The Top PR Challenges and Tips for Overcoming Them
According to the Annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020, the top PR challenges are: 1. ROI and proving value 2. Educating executives 3. Cutting through the clutter 4. PR budgets 5. Ever-expanding duties 6. A protracted review and approval process...Read More
All Marketing is NOT Content Marketing
Content marketing could quite possibly be the most misunderstood concept in marketing today. Most confuse content marketing as synonymous with content, which is a solid way to make sure your content marketing program underperforms, or worse, fails. Even experienced marketers...Read More
The Real Message Behind “No Reply” Emails from Businesses
Messages and effective messaging that influence outcomes isn’t just a matter of arranging words in a proper order, it’s a combination of interdependent factors that determine how well a message will be received. For example, what we say, how we...Read More
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Your Marketing Predecessor was Probably a Hot Mess [UML]
Six months into a year-long tour in 2007, the unit I was supporting in Iraq, was going home – but not before a short period of overlap with the replacements. That period lasted one or two weeks, providing for a...Read More
The Ability to Focus is Becoming an Essential Marketing Skill
Focus is becoming an essential marketing skill. Amid the many distractions facing knowledge workers, the ability to concentrate has become increasingly complicated. We seem to have lost both focus and the ability to foster it. We lost focus to the...Read More
The Steep Mental Exercise of Child’s Hill
The team was undefeated but race with a formidable opponent was coming up soon. The opposition has the “home field” advantage in that the next cross country meet would be held in their town, on their 3.1-mile course, of which...Read More
Warren Buffet Underscores the Value of Reputation
It may be hard to quantify the value of a reputation but it sure is meaningful when one of the world’s most prominent financiers says it’s important. Reputation was a key message billionaire Warren Buffet conveyed in “biennial” memo to...Read More
Internal Communications Lessons from a PayPal Fiasco
Good initiative, bad judgment. That’s how I’d characterize PayPal President David Marcus’ message to PayPal employees leaked to VentureBeat. His note can be summarized by his final paragraph as posted by the same publication: “In closing, if you are one...Read More
10 Leadership Tips for 1:1 Meetings with Employees
The military places an enormous emphasis on “counseling” — 1:1 meetings between leaders and subordinates that define the tasks, conditions and standards. That is to say clearly defining the job to be done, the conditions in which those tasks will...Read More
How to get executive buy-in for social media
by Frank Strong Social media may be maturing, but there’s still a whole lot of companies out there that aren’t on board yet. This means that getting senior leadership’s support of social media engagement is still a challenge for some marketing...Read More
