What’s in a PR Plan? 5 Key Elements of a Comprehensive PR Strategy

PR is usually seen as a sling shot approach to generating more awareness and ultimately more sales (or customers)…and the measurement tool used is usually based on how many media hits or feature story placements are secured. When that doesn’t happen, it’s back to the drawing board…but the truth is that PR is much more [...]

New Client News: Connecting Our Cultures Setting Guinness World Record

Setting a Guinness World Record™ is monumental and symbolic. Building a symbol of unity as a community of villages representing diverse cultures – and then doing so while setting this world record – is even larger than life. Blueprint Creative Group is managing the marketing communications, PR execution, and social media fundraising strategy for Connecting [...]

New Client News: City of North Miami Marketing & Public Education Campaign

We’ve been contracted by the City of North Miami- Miami’s 4th largest city with 60,000 residents- to develop and execute a marketing and public education campaign for its proposed annexation plans for a small enclave surrounded by the City’s boundaries. As part of the marketing campaign, our role is to educate the residents about the [...]

Social Causes That Get Twitter Right- Tweetsgiving Case Study

Tweetsgiving is a social media charity drive that mobilizes the Twitter community to Tweet their gratitude and fundraise for a specific social causes in a 48-hour time period. The following case study highlights a successful social media fundraising strategy that resulted in close to $11,000 raised in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. [...]

How to Get the Most Out of Press Releases

People get so caught up in the news release when the truth is that most are poorly written, are filled with so much self puffery and very little news, and/or sent to the wrong people who can’t do anything with the release in the first place. Small businesses especially fall for the belief that press [...]

20 Point Crisis Communications Checklist for When Disaster Strikes

The last few weeks of 2011 saw an astonishing number of public crisis arise at corporate giants, colleges and universities, and even well respected brands. When they needed a plan the most, many of these organizations failed and severely bruised their reputation, public humiliation, and sometimes even sales. The truth is that is not about [...]

7 Tips to Accomplishing Marketing Goals in 2012

In just the blink of an eye, 2011 will be behind us and 2012 will be staring us dead in the face. Besides the normal challenges that come with planning for a new year, many companies simply struggle to maintain top of mind awareness and this eventually has a negative impact on brand positioning, public [...]

10 Reasons Your Non-profit Should Be Active on Twitter

It still amazes me how a large majority of non-profits are such laggards when it comes to marketing and especially with social media. I know that marketing budgets are especially tight these days, but that’s still no excuse why many organizations fail to create real social media engagement programs. We moderate a webinar for non-profits [...]

Why Your Press Release Doesn’t Get Noticed

The last thing a reporter/journalist needs is another press release and a poorly written one at that. From my guess and judging by the number of press releases I see published across news wires on a daily basis, my guestimate is that a journalist receives anywhere from 50-200 press releases in their inbox on any [...]

How to Use Social Media for Non-profit Success

Last week, I had the honor of being invited by the Associate Dean of the University of Miami’s School of Education to present a lesson before a Master’s Degree level Non-profit Management course for those either work within the non-profit sector, currently run an organization, or have an interest in starting a non-profit. Being the [...]

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