6 Tips For Writing an Effective Press Release
You may ask whether press releases are still relevant. Cision, a leading press release distribution system, reports press releases boost content downloads by 250 percent and increase search visibility by 50 percent. And every day, news media around the globe read...
How to Become a Thought Leader through Blogging
You didn’t get to where you are by accident. You worked hard, you put in the time, and you gained experience to be in the position you’re in today. And along the way, you’ve become an expert, a thought leader. As Thought Leadership Lab says, you are “the informed...
The Power of Press Release Distribution
One of the most effective ways to get your message to the media is creating and distributing a press release. Right now, 81 percent of senior marketers believe earned media has more of a positive impact than paid media. With the help of Cision, TSN Communications has...
3 Steps For an Effective Social Media Marketing Plan
Social media has become more than sharing photos and keeping up with people you haven’t since college. In recent years, we saw Facebook become a tech giant with the power to shape opinions and influence events, and witnessed how Instagram can influence what people buy...
What Newsrooms are Looking For
Having spent more than a decade in newsrooms, I know it can be tough to get a journalist’s attention. Thanks to social media, the news cycle moves quicker than ever before and newsrooms ask more of their journalists than they did 15 years ago — and even five years...
Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn: Which Platform is Right for You?
A question we often hear from small business owners is, “Which social media platform is right for me?” It’s a great question for those trying to determine where they should spend their time on social media marketing efforts. To get the answer, we need to dig a little...
3 Benefits of Market Research
As businesses and organizations begin to implement their 2020 goals, we recommend turning attention to your target audience. One way to do that: market research. Market research not only helps your brand, but it helps your bottom line. It allows you to get to know...
Harnessing the Power of Media Relations
I love my job. I get to work with not one, but two great teams – my TSN Communications coworkers, of course, but also my journalist colleagues.I worked as a journalist for 12 years before getting into marketing communications and PR, and thus I feel like I know...
The Fifth Dimension of Your Communications Plan
As a council member for a public university, I recently went through an exercise of “dream, design, develop, deliver” for a university-wide diversity summit. It was a great exercise, but I got to thinking something was missing: the fifth dimension. Try this approach...
Live Stream Your Next Event
In the Mar/Apr 2017 issue of Associations Now magazine, there is an excellent article by Samantha Whitehorne called, Five Reasons to Consider Live Streaming Your Next Event. Here at TSN, we have the capabilities to do live streaming and I agree with Samantha, there...