By Felicia Guthrie It’s February 14th, Valentine’s Day, a day filled with love, but how can small businesses inspire brand love and loyalty? A brand’s ability to stand out by elevating experiences, creating emotional connections and offering greater utility helps drive brand loyalty and love. As a small business, here’s what you can do to […]
Public Relations
February 14, 2019
January 31, 2019
By Felicia Guthrie Sunday, February 3rd, marks Super Bowl LIII, and while we can expect the typical star-studded commercials from major brands like Pepsi, we’re also excited to see how brands are changing up the classic Super Bowl Commercial. Two brands breaking from traditional ads are Olay and Skittles. In the past, Super Bowl ads […]
January 24, 2019
This question came up recently in a Twitter chat we took part in. It sparked an “interesting” discussion with most participants on one side of the discussion and one participant on the other. The larger group felt that marketing strategy clearly had to come first. One voice said that PR came first. At SongBird, we […]
December 15, 2018
It happens to the best of brands. You may have hit a slump. You may have switched things up and your audience just didn’t take to the changes. Whatever the reason, you just had a bad marketing year. While it can be frustrating because a bad marketing year will negatively affect your sales, it doesn’t […]
July 26, 2018
Public Relations (PR) often has a wall of confusion surrounding it… The biggest question that comes up most often is what it means. Often, people think that PR is just media relations, when it reality it is so much more. PR is any type of strategy that helps you connect with your public. It can […]
July 19, 2018
We’ve all heard the saying “Content is King” and if you haven’t… well… you have now! Creating content is a great way for you to connect directly with both your target audience and your established community. And social media makes it possible to do this instantly while keeping significant control over your brand’s message and […]
May 17, 2018
We work with a lot of brands, organizations, individual experts, and authors to help raise their profile using public relations (PR). PR can mean so many different things to so many people, and we have compiled some of the most common questions we get about PR. Q: What is public relations? A: We define […]
April 12, 2018
We’ve written about marketing to moms and dads before. It’s an important topic as the parenting and baby market will keep growing. That being said, with growth brings change, especially when it comes to age groups. Millennials have been a hot topic for a while now. In fact, the overall trend is shifting to discussions […]
March 16, 2018
Marketing at its best is when brands allow themselves to think outside of the box. If you want to make an impact with your marketing, you need to be memorable, which means doing things a bit different than your competitors. This can lead to some strange marketing tactics. Some of these marketing tactics are successful, […]
March 2, 2018
Given we are a week away from International Women’s Day, we thought we would reminisce about some of the biggest product and PR fails related to gender-based campaigns. Brands can’t win them all, but these products and campaigns show us how easy it can be to overlook the simplest things when it comes to filling […]