If you’ve been cheaping out and trying to DIY all the marketing or public relations tasks for your company, you’re really making life hard for yourself. There are some fantastic platforms that take a lot of the effort out of marketing and PR, and they’re not as expensive as you’d think.
If you can identify with any of the following signs, it’s time to turn to technology to get some of your marketing and PR done.
Sign 1: You Have No Idea What People Are Saying About Your Brand
Your mom just called to tell you that someone tweeted something nasty about your company. Your mom, dude. Why aren’t you monitoring mentions of your brand on social media? Probably because you’re too busy doing everything else in your business.
Social media monitoring tools would alert you when someone spouts ugly about your company online, and then you could actually do something to keep it from snowballing.
Sign 2: You’re Manually Researching for Influencers and Journalists
You want journalists and bloggers to write about your brand, but you’re overwhelmed with finding the right ones. So you do nothing.
If only you had a database of media contacts you could sift through…wouldn’t that make your life easier? PS: it exists!
Sign 3: You’re Not Getting the Distribution You Want with Free Press Release Services
In an effort to save a little cash, you’re publishing press releases on dozens of free distribution sites…and are pretty disappointed with the results. You know what they say: you get what you pay for.
Rather than wasting countless hours (but saving money! Oh yea, saving money…sorta) manually submitting to unreputable press release distribution sites that don’t charge, shell out a little bit of cash and get better results, and your time back. Seriously: you can publish a press release for as little as $99. You spend more than that at Starbucks in a week.
Sign 4: You Log into 5 Different Social Sites to Get Analytics
Any time you want to tweet or update Facebook, you log into that site. You do the same to look at analytics to see how your efforts are doing. And all that work is time-consuming.
A better option is using a dashboard that integrates all the social media channels you use into one place that you can view analytics and insights.
While you can’t (and shouldn’t) completely put your marketing and PR on autopilot, technology can make your work easier, and help you stay on top of what’s important.
