By Erika Turan Even if you haven’t kept up with the show, it’s hard to miss Game of Thrones right now. HBO just debuted the series’ final season, and the juggernaut is not to be messed with. The series eight premiere brought in a record 17.4 million viewers. Not too shabby in a world of approximately one […]
Just as websites have become the “new” brochure for companies, digital ads have become the new Yellow Pages. A big part of online/digital advertising comes in the form of Pay-Per-Click (PPC) ads, also known as Google AdWords or paid search. These are ads that appear at the top of the web search page when […]
By Erika Turan I’ve been a PR and marketing practitioner for more than 20 years now, the past seven years at this awesome, award-winning marketing and public relations agency in Cincinnati. I’ve seen a lot. I’ve done a lot. Some things have worked. Some things have failed miserably. Much like anything in life, there […]
Go ahead and Google the word “Fiona,” and the first result you get won’t be the princess from Shrek. Or Fiona Apple, the Grammy-award winning singer. The first page of results is nearly entirely about a baby hippo. Fiona, the bouncing, blubbery hippopotamus born prematurely at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2017, had all the odds […]
I live in a modestly sized home. I drove the same Toyota Corolla for 15 years. My wardrobe could stand a serious upgrade. I say these things to demonstrate that I’m truly not an overly materialistic person. Yet, each fall, I mark my calendar and count down the days to Apple’s big announcement event — […]
A well-designed project map is a beautiful thing – it can help explain a project and reinforce your brand. When you’re using maps to help communicate your project to the public, you want to make sure they’re uncluttered, clearly branded and clearly labeled. Below are a few examples of maps the Rasor Public Involvement Team […]
Oftentimes when our team creates blogs, we’re inspired by client work, industry news or random sources of information (like pizza or office dogs). But, every once in a while, writer’s block hits and it feels impossible to come up with anything uniquely new. So, we turn to some of our favorite sources of inspiration to […]
The email subject line is critical for your public works projects email campaigns. A well-crafted subject line can immediately grab the recipient, and engage them into opening the email. But a poorly directed subject line will result in the email hitting the trash folder. Below are tips for writing effective email subject lines. Keep it […]
By Abby Brown, Creative Associate “Can you teach me how to use those emoji things?” my mother once asked me at the dinner table. Full disclosure: I don’t particularly love teaching my parents about technology. It requires a lot of patience and time, both of which I do not have. My mother sent me rat […]
By Kasi Detmer, Account Associate I often find myself grumbling when writing tweets for marketing clients when I’m one character over the 140 limit. “But I NEED that hashtag, I NEED that word.” The character limit is what makes Twitter so amazing and so frustrating. Lately I’ve been fascinated by short stories that meet the […]
