IABC Webinar Recap: The 2020 JOTW Communication Survey Review
The IABC Heritage Region recently hosted Ned Lundquist and I for a webinar. We presented a sampling of the findings – along with analysis – from the 3rd Annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020. The full report is more than...Read More
Media Relations Keeps Getting Harder; Here are 6 Dynamic Techniques to Adapt
75% of PR and comms pros say media relations is getting harder – up 25% over three years; here are some practical techniques for adapting A majority of public relations and communications professionals say media relations keeps getting harder. Three-quarters...Read More
Partisan Politics Complicates PR and Comms for Business, Survey Finds
72% of communications professionals say partisan politics makes their job harder, according to third annual JOTW Communications Survey for 2020 The majority of professional communicators say partisan politics has complicated communications for brands and businesses. Some 72% of professionals believe...Read More
Journalists Love Twitter, and if Your Job is Media Relations, You Should too
Most PR professionals seem to agree that media relations just gets harder every year. In 2018, 51% of respondents said media relations is getting harder, according to the annual JOTW Communications Survey, that I’ve partnered with Ned Lundquist and Ned’s...Read More
Be Relevant: 21 Media Relations Insights From 3 Surveys Polling 3,000+ Journalists [UML]
Of all the media relations insights the best one is this: be relevant. These three studies polled 3,000 journalists and their answers all center on relevance. I’d do a considerable amount of blogging. Occasionally, I’ll use the service Help a...Read More
10 PR Tips for Making Your Company Easier to Cover
Better organize your announcements and media contacts, make the “news” easy to find and stick to business etiquette; pro PR tips About a year ago I started writing a monthly summary of PR technology news. The idea grew out a...Read More
Sorry, Press Releases Do Not Help Your SEO Anymore
Lately, I’ve noticed several opinion pieces circulating in blogs espousing the SEO benefits of press releases. However, there is virtually no SEO benefit to press releases, and there hasn’t been in a long time. It used to be that you’d...Read More
An Eclectic but Intriguing Mix of 32 Statistics that Summarize Public Relations and Marketing in 2019
I review a lot of marketing studies and surveys – and write about the one I think will be helpful for readers. For the last few years, I go back through every post and pull out the most interesting statistics...Read More
30 Pragmatic Marketing and PR Predictions for 2020
Predictions reflect facts, experience, and often a bit of hope for the future. Even pessimistic predictions are hopeful. It’s as if by saying it out loud, we’ll ward off an undesirable outcome. As I’ve done in recent years, I’ve asked...Read More
PR Tech Briefing: How Cision Impact is Bringing Earned Media Attribution and Retargeting to Public Relations
A short while back I wrote about the new retargeting capability Cision is delivering to PR based on who is reading your coverage. The retargeting builds on the company’s efforts to deliver attribution. Attribution is the ability to understand who...Read More
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