Tailor Your Message To Match The Media’s Needs

One of the challenges we often face at EMSI is helping our clients understand the need to tailor their message – or even condense it – so that it appeals to busy editors and producers whose email inboxes are inundated with pitches. That’s the name of the game with publicity. If you can’t sell the […]

The Media Won’t Stop For The Holidays – And Neither Should Your Publicity Efforts

The holiday season is fast approaching, which means I’ll soon start hearing the question that’s almost as much an annual tradition around here as turkey and pumpkin pie. Is it pointless to launch a publicity campaign this time of year? Those who ask usually are operating on some variation of this theory: Many people take […]

Discounting The Value Of Digital Publications – Get With The Times

Something I still hear from many clients is they’re excited about appearing in the traditional print version of a publication, but they’re not quite as thrilled about articles that appear online. Perhaps their reaction is only natural. Most of us grew up with traditional print playing a role in our lives. The local newspaper printed […]

3 Ways To Make Journalists Happy and Promote Your Brand At The Same Time

We always like to share good news with each other here at EMSI, so I was overjoyed to hear that another one of our clients – a financial professional – has been having a stellar print campaign. But his situation also got me to thinking. What’s been the key to his success and is there […]

Celebritize Yourself: 5 Things To Focus On When Defining Your Brand

Defining your brand – whether it’s a personal brand or corporate one – is, at its core, all about telling a story. If you manage to touch on just the right story elements, and do so in an engaging way, your brand can get the attention and traction you want. Fail, and your company will fade […]

What’s The Value Of A ‘Like’?

Social media and its role in marketing can be quite the puzzle – even for some of those who are sold on the benefits. They check their “likes” and they figure that a bigger number is better than a smaller one, but beyond that they are perplexed. “What does it all mean?” they wonder. In […]

How To Grow A Social Media Following Using Resources You Already Have

At one time or another we all probably have dreamed about what we could accomplish if we had unlimited resources. Of course, for most of us the “unlimited resources” situation never progresses beyond that dream stage. But maybe that doesn’t always matter. Just this morning, Jay York, EMSI’s senior social media strategist, was sharing with […]