Prediction 2014: The Year of Social Media Advertising
by Frank Strong eMarketer says 90% of marketers will use social media marketing in 2014. In this case marketing increasingly means paid social media advertising. In summary the publication writes: Call 2014 the year of “social acceptance.” More marketers are...Read More
Would You Outsource Your Native Ads?
by Frank Strong Media outlets are hiring writers that are not journalists. Instead these writers are hired to write advertisements, which are designed to look like news stories, for advertisers. So reported Michael Sebastian in an AdAge article titled: Who’s...Read More
No, PR Does Not Look More Like Advertising
PR Daily ran an opinion piece that said, the PR industry today looks an awful lot like advertising. Why does it look like this, according to the author? Because, with social media, blogs and even press releases, PR is going...Read More
Is Yelp the New Front Page?
About a month ago I needed to get my carpets cleaned. As is instinctive with so many consumers these days, I turned to Google to find a professional carpet cleaner. The first organic search result was from a review on...Read More
Why PR Should Embrace Content Marketing
PR should embrace content marketing. If there’s one trend that has reached a tipping point in PR — it is content marketing. Content marketing is a perfect blend of SEO and social media for the online marketing mix. But for...Read More
PR Strategy: Paid Media Tactics for Earning Media
Advertising offers great message control but questionable credibility. PR offers credibility through third party validation, but there are no message guarantees. As an industry, we love to look at these separately to compare and contrast, but a better value is looking at...Read More
6 Creative PR Ideas for Blended Media
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” -Darwin In marketing and public relations, creativity is often more art than science. One way to get ideas is to...Read More
Seven Creative PR Ideas
Creativity can do well to help get a message out. Creative PR carries risk as there’s always a chance the idea will flop, or worse attract negative attention. A good way to brainstorm for new ideas and to see what has worked...Read More
Spun Up: Why Traditional Media Still Matters
by Frank Strong PR spin? It’s spun up! Claire Cain Miller’s article in The New York Times, Spinning the Web: P.R in Silicon Valley, ignited the blogosphere this week. Just last night, in catching up on my reading, it seemed I couldn’t...Read More
