Comments from K2 Global Communications

Whether your story is truly newsworthy and worthy of press coverage isn’t just your call.

Topics: Journalist, News story, News value, Timeliness, Press coverage, Local story

This basically comes down to an exercise in empathy.

Put yourselves in a journalist’s place. Your email box is flooded. You’ve got the pressures of staying abreast of key players in your markets while having to absorb the importance of new products and companies.

Most importantly, you’ve got deadlines.

Topics: Journalist, Press coverage, Marketing, Valuation

So, you are getting ready to hire your PR team. (We're hoping it's us, of course.) No matter what, here are some tips that will help maximize the relationship.

Topics: Public relations, Journalist, News value, Press coverage, Content marketing

 

 

Build your brand - By effectively using an orchestrated outreach strategy, such as PESO® (created by Gini Dietrich), across all channels, marketers will extend the reach and increase the overall effectiveness of their efforts, boosting both brand loyalty and revenue.

Topics: Journalist, Press coverage, Content marketing, Content, Marketing, Metrics, Social media, Brand, Audience, Corporate communications, Client relations, PESO, Earned media, Shared media, Owned media

Topics: Public relations, Media resources, Press coverage, Blog, Israel

We've been supporting clients at trade shows since DRUPA in 2004 and our first RSA in 2008 and MWC in 2009. That’s all after my many years as a trade show exhibition manager.

Here's how K2 can provide you with the critical assistance you need for a successful trade show:

• Trade show evaluation – Some industries have more than 20 conferences from which to choose. We can help you decide which events will give you the most ROI, from the major show that you need to be at to "be seen" to the smaller events that directly reach your targeted audiences. 

• Speaking opportunity application process – We can work with your team to brainstorm and write a compelling application that will get you in front of the conference decision-makers.

Topics: Press coverage, Media coverage, Media, Trade show, Conferences

Once upon a time, I covered trade shows as a market analyst for a major consumer publication.  Shortly thereafter I flipped to the other side of the desk and ended up with a press conference on one side of the Consumer Electronics Show and a photo shoot clear across the exhibition hall.  Let’s just say that roller skates were very much on my mind by the time I finished my dash back and forth across the crowded exhibit halls.

I empathize with journalists who have been given the immense task of covering trade shows, scouting for new trends, and trying to maintain relationships with industry leaders. That is why when I have a client exhibiting, I try to be a resource to media covering the show by helping them identify my clients’ product introductions long before the show, setting up interviews or, better still, pre-show interviews to save journalist’s precious time, jet-lagged exhaustion, and, especially, their shoe leather.

Here are some pointers for being a resource to media at your next trade show:

Topics: Public relations, Journalist, News story, News value, Media resources, Press coverage, Press release, Media coverage, Trade show

Whether you want to hear it or not, In the age of AI, person-to-person communications are as important as ever. Everyone at any organization can become a content generating powerhouse, using AI to “write” post after post, blog after blog, article after article. Of course, all this content needs to be reviewed by great editors – since AI writing is bland and repetitive - but that’s another blog…

Topics: Public relations, Press coverage, Media coverage, Media, PR, AI

Recently, I spoke with a marketer who had used ChatGPT to revise some content he created; it initially performed in its "regular" way - writing the idea clearly, but being quite redundant. Of course, he had to tweak the prompt to ask it to vary the word choice. Once it did that, it incorrectly stated that the product did X and Y as a single feature. He had then had to "teach it" that those were two separate activities until it provided decent results.

What if he were in a hurry or didn't know enough about the product to understand that the AI created an error that wasn't there before?

Topics: Public relations, Journalist, News story, News value, Timeliness, Media resources, Press coverage, Press release, Media coverage, Media, Brand

 

 

Public relations isn’t just media relations anymore

Public relations and advertising used to live in two different realms, with a solid wall separating paid media -- paid placements like advertising -- and earned media -- publicity gained through valuable content contributions, company mentions, or interviews with journalists.

Topics: Journalist, Press coverage, Content marketing, Audience, Award, Corporate communications, Client relations