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How Good is Your Digital Marketing Strategy – Part One?
How good is your digital marketing strategy? In today's post, Abbie Fink shares the first of three parts to a successful digital marketing campaign.
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Are Business Cards Still Relevant?
Here at HMA, we see the value of having printed business cards. In addition to sharing important contact details, a business card is a great place to jot down a few notes to remember your conversations. Read more from Marissa Baker.
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The Connection Between PR and ESG
Public relations initiatives that prioritize Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues have become a key to success for not only brand reputation and marketability, but for the planet as well.
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Is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion a Waste of Time?
The conversation of diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) has been around in the workplace for many years. Yet a recent survey from United Minds found that nearly 40 percent of C-Suite leaders say DE&I is a “waste” of time and resources. Read more from Abbie Fink.
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How to Use Clubhouse
After a year of being exclusively for iPhone users, Clubhouse has launched the popular app for Android users. Learn more from Autumn on how to navigate the app!
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#TipForTuesday – Becoming a Product of Productivity
After a year of working from home, this has become our normal. Those routines we set in place more than a year ago are no longer new. So what can you do when your productivity at work starts to decline?
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How Can Brands Build Trust for the New Normal?
With COVID-19 restrictions beginning to ease and vaccines becoming widely received, consumers are becoming increasingly comfortable resuming old habits and returning to a more public life. For brands and organizations, this creates an opportunity to build trust and reset previous views of your brand or organization. Read more from Autumn Jarrett.
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Associating Dogs With Products
Brands often associate themselves, either through community relations efforts or other less-subtle strategies and tactics, with causes connecting their company or brand culture to their customers’ values and interests. Is that why we are seeing so many pets, specifically dogs in advertisements?
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How Do You Create an Authentic Relationship With the Media?
How do you build a credible relationship with the media? Abbie Fink explores this question on this week's episode of Copper State of Mind. Click the link to listen now!
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#MediaMonday – Brent Ruffner
Today’s #MediaMonday is introducing us to Brent Ruffner, the Anthem reporter for Independent Newspapers. Learn more about him!
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Does Influencer Marketing Make Traditional Marketing Communications Obsolete?
Does influencer marketing make traditional marketing communications obsolete? No, it is just another tool in our toolbox and that’s the topic of this week’s Copper State of Mind podcast.
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Why Maintaining Good Body Language Is Important In Business
Body language is an important part of how you communicate from the firmness of your handshake to your posture. Hear more from Scott Hanson.
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