According to the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), public relations is “a strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics.” Further explaining public relations, PRSA says that “public relations is about influencing, engaging and building a relationship with key stakeholders across a myriad of platforms in order to…
One tactic that can be very effective in obtaining media coverage for your company or client is conducting what’s called a newsmaker survey, and then pitching the survey results to reporters for potential news stories. To illustrate this tactic, I’ll share with you a campaign that I worked on at Thrivent Financial. Even though Thrivent…
Everyone knows that retail needs to transform to survive — but what does the store of the future look like? At a recent Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association event at Rocket55, retail consultant Chris Walton described the store of the future as “one hell of a swingers party.” Walton explained his analogy by sharing who…
The Minnesota Search Engine Marketing Association (MnSearch) announced today it has appointed its first female president, Jolina Pettice. As president, Pettice will help underscore the importance of gender diversity in marketing tech, and aims to inspire other women to get involved in this community. With Huffington Post citing 2017 as “Year of Women” and on…
While this year’s Minnesota Search Engine Marketing Association (MnSearch) Summit didn’t feature Rand Fishkin, the nearly 400 attendees were treated to another outstanding keynote speaker with a Moz connection: Cyrus Shepard, founder of Fazillion. Shepard, the former director of audience development at Moz, wowed the crowd with his personal harrowing story of fighting giardia and…
To millions, Tylenol is an effective over-the-counter pain reliever. In public relations circles, however, the 1982 Tylenol recall represents the epitome of crisis communications. At that time, Tylenol was a very important product to its manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson. Tylenol represented 33 percent of the company’s year-to-year profit growth and outsold the next four leading…
By Danijela Krstic A group of approximately 50 public relations professionals gathered at a recent Minnesota PRSA event hosted by Exponent PR in downtown Minneapolis to hear a panel of experts speak about their experiences with food marketing and communications. The diverse panel featured four experts from different areas of the food industry: Kieran…
Now that we’ve wrapped up a blog series on when to do media relations, let’s take a look at measuring media relations success. As measuring media relations isn’t an exact science, communicators often have debated appropriate metrics. Some don’t quite cut it, such as advertising equivalency and the use of multipliers. So in 2010,…
By Danijela Krstic Commonly known across the marketing world are the “four Ps” of marketing, or the marketing mix. They consist of products (or services), the price of those products, promotion, and place (distribution). While advertising has a very clear place in the promotion part of the marketing mix, the role of public relations can…
By Kate Makowski Good leadership. Though usually necessary to a thriving work environment, it is often undervalued and hard to define. Solving the issue of inadequate or absent leadership is tricky. In many cases, a team lacking leadership may not even know what types of leadership tactics best suit their needs, or they don’t know how…