Although the presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic dominated the 2020 news cycle, a few companies still managed to make headlines…for all the wrong reasons. PR professional or not, we can all learn lessons from the blunders outlined below. Boeing Even before the start of 2020, Boeing faced…
The digitization of business processes has fully trickled down to small and local businesses, in part because necessity mandated a major transition to online business development in the early months of 2020. Regardless of the reason for this transition, it would be naive to think that we’ll backtrack…
If you’ve ever seen an old print advertisement, you may have rolled your eyes. There are ads with so many words. Some have messages we now know are crazy. Plenty of them are shocking or offensive (so I won’t link them here!). But at the time, those companies…
In public relations, we often talk about crafting language or materials that tell a brand story. We associate certain words, phrases and concepts with the essence of a company, and we use these words throughout our materials to reinforce key messages for our constituents. As PR professionals in…
Pause – If you haven’t already, check out our first blog post in this series. You can read it here. In public relations, we often talk about crafting language or materials that tell a brand story. We associate certain words, phrases and concepts with the essence of a…
Take a look through Obsidian’s blog in the crisis category, and you’ll find nearly 40 posts on how to plan for, manage and rectify crisis situations or issues. Crises are a part of life for PR firms so we’re never surprised when another strikes. Whether that’s three times…
Have you ever been handed a set of forms to fill out only to be confused by what they are even asking for? Or, find conflicting or insufficient information in paperwork or online that only makes the whole process more complicated and drawn out? The lack of clarity…
Why a PR firm should be a part of your merger or acquisition planning team Last week, we received a breaking-news alert that SunTrust Bank and BB&T would soon be merging. The combined assets of the two banks will make it the nation’s sixth largest bank – so…
For brands, social media is not free. That might be hard to hear, but it’s true! The platform is free and you may organically grow your audience, but ensuring your audience sees your content is another story. So, if you’re allocating a portion of your marketing budget to…
Getting more sales from search engines boils down to three methods - and, it’s actually pretty easy to get started. But before we dig into how this all works, you’ve probably heard of “SEO” or search engine optimization. SEO is basically a set of methodologies and techniques that…