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Beautiful Brand Guides

By Kris Travis | May 21, 2015

Brand guide for Clearly Business, by The One Off A brand guide is an essential tool for companies who aim to present a cohesive, consistent, and professional face to the world. A company’s brand guide acts as its visual communications “map” over the years, and also as documentation of the brand’s history as it evolves (as […]

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Break Down Barriers with Social Media

By Molly Benito | May 15, 2015

With the continuously changing landscape social media has bestowed upon us, companies are now capable – and required – of being more transparent in today’s online world. This is generally beneficial, allowing companies to humanize themselves to the public; however, for organizations that have been slower to break down barriers with social media, adapt to […]

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Amazon's product visualization through press release

By Kelda Rericha | May 14, 2015

Amazon executives are typically a reclusive bunch. So its was a rare treat when Jeff Wilke, Amazon’s senior vice president of consumer business, took the stage this week at Seattle University as part of the Albers Executive Speaker Series. In an hour-long talk, Wilke laid out the core leadership principles that make up the tech […]

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A Break Down of Crisis Communications

By Jillian Stephens | May 12, 2015

Whether or not we like it, things don’t always go as we plan – both in life and in business. Being human means making mistakes and having the occasional reputation-threatening slip up. These things happen almost inevitably, which is why crisis communications is one of the most valuable aspects of Public Relations. But what exactly is crisis […]

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8 Ways to Come Up With Fresh Blog Content

By Lisa Lavora-De Beule | May 11, 2015

It’s not always easy to come up with engaging, inspiring and fresh blog content to share with your audience. Yet maintaining a blog is fundamental to effective content marketing, helping businesses generate traffic to their website, enhance visibility and influence sales. Digital Marketer has come up with a solution to cure your writer’s block – in […]

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A Better Editing Process

By Mary Gorretta | May 6, 2015

I know the saying goes that is far easier to edit a piece of writing than to start one from a blank page, but I sometimes find the editing process just as hard. These four steps recently offered by Ragan’s PR Daily have really helped me lately to break down the process of editing as […]

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The Importance of Negative Feedback

By Kris Travis | Apr 30, 2015

In case you didn’t know, today is “National Honesty Day.” (It also happens to be “Adopt a Shelter Pet Day,” “Bugs Bunny Day,” “Hairstylist Appreciation Day,” “Oatmeal Cookie Day,” “Raisin Day,” “Sarcoidosis Day,” and “Poem in Your Pocket Day,” and while a number of those are terribly important—I mean, cookies!–we’ll focus on honesty for now.) […]

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America's Favorite Sport in a PR Crisis

By Jillian Stephens | Apr 23, 2015

America loves football – everyone knows that. But it’s beginning to look like the sport itself is in crisis and does not reciprocate these feelings. A growing body of evidence is beginning to show that football players are prone to concussions and thus prone to degenerative brain disease later on in life. These diseases (CTE […]

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A tale of two cities: ACME shows how good employee relations made good business sense

By Kelda Rericha | Apr 20, 2015

In addition to being an incredible A. Wordsmith client and a brilliant business partner to some of Portland, Seattle and San Diego’s biggest and best companies, ACME Business Consulting is a really great place to work. Sara Fritsch, ACME’s marketing team lead, has worked with ACME for nine years in a variety of roles. Today […]

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What Social Media Content Gets Shared the Most?

By Lisa Lavora-De Beule | Apr 20, 2015

Between June and November 2014, Buzz Stream and Fractl analyzed 220,000 pieces of content from 11 verticals (automotive, education, health, finance, food, business, technology, travel, entertainment, news, and lifestyle) to assess what social media content gets shared the most. The content of articles was divided into five types: how-tos, lists, what-posts, why-posts, and videos: How-tos: […]

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