Art of Small Talk – How PR Helps with People Skills

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Mark Macias

PR helps build your business, but on a personal level, it can also make you a better communicator and sales person.

A few years ago, I worked with the founder of a hedge fund who wasn’t the best communicator with the media. He made a lot of mistakes when speaking with reporters.

But after a few months, I noticed his delivery got better. He also confided in me that his sales pitches got better. Our media training helped him learn how to better communicate with investors.

You can read more about media training here, but here are 5 Ways PR can help you communicate better in person. I originally wrote this editorial for Entrepreneur Magazine. Here’s a shortened version of that article, highlighting how PR skills can help with in-person social events.

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Biggest Content Marketing Mistakes

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Mark Macias

By Mark Macias

Content marketing is critical to search engines. If you’re doing it wrong, you don’t exist to consumers since they won’t see you on searches.

Lately, I’ve been receiving a lot of emails from companies and brands, asking if they can publish their content on MACIAS PR. I suspect they see our great SEO and appearance on the first page of Google, so they want to join our party.

That is not effective content marketing for both the brand and your SEO. Don’t let other companies or brands leverage your blog.

Unless you’re a huge company, like Starbucks, your blog should be devoted solely to your brand. Don’t create clutter or confusion to your readers.

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Behind the Scenes of PR Agency – What PR is Really Like

Posted on February 16, 2021 by Mark Macias

It’s not always pretty in PR but like the caption says, we get it done. MACIAS PR is scrappy in our approach, and the end result is pure beauty for our clients.

But don’t take our word for it. Let us show you a few of the media placements we have placed for our clients over the last 2 weeks.

Local TV Media Placements

MACIAS PR has already secured 4 TV segments for our digital health client during the month of February. The TV segments aired in Tampa Bay, Kansas City, Dallas and Houston. Three of those four markets are top 20 media markets.

So how did we do it?

We came up with conversation topics to get our client on the news. In early February, everyone was talking about the Super Bowl. So we created a campaign around the two quarterbacks playing in the game.

Our agency came up with a creative way to measure the nutrition stats of the two quarterbacks to see how it would impact their game. Here’s a look at how the segment ran in Kansas City.