We’ve developed these PR guides, tools and templates for you to use in your planning and help deliver outstanding results for your business.
8-steps to a B2B Communication Strategy
This PR guide shows you how to write your B2B communication strategy.
Complete with templates to identify your value proposition, target personas and messaging at each stage of the buying cycle, it is an essential companion for marketers.
If you want to create industry insights that command attention, this guide is for you. This detailed tool kit will help you take your first steps towards becoming a recognised authority in your chosen area of expertise.
How to supercharge your business with integrated PR & marketing
Do you want to reach potential customers on every platform and at every point in their buying journey with cohesive and relevant messages? This guide will get you and your teams started.
This PR guide provides the fundamentals to build brand renown and influence.
Complete with templates to undertake media evaluation, competitive analysis and issue hierarchy and selection, it is an essential companion for marketers looking to build compelling and insightful thought leadership.
This workbook will help you make the most of the media attending trade events, it provides step by step advice which will enable you to plan, create and make the most of the press opportunities around your event.
This is an essential PR guide for becoming an excellent spokesperson for your B2B business, brand or campaign.
It will help you to understand how the media operates, teach you how to manage different interview styles and equip you to engage journalists with confidence and flare.
Industry analysts are some of the most important influencers in the technology sector. Our comprehensive guide will show you how to engage with analysts to help your firm build mutually beneficial relationships, grow credibility and win more leads.
If you’re getting ready to scale up a B2B tech company for the first time, then you’re about to discover that growing a business is both exhilarating and nerve-wracking. There may be various reasons for scaling: perhaps you want to focus your efforts on growing your...
5 tell-tale signs it might be time to upgrade your PR arrangements. Investing in a partnership with a PR agency can be a big step up for B2B tech scaleup businesses, so it’s important to feel confident that you’re getting the biggest bang for your buck – after all,...
To be effective PR must be fully aligned with business goals When I worked as a local newspaper journalist, the prevailing attitude towards the PR profession was that PR was all fluff, awards ceremonies, celebrities, and cute puppies and kittens. There were exceptions...
A PR strategy is essential for organising your PR activities and making strategic decisions about how to communicate with your target audience. There are some considerations for B2B tech companies to bear in mind when they set out to develop a PR strategy as they face...
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Phase one: The Messaging Lab
Communication strategy development
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:
Messaging Lab1
– 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.
Messaging Lab2
– 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.
Validation
– 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.
The Bee Hive is all about creativity and delivery, intelligently and proactively performing. There are no new whiz bang tools – just careful, consistent and disciplined delivery, including:
Brilliant Ideas Bank – we create an engaging, on-strategy content calendar, ideas for thought leadership, white papers, comment & insights
Media relations – we build relationships on your behalf to identify, develop and place your stories
Event support – we deliver a structured package of activities to make your 2-day event last six months
Technical authorship – our writing is second to none. We will develop, place, interview experts, draft and gain approvals as part of the deal.
Press interviews – we develop, secure, brief experts, facilitate and follow up opportunities
All editorial writing – whether it’s releases, features, white papers, blogs or ad hoc content, we’ve got it covered.
Project management – meetings, admin, monthly ROI reporting. We’re methodical and love a good project report!
Evaluation – in order to improve campaign design and performance.
We take great pride in delivering CEOs and CMOs of tech companies with certainty through accountable, effective and thought-provoking PR consultancy, underpinned by a proven phased approach and a performance guarantee. Let’s engage.
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:
An engagement programme ensures internal stakeholders understand and buy-in to new comms strategy by demonstrating how it will make their jobs easier/better/more productive
An audit of all Marcomms materials to make sure all the tools required to communicate with your target personas are updated or created and fully aligned.
Develop a messaging matrix to ensure that all Personas have collateral serving appropriate messages at each stages of the buying cycle.
Collaborate to design individual campaigns to achieve specific business objectives amongst target personas such as cross-sell, upsell, customer acquisition etc.
PESO modelling delivers integrated marcomms, extends reach and optimises investment. This helps to determine internal marketing team and external agency campaign deliverables.
Tailored media training ensures your spokespeople are equipped to engage effectively with the media and conduct themselves with confidence.
…and to complete the package here’s a summary of our PR delivery process – The Bee Hive.