about how to be more productive in life and business. The first chapter focuses on motivation, which is important because motivation is often the driving force or reason that people strive to reach a goal, endeavor towards personal success or work to solve a problem. […]
Supporting Delta-Q Charge the Lithium Battery Industry
For nearly four years, Communiqué PR has been working with Delta-Q Technologies (Delta-Q) to help achieve its communications objectives and raise awareness of its battery-charging solutions for electric-drive vehicles and machines. From industrial floor cleaners to sport and utility vehicles, Delta-Q continues to transform the battery-charging market by providing solutions that allow original equipment manufacturers […]
Measuring the Value of PR
In our data-driven world, it’s a challenge to show dollar-for-dollar the value of PR as it is a bit less tangible than other services. Ultimately all clients want to know whether the money, time and energy that went into a campaign changed consumer behavior and, more importantly, generated profit. To prove your campaign’s ROI, you […]
Does AI Have a Future in PR?
Digiday recently posted an article uncovering how artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into PR. Newspapers such as the Associated Press and Washington Post are already using AI to develop earnings reports and write articles that don’t require dedicated reporters. How will this affect PR professionals? Can we begin to realistically and effectively incorporate […]
Don’t Eat the Marshmallow! And Other Lessons From Harvard
September typically marks the return to school for children all over the country, but earlier this summer I had the opportunity to pack up my notebooks and pencils and head off to Harvard for a leadership workshop with Communiqué PR’s management team. The session, “Managing Yourself and Leading Others” was packed into a solid two […]
Cision’s Six Tips for Building an Enterprise Social Media Plan
Would you believe it if you heard that nearly 11 percent of most marketing budgets are dedicated to social media? How about if you heard that among Fortune 500 companies, nearly 98 percent rely on social media for a combination of public relations, marketing, and customer service and industry insights? While these statistics alone are […]
Tips for Managing a Large Volume of Email
For many young adults entering the professional workforce, the ability to successfully manage email can be daunting. If not correctly managed, important emails can wind up at the bottom of one’s inbox, which may lead to a late reply or missed opportunity. Managers, business partners, and customers also expect people to master email because so […]
Cision’s Five Truths of Modern Media Targeting
If you subscribe to HARO (Help a Reporter Out) queries, you’re likely familiar with the format of these email alerts. If you are not, welcome to the world of HARO – a great database for journalists and PR professionals with a number of sources for upcoming stories and opportunities to secure media coverage for clients. HARO […]