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Best Practices for Effective Online Reviews Management

If you’re in brand marketing, word-of-mouth, internet search results, and paid advertising are all well-known forms of consumer communications. But you may also have a…

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What Every Communicator Must Consider During this Heated Election Season

Have you heard? The 2024 election season is upon us! Democratically and positively, all Americans have the opportunity to make our voices heard as we…

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Olympic-Level Influencer Marketing: How Visa, Skims, Adidas and Reese’s Scored Big at the 2024 Games

The 2024 Paris Olympics weren’t just about athletes chasing gold; they were also a stage for brands to compete for marketing glory. As digital platforms…

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Brand Partnerships Unwrapped: The 4 Influencer Trends Every CPG Marketer Must Understand Now

Influencer and brand partnerships are nothing new  — witness such recent high-profile influencer and brand partnerships from Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Tom Brady partnering…

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LinkedIn Insights from Social Media Marketing World 2024: 3 Secrets to Increasing Your LinkedIn Engagement

Why is it vital that you – and the company you work for – understand how to effectively use LinkedIn as far more than a…

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Secrets of Building An Irresistible Employer Brand: The Nicole Garrison Interview

How can you build a powerhouse employer brand that transforms your company into an irresistible “Best Place To Work” magnet? What steps should you take…

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Influencer Marketing Trends You Must Be Ready For In 2024 – Part 1

As brand marketers and corporate communications professionals dive into 2024, we’re already contemplating what lies ahead for the year, particularly in the realm of influencer…

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5 Experiential Trends Every Brand Marketer Must Know For 2024 

Over a year ago, I was surrounded by flames. Although, not in any life-threatening or crisis communications way that a typical PR professional might anticipate….

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5 Media Training Lessons From the Disastrous Testimony of MIT, Harvard And UPenn Presidents

When the presidents of MIT, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania agreed to testify before Congress last December about the antisemitism engulfing their campuses, they…

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Predictions and Warnings for Marketers Seeking to Survive and Thrive in 2023

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” said my favorite philosopher, Yogi Berra. So what can you as a marketing and corporate communications…

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Inside the Influencer’s Perspective — What Marketers Can Learn From The 2022 HAVEN Influencer Conference

As I touched down in Atlanta recently, I was excited to join over 500+ influencers and notable brands such as Ryobi, Home Depot, and BEHR…

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Three Brand Lessons From CES 2022: Turning Your Conference Lemons into Lemonade

We all saw the headlines from Las Vegas. Leading brands from Intel and AT&T to Facebook’s Meta and General Motors dropped out ahead of the…

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Six Social Media Secrets From Life Time and Noom’s Online Marketing Gurus

Let’s admit it: we had a blast watching two of Minnesota’s most celebrated social media experts – Christina Milanowski, associate director of social media for…

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Content Marketing Secrets of General Mills and Land O’ Lakes

Major brands across America – from Spotify, Wells Fargo and Ikea to Chobani, Mayo Clinic and HBO – are embracing the power of content marketing….

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Food Marketers Master Class: Five Delicious Post-Pandemic Tips To Promote Food Products (and Beyond!)

What should every food & beverage marketer know now about product publicity, new digital tools and influencer marketing to drive sales in a post-pandemic marketplace?…

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Doubling Down on Content Marketing: Advice from Best-Selling Author, Joe Pulizzi

Any presentation that includes bar charts made with milk chocolate pieces has to be good, right? That was surely the case when our public relations…

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9 Social Media Trends Every Marketer Must Know For 2021: A Conversation with Arik Hanson

From TikTok, LinkedIn and Twitter to Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook – if you’re in marketing, you’re eager to predict how your brand can more effectively…

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Nine Marketing Secrets of Houdini and Other Master Magicians

Apple’s Steve Jobs, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla’s Elon Musk, best-selling authors Seth Godin or Malcolm Gladwell, who are the business gurus that have inspired you? As…

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6 Ways to Score a Broadcast Interview in the Midst of COVID-19

Has anything changed with how PR pros and corporate communicators should approach TV and radio producers during this COVID-19 pandemic and economic meltdown? Ohhh—heavens, yes!…

