How to build a winning social media strategy
Social media has proven to be an important tool that can help a business increase awareness about their brand, reach a large audience and educate new and current customers. According to a recently published article in Forbes magazine, 90 percent of social media users follow at least one brand and the average person spends 145 minutes on social media each day. With…
6 Essential Tips for Keeping Your Business Safe on Social Media
Social media can be a powerful tool for promoting your business, but it also comes with security risks. Hackers are constantly looking for ways to steal personal information, spread malware, and launch phishing scams on social media platforms. To protect your business from these threats, it’s important to follow some basic security guidelines. In this blog post, we’ll share six essential tips…
3 simple ways to improve your SEO
In public relations, we tend to find ourselves in charge of websites for a number of reasons. Whether it be for a client’s company page, our own website or running a blog feed, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) shows us how our content fares on the vast internet. The goal is to have your site appear high on the results list from search…
5 things in PR that make us (and our clients!) merry
There are plenty of things around the holidays that make us merry here at Eclipse, such as spending time with our families, going on vacations and eating lots of yummy foods. Luckily for us, we don’t stop being merry once the holidays go by! Here are five things about public relations that continue to make us (and our clients) smile all through…
5 Mobile Apps that Bring Us Joy
The holiday season for 2021 is here and there’s no question that this is an extremely busy time. For public relations professionals, this is when we compile strategic plans for content, identify editorial opportunities for the New Year and engage in budget planning sessions with clients. It’s a juggling act, but we have a few favorite mobile apps that ensure we have…
The Graveyard of Social Media
If you looked at most smartphones, the odds of finding Facebook, Twitter or Instagram downloaded would be very high. These social channels, along with many others, have become a normal part of our lives as well as our social interaction with others. However, buried six feet under the ground lies plenty of social media that did not stand the test of time….
Podcasts you should be listening to | International Podcast Day
We’ve put together a few of these blogs over the years, being avid podcast listeners, and they mostly center around public relations and professional podcasts. International Podcast Day was a few days ago, so it’s fitting for us to highlight some of our favorites— both serious and some that just keep us sane. PR in the technology industry can mean hours and…
Step by Step: How to create an Instagram Reel
There are plenty of ways to garner attention from your followers but keeping your page dynamic with multiple forms of media is imperative to keep engagement high. Videos and animated posts catch the eye of social media scrollers, so creating content such as Reels can provide the extra push that your page needs to stand out. Reels are relatively new to the…
Back to blogging basics: Five steps to optimizing your content
So, you started a blog…what now? It’s the question on every content developer’s mind. It’s what keeps us up at night or staring at an empty page on a screen. At times, it’s as if our ability to create meaningful sentences has left the building. We’ve all been there. When it comes to writing blogs – whether you’re an agency developing content…
15 steps to good PR
Are you a public relations professional or someone looking to start a career in PR? Maybe you work with a PR team or want to simply learn more about what public relations is all about. Whatever the case, it’s important to keep in mind some important steps to help you navigate this complex world of communications. When working in an agency, you…