The Power of a Personal Story
The impact of story telling can lead to greater exposure for your company. Stories have the ability to arouse a reader’s emotions. Creating an emotional connection is extremely powerful since readers are then more likely to not only remember the story but share it with others. It’s public relations’ job to lend expertise that creates, […]
Communiqué PR Shares Industry Perspective with PRWeek and Workinpr.com!
Communiqué PR’s founders Jennifer Gehrt and Colleen Moffitt recently caught up with two PR-oriented publications, PRWeek and Workinpr.com. Editors spoke to Jennifer and Colleen about their perspective on current industry trends, best practices and how PR has changed over the past 15 -20 years. Check out the PRWeek article to learn about leveraging search engine […]
Leveraging the Blogosphere; Insights from CPR
Many companies struggle with how to respond to bloggers – let alone engage and interact with them. With more than 75 million blogs on just about every topic imaginable, it is overwhelming to think about monitoring and engaging bloggers. The key, like so many things in life, is focus. You need to figure out who […]
iamota Unveils iamota impact
iamota, a Mobile Application Service Provider (MASP) that helps agencies and brands of all sizes access, interact with and sell to mobile consumers, recently announced general availability of its first product, iamota impact. iamota impact is a Web 2.0-style, on-demand mobile service that allows users to quickly and easily create and launch their own campaigns, […]
The Importance of Preparing Before an Interview
A recent interview on Hardball provided a painful reminder on how important it is to prepare for a press interview. Texas state senator, Kirk Watson, was interviewed by Chris Matthews regarding his support for presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. When asked repeatedly to highlight some of Sen. Obama’s legislative accomplishments, Watson tried unsuccessfully to bridge […]
Beyond Your Good Name: How PR Can Leverage Reputation to Help Meet Business Objectives
We recently announced our fourth anniversary, marking the beginning of our fifth year in business. Since the firm’s founding in 2004, we have experienced tremendous growth, which can largely be attributed to our reputation of delivering stellar results and fostering great relationships. For example, stellar results and great relationships can be seen in the national […]
Mystery Game Entices All
Today Big Fish Games announced worldwide availability of Mystery Case Files (MCF): Madame Fate. Now, for those who are unfamiliar with Big Fish Games (the biggest fish in the casual games pond), the company develops family fun games, which can be played on home PCs or Macs. Although MCF: Madame Fate was launched exclusively at […]
Seattle Fosters Tech Entrepreneurship
Today’s article in the NY Times, ’Seattle Taps Its Inner Silicon Valley, was of interest to me as it highlights what has become very evident to those of us immersed in the technology industry here – Seattle is a hotbed for technology innovation and development. Author John Markoff touches on the impact companies such as […]
YouTube Videos; Effective Marketing Platform or Not?
Tom Trinneer, a friend and former client of Communiqué PR, suggested I blog about YouTube and how corporations are using videos to promote their images and achieve their business objectives. He also suggested I check out Microsoftís video to promote Microsoft Surface, below. Right away I was intrigued. Clearly, video can be a very effective […]
Social Networking Sites and Ad Revenue
This morning there is an article in the Wall Street Journal about social networking sites (Social Sites Don’t Deliver Big Ad Gains) and how the ad revenue from these sites has been disappointing. According to the WSJ, Facebook, Google and other players have been struggling to generate significant revenue from advertising. I found the article […]