Why You should Generate Visual Content to Brand your Company

Relevant content and quality writing drives effective marketing, however, visual content is also crucial for building a lasting relationship with your customers. Today’s digital age demands better means to transfer messages. With the increase in the use of visual social media platforms such as Instagram and Pinterest, B2B marketers can grow their businesses faster than ever before. Both these tools provide endless opportunities for B2B marketing, as they are simple to use and are quickly becoming central to successful visual content marketing strategies.  

How to Avoid a Personal Crisis on Social Media

We are all part of the digital age, and use Facebook, Twitter and other social media to stay connected with our friends and family. However, as professionals, there is a fine line between our personal lives and our work lives when it comes to using social media and how we should conduct ourselves.

In Sarah Skerik’s article, 6 ways to avoid a personal PR crisis on social media, she presents helpful rules to remember that are often neglected. So before you send that tweet or update your status, run through this list to make sure you won’t have a personal PR crisis on your hands.

How To: Building your own Media List

Working in an industry where a lot of attention is focused on the media, it makes sense to have different media lists that you refer to when trying to get your companies information out.  However, what if your company doesn’t have the resources to access a professional database? To build a contact list, try using these tips by Jennifer Nichols in her article, 9 Ways to build your media list–for free.

4 Facebook Dos and Don’ts for Effective Public Relations

As a communications professional, it is hard to deny the tremendous impact that social media has had on our clients, campaigns and work methods. Facebook is one of the world’s largest social media platforms with an estimated 800 million users. Its reach has motivated companies and PR practitioners to incorporate or create digital media campaigns using Facebook in order to generate “likes,” create a community among consumers and prospects, and manage customer service needs. In the article, “4 Do’s and Don’ts of Using Facebook as a PR Tactic,” PRNews breaks down the best and worst ways to accomplish your Facebook goals.

Is your company ready to join Social media?

A growing number of companies are informing their target demographics and the general public of relevant news through social and digital media sites. If your company has yet to create a social media account and is hesitant to do so, you may have some great questions that you need answered before you join. Consider the below questions from Danielle M. Cyr, in 5 questions brands should ask before joining social media, before clicking that “sign up” button.

Body Language and Business: Six Tips To Connecting With Your Audience

A lot of professionals spend time diligently improving their written/verbal and organizational work abilities and sometimes overlook or fail to realize the importance of one’s body language. A person’s body language speaks volumes about his or her character, confidence, personality and even communication skills. In  “6 Things You Need To Know About Body Language,”  Brad Phillips lists tips that individuals should be aware of when interacting with others.

4 DIY Ways to Score More Media Coverage for Events

For many public relations practitioners, being able to effectively promote events through media is an integral skill. At one point, it was key for public relations practitioners to pitch events to the media for coverage. While the skill of pitching is still relevant, technology has allowed PR professionals to use tools like blogs, smartphones, online video and photo sharing to cover their own events. Arik Hanson of PR Daily speaks on “4 DIY Ways To Score More Media Coverage:”

Have Your Own Style

In this blog we’ve addressed AP style many times, however, one thing we’ve never really discussed is creating your own company style. Creating a style guide for your company is an important part of the branding process, because, believe it or not, there will be things your company deals with that may not be covered in the AP style guide.

A New Way to Brand Your Company, Using Video

Whether you are in PR or trying to come up with new ways to revamp your company’s website, one tool you should start becoming familiar with is a video camera. The use of video is an efficient and cost-effective way to help brand your company. Thanks to the help of social media sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, viral videos are being viewed at an increasingly high rate and are getting the attention of the general public.

The Latest Social Media Craze: Google+

Social media plays a significant role in our lives today and it continues to evolve. Therefore, we have to be up to speed with its latest and greatest features and how to use them. In recent weeks, it seems that every technology news site has posted articles about Google+.

Google + was launched on June 28, 2011 and is now one of Facebook’s biggest competitors. Because businesses are using social media to brand themselves, it may be a good idea for you to look into setting up an account with Google+. The site is currently at capacity for new users, but you can sign up to be notified when new users are added.  However, if you know someone who is currently on the site you can be  invited to sign up. Upon receiving an invitation, you can set up a business profile to start networking.