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Hiring a PR agency? Questions to ask before you sign up Before you sign a contract with any PR agency, we recommend that you ask these questions first. Ask upfront during the sales pitch and you are more likely to hire the right PR agency for your business, your...
Not a luxury, but an essential. Why insurtech PR is so important when you’re looking to make headway in the industry.Let's start with a trio of urban legends One of the most common mistakes people make when deciding on how to promote their brand is to assume everyone...
As a insurtech start-up, thinking about your PR at an early stage can pay dividends in the future. Here, we take a look at why There’s a lot to think about when starting up as a new insurtech, and it can be tempting to put ‘soft’ matters, such as marketing,...
As we hurtle towards 2023, and with talks of an imminent recession looming, it is more important than ever before for growing businesses to focus on aligning their Marketing and PR strategies and execution so that they can leverage restricted budgets to create impact...
To secure a sale, you need to create desire, a belief that your X will solve my Y. The higher the price tag of your X, the stronger my belief needs to be to close the sale – and the longer the likely sales cycle to embed that belief becomes, because belief is rooted...
Everything you need to know for successful B2B PR campaign planning A strategic PR guide for B2B Marketers to help you execute your communication strategy. The planning phase of any communication strategy should always begin with the initial task of setting out some...
How to plan an effective analyst relations programme "We have a great solution, and we want to tell as many analysts as possible about it. We want to build a great analyst relations (AR) programme. What have you done previously that has been successful?" This is how...
Our Client Service Director, Liz Churchman and Amir Bazrafshan of the the B2B Brand and Demand podcast, discuss strategic PR: how it differs from tactical PR and how, when planned and implemented properly, it can be used to build B2B brand awareness, engage the right...
Analyst relations, or AR, is a field of communications commonly used by B2B tech businesses to establish a reputation and build brand awareness amongst industry experts, known as industry analysts. Amongst other things, analysts influence sales in the tech industry....
Recently our Client Service Director, Liz Churchman, featured in a PR Moment article, Ten Top Tips for Writing in PR, in which she highlighted the importance of doing your background research. Writing well in PR, and especially technical PR, requires a firm grip on...
The tangible outcome of the Messaging Lab is a fully-validated communication strategy which is aligned to your sales requirements including: a value proposition, segment prioritisation, target personas, positioning statements and messaging.
The Messaging Lab comprises a series of structured workshops and consultancy engagements that deliver actionable insights comprising:
– focuses on developing and evidencing your value proposition, segmentation priorities and target personas.
This process hones your understanding of potential target segments in order to decide which ones to proactively address. It ensures we know who we are engaging with and why; better targeting reduces waste and promotes marketing/sales collaboration.
– concentrates on forming and refining your positioning statements and messaging.
This helps you to save time and money by providing focus and specificity, rigour protects reputation against false or loose claims and elevates the communication.
It ensures that compelling messaging is developed for every stage of the buying cycle for each persona with whom you wish to engage.
– Comms strategy research with external stakeholders
This ensures the strategy is the best it can be, peer feedback is considered and on-boarded or actively rejected. Several iterations of the comms strategy may follow to ensure the strategy fits and resonates both with external stakeholders and sales and marketing stakeholders.
Once you have your strategy, we need to activate it by introducing it to the wider team, embedding it amongst stakeholders and making sure the available Marcomms tools are updated and aligned. There are six key tools in The Forge, which can be selected according to individual client needs:
…and to complete the package here’s a summary of our PR delivery process – The Bee Hive.
