What
can EnTech public relations do for you? Through strategic
planning and execution we get results – more coverage,
more influence, and more business. We do it everyday for our
clients. And we can do it for you.
What
public relations can do and cannot do for you.
Public
relations is effective in terms of costs and targeting. Many
businesses, such as some divisions of Microsoft, only use
PR to promote some of their products. By avoiding some of
the high cost of advertising placement, creative fees, and
production -- public relations can be relatively cost-effective.
Public relations can also be used to reach specific audiences,
particularly important with increased media fragmentation
and market segmentation.
Public
relations benefits:
- Cost-effective:
PR can be much more cost effective than other forms of marketing,
such as advertising.
- Influence:
When your good work receives media attention, it influences
opinions about your company and products.
- Expertise:
When the media writes about your company or seeks your opinions,
it raises the bar as you are now positioned as the experts.
- Increased
sales leads: Media coverage in the trade
or consumer press generates leads for your sales department.
- Awareness:
Make people aware of your technologies, products, and services.
- Education:
An educated customer is the best customer. PR is a very
effective tool for educating markets about new technologies
and products.
- Credibility:
A key benefit of PR as a communications tool is the high
degree of credibility perceived in the mind of the reader/viewer
when compared to other marketing methods such as advertising.
- Differentiation:
Once the market is educated and interest has been generated
in a product or technology, public relations messages must
differentiate a brand from their competition.
- Third
Party Endorsement: When your product or
technology is endorsed by another party, such as a journalist
or other expert, you gain credibility. A good article or
new product listing in a trade publication is then read
and believed.
What PR cannot do for you:
- Reach
a lot of people in a hurry. Public relations takes more
time to get the word out than an ad campaign.
- Hard
hitting campaigns. PR is slow and subtle, advertising is
immediate and in your face.
- Frequent
coverage. You have no guarantees of what will be covered
when.
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No absolutes. There is never assurance that what you do
will be covered by the news media, or to your satisfaction.
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