What's Your Story? Using Public Relations to Build Your Bottom Line
1. What’s your Story?
Using Public Relations to Build
Your Bottom Line
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Inc.
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2. Question
• Why use Public Relations?
– Increase sales
– Attract valuable employees
– Improve partner deals
– Other reasons?
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Inc.
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3. Who? Where? What? How?
• Who do you want to reach?
• Where do they live? Work?
• What do they read?
• What is your competition doing?
• What do you want to say?
• How are you going to reach them?
K Squared Communications®,
Inc.
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4. How do you reach the Press?
• Targeting publications
• Targeting editors
• Press releases
• Story ideas
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Inc.
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5. Working with the Press
• Timing
• Speed
• Attitude
• Content
• Preparation
• Background
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Inc.
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6. Press Releases
• Headline
• Dateline
• News
• Quotes
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7. Working the Interview
• The Interview
• The Photo Shoot
• The Follow up
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Inc.
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8. Questions?
Kate Koziol
773 774 7847
kkoziol@ksqrd.com
K Squared Communications®,
Inc.
www.ksqrd.com
Notes de l'éditeur
How many of you are the only game in town? No Competitors? It is a race to get the customer – and you are the smart ones because you are here – at the starting blocks - In training to be successful How many of you got into travel because you love to travel? How many signed on to be carnies, salespeople, data geeks? In the two hours you will learn how to raise your visibility - as painlessly as possible. Some sales courses draw from anthropology groups to distinguish between those that go and seek out sales and those that nourish the current sales that they have Currently – Hunters and gatherers vs. farming Today you will learn both hunting and gathering and farming