by Alan S. Morrison | Jul 20, 2020 | advertising, communications, copywriting, marketing, PR, public relations, Sales, stakeholder management
In last week’s blog, I wrote about the second step in the AIDA model of advertising, Interest. This week it’s the turn of Desire. By this point you’ve honked the car horn at your target person, they’ve turned their head and you’ve got them interested in the idea of...
by Alan S. Morrison | Jul 14, 2020 | brand awarness, communications, marketing, PR, public relations, Social media, stakeholder management, Strategy
In last week’s blog, I wrote about how the many ways to increase brand awareness among your target audience. This week I’m going to take that a step further by talking about how to get their interest. The reason is that getting their attention, one of the things you...
by Alan S. Morrison | Jul 8, 2020 | brand awarness, communications, marketing, PR, public relations, Social media
As I’m a great advocate of the marketing maxim that you should ask your audience what they want, to decide the topic of this blog I ran a poll on LinkedIn. So, here’s how to increase your brand awareness! I’ll break them down into the PESO types of media as is best...
by Alan S. Morrison | Jul 1, 2020 | communications, Covid-19, customer service, marketing, PR, public relations, reputation, Reputation management, stakeholder management
Managing expectations is a key part of effective stakeholder and reputation management because it’s about building and maintaining trust for a long-term constructive relationship. In his 1999 business autobiography Direct from Dell, Michael Dell says one of his key...
by Alan S. Morrison | Jun 23, 2020 | communications, Covid-19, customer service, Management, marketing, PR, public relations, reputation, Reputation management, Sales, Strategy, Trust
The existential fear created by the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown has generated a retreat to trusted brands according to Survata research quoted by Search Engine Land. This isn’t surprising. Most of us react to a threat we can’t challenge by retreating to...
by Alan S. Morrison | Jun 21, 2020 | communications, Covid-19, marketing, PR, public relations, reputation, Reputation management, stakeholder management, Trust
There’s a huge and increasingly-urgent debate taking place between governments and businesses still locked down because of Covid-19 over the ‘social distance’ they’ll have to operate when they can reopen. Pubs, restaurants and others types of businesses have been...
