What's Your Story? Using Public Relations to Build Your Bottom Line

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K Squared Communications®, Inc. www.ksqrd.com What’s your Story? Using Public Relations to Build Your Bottom Line

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Using the one to many approach of public relations, how do you create an interesting story deserving of attention?

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K Squared Communications®, Inc.www.ksqrd.com

What’s your Story?

Using Public Relations to Build Your Bottom Line

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Question

• Why use Public Relations?– Increase sales– Attract valuable employees– Improve partner deals– Other reasons?

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Who? Where? What? How?

• Who do you want to reach?

• Where do they live? Work?

• What do they read?

• What is your competition doing?

• What do you want to say?

• How are you going to reach them?

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How do you reach the Press?

• Targeting publications

• Targeting editors

• Press releases

• Story ideas

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Working with the Press

• Timing

• Speed

• Attitude

• Content

• Preparation

• Background

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Press Releases

• Headline

• Dateline

• News

• Quotes

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Working the Interview

• The Interview

• The Photo Shoot

• The Follow up

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Questions?

Kate Koziol

773 774 7847

[email protected]