Start Your Day with the Right Marketing Mindset – Four Tips to Create a Successful Daily PR Routine

A number of years ago, I spoke with a colleague about ways to be more productive and efficient. We started talking about The Ivy Lee Method, a 100-year-old strategy that has been proven to help people save time and reduce wasted energy. Under this method, you should focus on one task at a time, going from… Continue reading Start Your Day with the Right Marketing Mindset – Four Tips to Create a Successful Daily PR Routine

Media Moment: Gena Wynkoop

What’s your favorite article you’ve ever written? Why?  That is tough! I love writing stories that I connect to personally and emotionally. Due to the light-hearted nature of my work, It’s not every day I can come in and write a piece that is super heartfelt and something that I connect with. I think it’s rare that writers have an opportunity to do that,… Continue reading Media Moment: Gena Wynkoop

5 Ways to Use Your Blog to Manage a Crisis

Here are 5 things to keep in mind: Just like in normal times when your blog serves as your most honest and credible voice, you’ll find it to be your best channel of communication when a crisis situation puts your communications preparedness to a hard test. By Dominique Biquard – IDENTIA / PR This article… Continue reading 5 Ways to Use Your Blog to Manage a Crisis

Media Moment: Therese Fitzgerald

Therese Fitzgerald is the Senior Editor for Commercial Property Executive and Multi-Housing News. What is your best piece of advice for PR professionals reaching out to CPE or MHN? Pitching us by email is probably the best way to reach us and we welcome pitches for features and bylines. News is an important aspect of… Continue reading Media Moment: Therese Fitzgerald

Media Moment: Brandon Richardson

After that, school was all journalism classes and conferences representing the school’s newspaper and magazine. The morning of my graduation, June 2016 (a Thursday), I had an interview with the Long Beach Business Journal (LBBJ). I was hired the following Monday. To be able to work for a publication in the city I was born… Continue reading Media Moment: Brandon Richardson

Employee Advocacy Can Improve PR

We could say that PR is the octopus head and body, researching, understanding and pumping out the information, creating the strategies, the messages, defining the audiences and the employee advocates are the tentacles of that octopus, transporting all this to multiple target audiences and persuading them that your client’s company or brand is the best.… Continue reading Employee Advocacy Can Improve PR

Five ways to destress in a stress-inducing industry

Write everything down With countless deadlines, names, and bits of information floating around, set yourself up for success by simply writing down pertinent details or tasks that need to get done. Whether you go through these notes at the end of every day or once a week, you’ll never have to worry about forgetting something.… Continue reading Five ways to destress in a stress-inducing industry

Media Moment: Dennis Lynch

What do you enjoy about journalism and real estate? From the outside, real estate is an intimidating beat to cover. I had never covered anything as complex before I started at The Real Deal and it’s been rewarding and fun to learn how the machine works. That’s true about anything you cover. The most exciting… Continue reading Media Moment: Dennis Lynch

Six Tips for Managing Social Media for a Business, Client or Brand

Have a good calendar This may seem like common knowledge, but many people just fly by the seat of their pants when it comes to social media. This can be attributed to the fact that personal accounts tend to involve less planning and more spontaneity. Having a schedule in place is imperative to maintaining a… Continue reading Six Tips for Managing Social Media for a Business, Client or Brand

Media Moment: Wendy Bowman Littler

Tell us a bit about yourself and your freelance life. I worked as a full-time columnist and editor for Atlanta Business Chronicle for 15 years. After traveling to California frequently on vacation, I decided to buy a little place in Laguna Beach. I began spending more and more time in Laguna, so I asked my… Continue reading Media Moment: Wendy Bowman Littler

International Women’s Day

In honor of International Women’s Day, we wanted to spotlight all of the incredible women at The Hoyt Organization. We asked them three insightful questions: 1. If you could have dinner with any woman, living or dead, real or fictional, who would it be and why? 2. Who is your female role model? 3. What does… Continue reading International Women’s Day

7 Pieces of Advice on Public Relations

1. Expand your horizons It’s no longer just public relations. Its digital, marketing, special events, social media. Keep learning. Don’t ignore learning the business side of the industry. How are profits generated? Where are the future new business contracts coming from? Then, you’ll be well positioned for the future.   2. Stay on top of… Continue reading 7 Pieces of Advice on Public Relations

Media Moment: An Interview with Jillian Spokely

Jillian Spokely, tell us a bit about your path into real estate? What do you like about working in the luxury residential sector? I got into real estate in 2016, shortly after moving to California. Previous to LA, I was living in Minneapolis, MN working at an advertising agency and bartending on nights & weekends.… Continue reading Media Moment: An Interview with Jillian Spokely

Behind Every Great Public Relations Professional, There’s a Solid Office Manager

Here are some suggestions from a seasoned administrative professional to ensure that your day, your staff and your work life run smoothly, and the office interactions are as seamless as possible: Communication is key. The irony of this statement is not lost on the author. It’s a classic case of the cobbler’s children not having… Continue reading Behind Every Great Public Relations Professional, There’s a Solid Office Manager

Media Moment: An Interview with Orest Mandzy

Orest Mandzy, tell us a bit about yourself and your path to Commercial Real Estate Direct. It’s funny, but I didn’t really study journalism in college. I have a business degree, but I’ve always loved writing, so when I was a sophomore in college (I went to Baruch College, which is part of the City… Continue reading Media Moment: An Interview with Orest Mandzy