The Value in Values: How Brand Loyalty is Changing

Jared Hogan
In 2024, we know consumers are demanding more from the brands they love than ever before. Not just in the products and services offered, or price points amid inflationary concerns, but in their willingness to take a firm stance on values-based issues — and to stick with it.  According to results from a recently released […]

What PR Can Learn From Social Listening

Terri Waters
Social media strategists know that social listening is a great tool to better understand what people are saying about their brand. This service, widely offered by media monitoring companies, picks up comments and assigns a “sentiment” to each, aggregating results to determine overall sentiment for a certain day, week, month, or year.  These reports can […]

How To Keep Your Marketing “Voice” Relevant As Your Industry Evolves

Terri Waters
As a brand manager or CMO, you know all the key points to sell your product or service. You know how to phrase the benefits, whether it’s “time-saving,” “faster response,” “best in class,” “energy efficient” or other descriptive terms. You know how to find the benefits and separate them from the features. Marketing 101. While […]

PR: The budget-friendly option for driving brand awareness

Terri Waters
When planning budgets, marketing professionals sometimes overlook an important piece of the marketing pie, not realizing that it offers multiple advantages and can often be done for a fraction of the cost of print and digital advertising. What is this secret bullet that deserves your attention? Drumroll, please…it’s public relations, or PR for short. However […]

Brands need to take a stand…at least that’s what consumers are saying

Tim Leon
As our agency has been blogging and posting about for the last 18 months, brands are being asked to take a stand on social, cultural and societal issues that face our world. Studies have shown that brand loyalty can be positively impacted by brands that take a stand on issues. And consumers want these brands […]

Your Audience Is Online Waiting. But Where Will You Find Them?

Shawn Maher
It’s a simple fact right now: whether it’s business or play, we’re going to be doing it online. So where on social media is your audience social distancing? Other than online video conferencing services, of course, because that’s a no-brainer to businesses at this point.  But when it comes to reaching your target audience, consistent […]

What next? Let your customers and employees know your plans moving forward.

As organizations are navigating how to operate in this new environment, it’s critical to let their internal and external audiences know what to expect. In these uncertain times, employees and customers want to know there is a plan in place to deal with unexpected business disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Geile/Leon Marketing Communications is […]

The New Normal: Empathy

Let’s get this out of the way: this is a blog concerning the COVID-19 outbreak. But I’m hoping it provides marketers a simple solution to how to address your marketing and messaging for the next few months. It may not be a cure-all, but there is a way to move forward – a way to […]

The Coronavirus Makes Corona Viral

Shawn Maher
By now, it’s hard to be a person alive in the world and be unaware of the Coronavirus. We’re not here to talk about illnesses and pandemics. There are scientists, doctors and experts who know far, far, FAR more about…you guessed it…science than we do. However, Coronavirus has spilled into our area of expertise, and […]

Missed Media Opportunities: Industry Trade Shows

Mary Sawyer
Think about it: Doesn’t it make sense to get to make an effort to educate media similarly to the way you’d educate a prospective customer?
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