Marketing Craftmanship

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Avoid the Carnival Barker Approach to Publicity

Marketing Craftmanship

Other than a pile of press clippings or some online content for their website’s “In the News” section, business owners are hard-pressed to draw a connection between their publicity campaign and tangible business results, such as lead generation or increased revenue.

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Is Your Web Content a Marketing Liability?

Marketing Craftmanship

For a host of political and practical reasons, inappropriate and ineffective web content gets posted; sorely outdated content is granted lifetime tenure; and assorted layers of information…in WORD documents, PDFs, YouTube videos, podcasts, webinars…all obscure the company’s core messages and brand positioning goals.

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The Herb Schmertz Era: When Public Relations Had Some Balls

Marketing Craftmanship

The Mobil advertorials eventually were published weekly in several leading daily newspapers over the course of three decades, and serve as the template for what the PR profession now calls thought leadership. Herb Schmertz was no reckless PR cowboy.