9 Apr

Measuring the Media Hits

By Kaity Dunn Account Associate Inchworm, inchworm/Measuring the marigolds/You and your arithmetic/You’ll probably go far. For some reason I often think of this poem when I’m reporting the media hits a client has secured for an announcement or event. It’s like I’m an inchworm that works at a Cincinnati PR agency instead of garden. Aside […]

4 Apr
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28 Mar

Tips for Creating a Survey

Kaity Dunn Account Associate In order to make informed marketing and communications decisions, it’s important to have data as a compass to guide the messaging. At our Cincinnati public relations agency, Rasor Marketing Communications, we often use surveys to measure public awareness and opinion for a project or service. For some large transportation projects for […]

26 Mar

Why You Need a Great Marketing Communications Agency

By Erika Turan, APR Senior Account Executive There are at least a hundred good reasons to think about hiring a marketing communications agency. Here are a few reasons to think about hiring a great marketing communications agency. 1.     Because they can provide an outside perspective. Before working in an agency, I spent 15 years in […]

19 Mar

7 great tips to be an amazing intern

By Erika Turan, APR Senior Account Executive In a previous life, I worked for one of the biggest companies in Cincinnati, with about 12,000 employees. I volunteered to head the public relations & marketing department’s internship program, and for several years, dozens of interns rotated through our ranks. I learned a lot about managing interns […]

14 Mar

Word to Your Mother

By Erika Turan, APR Senior Account Executive I’m dating myself here, but as a little kid, Walter Cronkite was the newsman for our house (which begs the question as to why a little kid was watching the news, but whatever). Walter Cronkite was the CBS Evening News anchorman for a staggering 19 years, starting in […]

12 Mar

3 Rules to Live by When Measuring Healthcare Marketing

By Mimi Rasor, APR President Anyone who has spent time in healthcare marketing knows all too well what it’s like to present results to doctors who have spent their careers in research. They speak data. Fluently. They ask questions like, “Why is three percent missing on that market share chart?” and “What’s the methodology behind […]

7 Mar
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