+ All Categories
Home > Business > PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Date post: 14-Sep-2014
Category:
View: 449 times
Download: 0 times
Share this document with a friend
Description:
This was the basis for a session on PR and marketing fundamentals that I ran. It provides a step-by-step guide to creating an effective startup PR program
Popular Tags:
72
PR & Marketing Analysis Lyndon Johnson THINK | DIFFERENT [LY] 2013
Transcript
Page 1: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

PR & Marketing Analysis

Lyndon Johnson THINK | DIFFERENT [LY] 2013

Page 2: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Founder, THINK | DIFFERENT [LY]ex-Broadcaster, coffee drinker, Green Bay Packer fan

Page 3: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Public Relations

the [strategic] process of building mutually beneficial relationships between an organization and its publics

Page 4: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Marketing [communications]

Everything you do to leverage the relationships built via public relations activity

Page 5: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Brand

What your customers and prospects say about you

Page 6: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Value proposition

What makes you valuable to your customers and prospects

Page 7: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Social Media [real-time internet]

Using various social platforms to communicate with an organizations various publics

Page 8: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

The elevator pitch

Page 9: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

30 seconds

Page 10: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Your nameBusiness/ideaWhy you’re different#1 marketing challenge

Page 11: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

What is effective PR?

Page 12: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

The right message to the right audience, at the right time via the most appropriate channel

Page 13: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

#1. The Right Audience

Page 14: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Go Niche

Page 15: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Stay focused

Page 16: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

300,000

Page 17: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

7.5

Page 18: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Get involved

Page 19: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Feel their pain

Page 20: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Learn how your audience talks…

Page 21: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

…thinks...

Page 22: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

… & makes decisions!

Page 23: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Understand the influencers

Page 24: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Validate the audience

Page 25: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Audience activity: define your audience

Page 26: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

#2. The Right Message

Page 27: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Core values

Page 28: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Value Proposition

Page 29: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Focus on value [not feature/function]

Page 30: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups
Page 31: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Value proposition is the basis for your messages

Page 32: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Develop custom messages

Page 33: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups
Page 34: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups
Page 35: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

10, 25, 50 and 100 words

Page 36: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Validate messages

Page 37: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Value prop/message activity

Page 38: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

#3. The Right Time

Page 39: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

When is the right time?

Page 40: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

It isn’t ALL the time!

Page 41: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Your audience is listening

Page 42: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Find the right time

Page 43: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Key events

Page 44: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Timing activity

Page 45: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

#4. The Right Channel

Page 46: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Where is my audience?

Page 47: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Start a conversation

Page 48: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Listen and observe

Page 49: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Participate

Page 50: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

“Engage brain. Open Mouth”

Page 51: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

The media as an audience

Page 52: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

How do I create a compelling story?

Page 53: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Scandal

Page 54: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Bad news

Page 55: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Human Interest

Page 56: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Currency

Page 57: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

“Do something cool. Tell us about it. Then do it again”

John Biggs, TechCrunch

Page 58: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Become an asset

Page 59: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Offer help before asking for it

Page 60: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Understand the audience

Page 61: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

The right message to the right audience, at the right time via the right channel

Page 62: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Story-telling activity

Page 63: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Marketing

Page 64: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Content Marketing

Page 65: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

The right content to the right audience at the right time in the right format, via the right

delivery mechanism

Page 66: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Measuring PR & marketing performance

Page 67: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Pick commercial objectives

Page 68: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Coverage/awareness is NOT a goal

Page 69: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Actions speak louder than page impressions

Page 70: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Monitor/review campaigns

Page 71: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

Find out what could work better

Page 72: PR & Marketing Fundamentals for Startups

THINK | DIFFERENT [LY]

http://differently.ca@THINK_Lyndon

[email protected]


Recommended