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5 Ways to Establish Yourself as a Thought Leader

What’s the fun in knowledge if you can’t share it with others? A thought leader – a trusted source, in PR parlance – shares what they know, what they think, and what they believe in with other people. A good way to help develop your career is to develop yourself as a valuable expert in […]

Let Your Brand Decide: Journalist, Influencer, or Both

In recent years we have seen a rise in the number of blogs and social networks that include Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. Consequently, brands have experienced a flood of both positive and negative opinions coming from user reviews and online word-of-mouth messaging. This should come as no surprise considering it is an age-old fact that […]

How to Combine LinkedIn Company Accounts Without Losing Followers

Having a strong brand on social media is important not only for a company, but also for the user who is trying to learn more about the services it provides. If a company has multiple accounts on one social media platform it can cause confusion. Many times someone who is foreign to an organization will […]

Does Your Organization Need a Spokesperson?

Many organizations struggle with the idea of a identifying and preparing a company spokesperson. For some companies, there is a clear spokesperson that naturally assumes the role, enjoys it, and is good at it. However, for many organizations the spokesperson is not identified until an event, such as a crisis, forces someone into the role. […]

5 Steps to Soliciting Meaningful Feedback

In order to successfully meet clients’ communications and business objectives, PR pros rely on ongoing feedback from a multitude of parties, and they need to be strategic at eliciting that feedback to refine their PR strategies and tactics. I recently read an insightful article in the Harvard Business Review entitled “How to Get the Feedback […]

Storytelling: The Power of Persuading an Audience

I would like to share with you a recent article I read about effective persuasion by Lisa Lai, an advisor, consultant and coach for some of the world’s most successful leaders. Lai argues that in order to persuade an audience you must focus on either winning their hearts or their minds – and that to […]

Uber-Cool Creative Campaigns

Perhaps one of the most enjoyable tactics in the PR and marketing tool bag is the creative campaign. We’ve all seen brilliant examples of well-produced, creative brand campaigns which lead to massive brand awareness and adoption. Possibly the most successful creative campaign in recent history is “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like,” conceived by […]

Should Your Next Pitch Target an Algorithm Rather Than a Human?

With just one month left in the quarter, corporate earnings season is right around the corner and chances are the next quarterly earnings article you read will not be written by a business reporter, but by automation software. In 2014, The Associated Press (AP) began using a platform called Wordsmith to automate the writing of […]

Branding the Most Important Product: You

Recently, Mashable pulled together a group of brand experts to conduct a Twitter chat focused on strengthening your personal brand.  A full summary of the questions and answers posed by @mashbusiness can be found here.  After my own review of the feedback from the experts, I came to three overarching ideas that can stand as […]