TRAVEL PR: Are You Giving People Enough Reason to Escape? When it comes to travel marketing there is only one thing you\’re truly marketing and that is the idea of escape. How you market such an ethereal yet exhilarating concept is everything. It has to be more than just chocolates and a nice bottle of …
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Strategy and tactics go together like beer and barbecue, peanut butter and jelly, spandex and disco. Strategy and tactics are besties out of the gate. You need both to achieve marketing and PR success. The difference is small but crucial, so here\’s the definition of both: Strategy: A long-term plan designed to achieve an overall aim. …
WRAPPING UP THE PR & MARKETING YEAR AND PLANNING AHEAD How do you wrap up your business year and start planning for next year’s marketing and public relations campaigns? I’d say give yourself a break and start with your successes. Celebrate the positives and aim to improve upon the negatives. Many people start with where …
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WHAT IS YOUR MILLENNIAL SALES STRATEGY? One of the largest concerns in the PR, marketing, and advertising sectors today is how to reach millennials, anticipate millennial shopping behavior, and ultimately take advantage of one of the most potentially lucrative portions of consumers out there. The only problem is that there is more data and less …
Before you hire a publicist, you really need to know what to ask them in order to make a good decision. Sometimes, the person in charge of the hiring decision has little or no experience with public relations or marketing teams (which is normal, and hence they have a need to hire one). We\’ve …
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The press release has been around for almost as long as printed media itself. Done well, this tried-and-tested technique is an essential tool for journalists and can generate large amounts of publicity for relatively little cost. However, the sheer number of releases distributed every day means competition for journalists\’ attention is fierce. So what can …
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5 KEY REASON FOR ENTREPRENEURS AND BUSINESSES TO OUTSOURCE THEIR PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MARKETING Outsourcing your Public Relations and Marketing is an essential aspect of driving your business forward. Sometimes it needs an objective eye to tell your story well and with conviction. However innovative and successful your company, it\’s unlikely that customers will …
THREE BASIC ESSENTIALS ABOUT PR YOU NEED TO KNOW IT\’S ABOUT NEWS People ask me all the time, what is PR? In a nutshell, it\’s about news. Yes, it\’s about other things but public relations is news. That\’s what drives it. Literally, it\’s the word \’new\’ with an \’s\’. If it\’s new it makes news, …
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TEN REASONS YOUR COMPANY NEEDS A PUBLICIST NOW MORE THAN EVER Indisputably, news about your company impacts your potential customers infinitely more than advertising – and far more cost effectively. You want it to be positive, timely and accurate news. So why does your business need a publicist now more than ever? Here are ten reasons …
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IN PRAISE OF HIGH STANDARDS IN JOURNALISM AND PR At Black Ink PR we work with clarity, conviction, courage and we always value high standards. Working with integrity is at the foundation of what we do. I absolutely love my profession, and one of my greatest joys is working with dedicated journalists and …
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