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Today's Modern Corporation
Large: Wal-Mart $405 billion
Remoteness: Around world
Distrust: fewer than 3 in 10 trust
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Role of PR
Role of PR
Adopt ethical principles
Pursue transparency, disclosure
Make trust key of governance
Payoff: avoid reg, employee morale, bottom line
Media Relations
Mutual animosity
Key: need each other
Managers Complaints
- inaccuracy
- incomplete coverage
- inadequate research
- anti-business bias
Reporters Complaints
Uncooperative, barriers
Uninformative releases
Misunderstanding balanced coverage
Need fact-based messages
Customer Relations
We rely on customers to operate
Positive experience: tell 11; Negative tell 17
Recalls
Integrate customer relations and PR
Monitor customer feedback: e-mails, calls, surveys, Twitter, Facebook
Customer Relations
Consumer activists: Ex. PETA Tyson Foods, KFC, Coke
Do: work with ones that want solution; transparency; action
Don't: no emotion; no agree to threats; don't expect immediate results
Consumer boycotts: refusal to buy the products services of an offending company
Employee Relations
Crucial audience
Issues: layoffs, outsourcing/offshoring
Inform employee first; limit misinformation
Sexual harassment: policy and liability issues
100 Best Companies
- Flextime
- EAP
- Elder care
- Child care
- Compressed worksheets
- Job sharing
Investor Relations (IR)
Important role in company
SEC regulations
In investor relations, a company must disclose information that is adjudged to be material to an investor's decision to buy, sell or hold stock
Audiences: financial analysts, investors (institutional & individuals), shareholders, prospective shareholders, financial media, employees
Marketing PR (MPR):
The process of planning, executing, and evaluating programs that encourage purchase and customer satisfaction through credible communication of information and impressions that identify companies and their products with the needs, wants, concerns and interests of consumers.
Marketing Communications
Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC)
Product publicity: builds credibility
Product placement: integrate into show
Cause-related marketing: Ex. American Express/State of Liberty, profit and non-profit join
Corporate sponsorships: $10 billion
- sports: visibility
- cultural: hit opinion leaders
Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC):
Work with advertising, marketing, direct mail. Sales & promotions.
Corporate Sponsorships
Enhance image and reputation
Give product brands visibility
Focal point for marketing efforts
Generate publicity and media coverage
Viral Marketing
Buss, WOM
Ex. Burger King Subservient Chicken: huge numbers
Cohort Communication: financial incentive
Environmental Relations
Strong pressure on companies
NGO: Nongovernmental organizations
Work toward cooperation, partnership
PR Role
- present accomplishments
- inform management of perceptions
- conduct campaigns within company
- environmental audit
- campaign: positives, crisis plan
Corporate Philanthropy
Individuals give most (75%); Corporations (5%)
Company: don't do for publicity; do it to build
Strategic Philanthropy
- reputation, brand recognition
- increase media opportunities
- improve community/government relations
- facilitate employee recruitment, retention
- enhanced marketing
- access to research and development
- increase profitability
Minorities in the Workforce
Growth of Women, minorities
Diverse workplace, demands inclusion, respect
Ex. Food, religion, holidays
Employee Volunteerism
Offer time
Sabbaticals
Day off to help