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B2B Marketing During a Pandemic Crisis: An Interview with Chris Schermer

If you’re a B2B marketer, right about now you’re frantically testing which marketing strategies will help get you through the worst economic catastrophe since the…

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Back to the Workplace: Best Practices for COVID-19 Internal Communications [Part Two]

With over 50% of employees fearful of contracting COVID-19 upon returning to the workplace, effective internal communications must go beyond addressing the safety procedures being…

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Back to the Workplace: Best Practices for COVID-19 Internal Communications [Part One]

In the wake of COVID-19, your employees are experiencing a wide range of emotions: fear, angst, stress, anxiety and even anger. As employers explore what…

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Pandemic Communications: Cutting Through The Noise

During a global pandemic and economic crisis, what is the impact of your brand communications? Do you ramp up messaging to stay in touch with…

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Virtual Events 101: How To Transition Your In-Person Panel To A Digital Platform

Maccabee dives deeper into the topics of virtual events during our Sharper Angle digital event series. Watch the recording here for more insights into transitioning…

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Burger King’s Moldy Whopper: The Future Of ‘Viral Marketing’ In A Post- Coronavirus World?

It’s impossible to forget the first time you saw Burger King’s “Moldy Whopper” spot – a 45-second time-lapse video of a mold-infested Whopper that was…

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4 Lessons Marketers Can Learn From That Creepy Peloton Ad

Will anyone be able to look at a $2,000 Peloton bicycle again with a straight face or, inspired by the actress featured in Peloton’s widely-maligned…

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How To Build A Successful Social Media Strategy: Why Great Content Alone Isn’t Enough

As marketers, we’ve all heard that “content is king.” Perhaps you’ve even made content creation and distribution a core part of your marketing strategy. So,…

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5 Lessons Marketers Can Learn from the Popeyes/Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich Twitter Wars

Marketing and PR professionals marveled at how Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen turned an online duel with rival Chick-fil-A into $65 million in “free” advertising this past…

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5 Tips to Design Highly-Effective Corporate Social Responsibility Campaigns

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) campaigns are on the rise as brands explore how they can stand out in a crowded, noisy marketplace, position themselves apart…

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Secrets of getting your company featured on a podcast: behind the scenes in podcast nation

How can marketers like you get your CEO or brand spokesperson interviewed on a podcast that’s heard by tens of thousands, or even millions, of…

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Six tips for marketers on how to host a successful influencer relations event

If you walked by the Quincy Street Kitchen in Minneapolis a few weeks ago, you’d have seen guests enjoying dinner featuring Armenian holiday grilled chicken…

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11 LESSONS MARKETERS CAN LEARN FROM FIJI WATER’S GOLDEN GLOBES PHOTOBOMBING

Who was the most photographed and talked about person at the 2019 Golden Globe Awards? Canadian model Kelleth Cuthbert, who was hired by Fiji Water…

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5 Ways to infuriate journalists with your online newsroom

Is your online newsroom a warm and welcoming haven for the media who are vital to the success of your company? Is it an easily-navigable,…

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How Clients Can Get Their PR Agency To Love Them (And Why Clients Should Care!)

Does your PR agency love you? No really, do they absolutely adore working for your company? Does your PR agency explode with joy when they…

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Is Your Social Media Voice Helping Or Hurting Your Brand?

“We don’t want brands talking at us as if we are dollar signs,” warns Kevan Lee, director of marketing for the social media publishing company…

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PR War Stories: Preparing Your CEO to Testify Before Congress

Which would your CEO rather do: testify before hostile members of Congress under oath or be hung by their toes over a blazing Hibachi grill?

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6 Awesome Examples of Leveraging Corporate History in Brand Storytelling

You’re scrolling through Facebook and your past posts – with images recalling a five-year-old inside joke, best friend’s wedding, or favorite family vacation at the…

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Become Epic with Content Marketing: Interview with author Joe Pulizzi

When a game-changing marketing strategy has been embraced by such global brands as Coca-Cola, Lego, General Mills, Zappos, Sherwin Williams, Ford, Google, Procter & Gamble…

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