Study Reveals Gaps Between the CEO and PR in Communications Goals, Issues and Technology
Usually, it’s wise to ensure your goals nest with your boss’ goals, especially when the boss is the CEO. But a new survey out of the Center for Public Relations at USC Annenberg shows that isn’t happening among some PR... Read More
The Top 10 PR Tech Vendors by Familiarity and Favorability
Press releases are the PR industry’s favorite punching bag. PR pros and reporters alike will criticize the excessive use of adverbs, adjectives and quotes that have little substance. The exercise of getting a release through reviews and approvals can take... Read More
Outperform: The Skim on 3 Credible Studies About the CMO [UML]
Whether you are a CMO or not, if your work is related to marketing, then the challenges and opportunities facing the CMO are also yours. This is true whether you are in-house or work for an agency. We all have... Read More
What do Public Relations Salary Ranges Look Like in 2019?
For the last four years, I’ve reviewed the annual public relations salary survey by PRWeek. The 2019 version is soon to be released and I perused the coverage to see what was new. Whether you are looking for a new... Read More
In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms
Nearly half of respondents (47%) in a recent survey of public relations pros found many are observing more PR work being taken in-house. In other words, corporate communications is adding headcount and work that used to go to outside PR... Read More
PR Measurement: A Pulse Check on How Communicators Show Value
Tying outcomes to communications have been a challenge for a long time. For example, in a traditional media relations setting, how do you know if a media mention is moving the needle on reputation? On leads? On sales? On votes?... Read More
Should Marketing Be Held to a Higher Standard? Off Script No. 38: Lacey Ford of insightsoftware
Revenue Driver. Pipeline builder. Marketing with a quota. Those are the words and phrases Lacey Ford uses to describe marketing today. She got her start as an entry-level marketing associate for SBC Communications, which is now AT&T. There she had... Read More
Corporate Communications is Taking More PR Work In-House, finds Survey; Media Relations Gets Even Harder
Corporate communications departments are taking more work in-house. It’s a trend that mirrors similar patterns seen broadly in the marketing for the last several years, where CMOs have slashed agencies in favor of in-house teams. Some 47% of respondents said... Read More
Breaking Down Current Trends in Influencer Marketing: 6 Takeaways from a Global Survey by Talkwalker
Influencer marketing has been around a while, but it’s largely shuffled along as an experiment. For a savvy company with smart relationship driven marketers, there’s an opportunity to cut through a very big problem today: noise and clutter. I define... Read More
Dispelling 6 Myths PR Sometimes has about Content Marketing
Some time ago I pitched a reporter, who was looking for sources, on social media for a client. The pitch was about a study they had done. The reporter responded she hadn’t seen the study yet and would review it.... Read More
