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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…
Katie Lambrecht
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…
Jean Hill
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…
Emma Larson
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…
Christine Scherping
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…
Elyse Bauchle
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…
Paul Maccabee
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…
Emma Larson
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….
Macca PR
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…
Paul Maccabee
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…
Paul Maccabee
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…
Emma Larson
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…
Christine Scherping
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…
Paul Maccabee
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….
Paul Maccabee
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?…
Paul Maccabee
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…
Jean Hill
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…
Paul Maccabee
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…
Paul Maccabee
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!…
Paul Maccabee
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…
Paul Maccabee
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…
Macca PR
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…
Macca PR
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…
Macca PR
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…
Christine Scherping
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…
Paul Maccabee
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…
Paul Maccabee
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,…
Macca PR
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…
Macca PR
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…
Paul Maccabee
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…
Paul Maccabee
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…
Paul Maccabee
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…
Paul Maccabee
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,…
Paul Maccabee
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…
Paul Maccabee
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…
Macca PR
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?
Paul Maccabee
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…
Macca PR
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…