The Top 10 Communications Challenges in 2022: It’s not the Budget it’s the Clutter
Budget used to be among the top communications challenges, but it’s slid down the list every year for the past five; comms budgets don’t show up as a problem until #8 and garnered just 13% of the votes from respondents....Read More
Why It’s Important to Maintain Marketing and PR Budgets in a Recession
Think of the economy as a networking room. When times are good that room is crowded, loud and noisy. It’s hard to communicate. When the economy goes south, that room goes quiet which offers a marked advantage for businesses that...Read More
3 Keys to Running Successful Internal M&A Comms Campaigns [Guest Post]
Leaders should plan and execute comms around M&A with the same level of detail as any other marketing campaign or business initiative writes Dwayne Alicie in this guest post Communicating during mergers and acquisitions can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t...Read More
The News May Be Recycling Much of its Content; Implications for PR and Content Marketing
Amid layoffs and closures stemming from the pandemic, news organizations are republishing political content leaving less time and space for business news Survey data shows media relations keeps getting harder, but now there’s a new analysis of content being published...Read More
The Meaning of Staying “On Message”
Staying “on message” is about staying on meaning. It’s not about word choice. There are many ways to say hello that carry the same message. The purpose of messaging is to help a business speak with focus, cohesion and consistency....Read More
Why You Should Absolutely, Positively NOT Cut Your Marketing and PR Budget Right Now
Product launches and marketing campaigns are getting delayed. That’s probably not a surprise – you’ve probably experienced this yourself – but Econsultancy has put some numbers to it: “A survey of more than 2,200 marketers conducted by Econsultancy and Marketing...Read More
A Modestly Contrarian View of External B2B Comms about Coronavirus (Covid-19) that Borrows a Few Ideas from Military Planners
Contrary to traditional PR wisdom to over-communicate in a crisis, businesses should identify thresholds for publishing external or client comms about Coronavirus The military has well-defined etiquette for radio network traffic. When you have a TIC – troops in contact...Read More
3 Reasons to take the 2020 JOTW Comms Survey
What do you think the top challenges facing communications and PR professionals today? What tactics would do you think are more important this year? How do you measure PR results? These are just a few of the questions on the...Read More
The Benefit of Calculated Risk in Public Relations
There is a long-running joke in public relations (PR) circles, that it takes more time and effort to get press release through the approval process than it does to write one in the first place. Unfortunately, after going through such...Read More
The Complicated Business of Mixing Brand and Politics [Survey]
It’s very difficult to escape politics these days. Political messages have permeated every possible medium from the mailbox to social media and everywhere in-between. Most of it is shouting, and there is very little listening. That’s the backdrop for brands...Read More
