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This women’s day, let just strive to be ordinary. But resilient.
Sania Mirza marked a glorious closure with the Australian Open 2023, as mixed doubles runners-up. All of us are still hopeful for Serena Williams to return soon and bring everything fiery to the courts. Often touted as the undisputed queen among women football players in the world, is Barcelona and Spain’s Alexia Putellas. The names that put the spotlight on cricket for women – Mithali Raj, Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Jhulan Goswami – and for me contribute to the successful launch of WPL! This time round, attributing this article to the fervor around “International Women’s Day” and to the emergence of the greatest cricketers, of our time! Now, now. I’m…
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Wizikey and PRPOI unveil the 2023 edition of the “State of PR and Comms” Report
Building Trust and Credibility remains the most important function in PR PR and Comms still has major priority for brands pipping even social media Mumbai, 7 Feb 2023: It’s finally out – the latest survey on the Public Relations and Communications Industry, powered by Wizikey, the SAAS and AI-powered global media monitoring and intelligence company, and PRPOI, the award-winning platform for upskilling in Public Relations. A complete guide to the state of an industry that has bucked a pandemic and continues to grow despite economic uncertainties and downturns. The survey was held across a set of 207 respondents across entry, mid, and CXO levels in the communication industry, independent agencies,…
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6 PR trends that will reinvent the communications industry in 2023
While 2022 was no less than a roller coaster ride for most of us in PR, we kind of expected this as the storm of covid settled and businesses opened in full swing. The year kicked-off with geo-political stress and inflationary pressure, though, later brought in renewed opportunities to do more than just business as usual, whilst bringing scope for new innovations. Talent identification and retention however both for brands and agencies remained a consistent challenge. With that let’s dive into what are some of the big PR predictions/trends for the year 2023. 1. Changing the narrative: Brands are working hard to build on ‘purpose-led’ communications and at a strategic…
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Communication Industry: Three pillars that will make it to 2023 for the better.
The Communications industry is in an intriguing phase during the early years of this decade. If we look back, it’s been an era of change. Just the last 12 years have seen Websites, E-mail, Blogs, Search engines, Newsrooms, Issue based TV debates, Agenda based TV shouting matches, Reality shows, Talent hunts, Messengers, Text-based social media, 3G, Mobile wallets, Memes, Visual social media, Video social media, 4G, Video OTT, Music OTT, Everything OTT, Gaming, Immersive gaming, Augmented reality, Micro influencers, Social media campaigns, Elections being fought, influenced and won on Social media and messengers, Climate change, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and more (Phew !). It seems like everything has changed. And it feels…
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Hiring a PR Agency Does Not Make You Famous!
So you hired a PR Agency? You were excited and expected you or your brand to be plastered on the front pages of the media in the next few days. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen! You waited, as they asked for time! You waited some more and then you saw very little results and then you took an executive decision and fired them! Then you hired another PR agency! This time with better credentials and also at a cost reduction of 10%. Then you went through the entire process again. It’s not them, my friend, it’s you. As a stakeholder in your company’s or your personal reputation management, your job is…
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Are you pitch-slapping your way to clients? Stop, right now!
Hey readers, do you want to know how to generate publicity without spending money? If yes, get in touch with us. I am sharing our credentials here for your reference. If you read the above paragraph wondering what the hell is this, know that I have just pitch-slapped you. Did it hurt? I am sure it did. It hurt because you did not come here to read a sales pitch. You came here to read an article about business development and how to avoid the pitfalls of sending a blind pitch to your target customers. Pitch-slapping is when you send a sales pitch to somebody you just connected with (or…
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Behave yourself, version 3.0
Isn’t this brilliant? In the age of us (humans) building satellites like our ancestors did farming, we still need to discuss how Corporate Communication professionals should behave with their agencies?! Wow, long-winding sentence to begin with. Let me nudge you a little more, why not! With our extended capability to buy land on other planets or acceptance to write thesis around ‘empathy’, do we need awareness on how to respect our external partner agencies? These are not whimsical statements, but very pertinent behavior styles, often noticed. Corporate Communications is critical for an organization to build strong pillars of effective storytelling and desirable reputation – this has been strengthened far more,…
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Data & Analytics is the box that still needs to ticked!
PR & CorpComm Industry went all out to support Brands and the Corporate world at large during the pandemic phase. Empirical data suggests that PR was the communication approach of choice and that it helped maintain buoyancy for brands. Encouraged by this, hopefully, 2022 should take us closer to the desired situation where CXO’s will publicly announce their (marriage) dependency on Public Relations industry to build brand and manage businesses. Till about a decade back, a core talent PR Industry professionals would demonstrate would be their networking skills and ability to build connections. Which is why, “I like meeting people” would be a common answer when asked as to why…
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Do you believe media is not dead?
When this was posed to me during a discussion, the question blew my mind off! My mind was bewildered by endless questions. I mean, can media ever be dead? Really?!? What will happen if, media is truly dead? And if it happens, then what can ever fill the void that the death of media creates? Media is a core stakeholder for communications – sans media – how will public relations function, and how will the messages get delivered? Post distressful mental probing I concluded that media is changed, rather ever evolving and not really dead. Can’t be. Ever. Never. Media reflects the society and continues to adapt to societal transformations.…
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2022 to be the ‘ Year of Redefining PR industry’ What changes can we expect?
Seeking learnings from the very tough year of 2020, the PR industry was seen to bring in a renewed focus for itself in the year 2021 and this holds true both at the agency and corporate communications levels. Thanks to the exceptional talent and perseverance, new-age businesses to traditional corporates, hired communications specialist agencies, Head of PR/Comms as well as expanded teams and budgets, proving the fact that communications was slowly yet subtly turning as a powerful enabler for India Inc. As the world dabbles between hybrid worklife, lockdowns, and restrictions, here’s our prediction on what can be expected from the PR industry in redefining itself. Narratives to take centre…
