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BBC Apprentice Series 12 Episode 4 – Department Store

By Lyndon Johnson On December 12, 2016 · Add Comment · In BBC Apprentice, Branding, Marketing, Public Relations, Toronto
BBC Apprentice Series 12 Episode 4 – Department Store In the BBC Apprentice Series 12 Episode 4 “Department Store” task there’s only one product here for me… the scarves. It’s the primary reason that tourists visit Liberty.  Choosing the scarves as well as creating an interactive window display in order to show them off.  It should captureContinue Reading
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Stop Marketing Like a Fortune 500 Company. Start marketing like a startup.

By Lyndon Johnson On December 8, 2016 · Add Comment · In Communications Strategy, Lean Communications Framework, Lean Communications Methodology, Marketing, Public Relations, Toronto
Stop marketing like a Fortune 500 company. Start marketing like a startup. One of the most common mistakes I see entrepreneurs make is trying to emulate the strategies of Fortune 500 companies. Either that or they try to copy what others have done in the hope that it delivers the same results for their business. Stop marketingContinue Reading
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Startup PR & Marketing | Disciplines & Tools Explained

By Lyndon Johnson On December 7, 2016 · Add Comment · In Communications Strategy, Lean Communications Framework, Marketing, Public Relations, Toronto
This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while. It’s important. I frequently have a conversation with entrepreneurs explaining the difference between communications disciplines – PR, marketing & publicity – and the implementation tools used to deliver campaigns. There’s a lot of confusion, both inside the industry and amongst entrepreneurs and itContinue Reading
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Why public relations is infrastructure – not a plugin

By Lyndon Johnson On December 2, 2016 · Add Comment · In Lean Communications Framework, Lean Communications Methodology, Public Relations, Toronto
Why public relations is infrastructure – not a plugin Public relations has a reputation for being something businesses turn to when they need to generate awareness.  It’s something that most founders want to turn on – like a tap – when they need it expecting almost instant results. But, it doesn’t work like that.  Turning on a tapContinue Reading
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Content vs. Journalism. Free Publicity vs. Free Press.

By Lyndon Johnson On November 22, 2016 · Add Comment · In Communications Strategy, Lean Communications Methodology, Public Relations, Publicity, Toronto
  Content Vs. Journalism. Free Publicity Vs. Free Press. The topics of ‘Content Vs. Journalist. Free Publicity Vs. Free Press.’ have come up in recent weeks. Here I explain the difference and why the terms are not interchangeable. For more posts like this visit https://comms.bar
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8 riskiest assumptions that cause PR and marketing failure

By Lyndon Johnson On September 28, 2016 · Add Comment · In Communications Strategy, Lean Communications Framework, Lean Communications Methodology, Public Relations, Toronto
8 riskiest assumptions that cause PR and marketing failure After almost 20 years working with startups & small businesses these are the top 8 risky assumptions that cause PR and Marketing failure: You’re extrapolating vanity metrics – like shares, tone of voice, sentiment, likes and RTs – in order to measure business impact You know who theContinue Reading
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Donald Trump’s PR Problem

By Lyndon Johnson On August 29, 2016 · Add Comment · In Communications Strategy, Public Relations, Strategy, Toronto
Donald Trump’s PR Problem Donald Trump has a serious PR problem – that will keep him out of the White House For Donald Trump to become the next President of the United States, he need strong relationships with both his core supporters that embrace his extreme policies AND more moderate Republican voters.  That’s no meanContinue Reading
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PR, Marketing & Publicity – The Future is Lean

By Lyndon Johnson On August 12, 2016 · 1 Comment · In #AgileMarketing, Agile Marketing, Communications Strategy, Lean Agile, Lean Communications Framework, Lean Communications Methodology, Marketing, Measurement, Public Relations, Publicity, Strategy, Toronto
Making pr and marketing affordable, accessible, transparent & measurable for entrepreneurs A few years ago I started to think about a better way for entrepreneurs to get access to, use and measure the value of PR, marketing & publicity. How could I help entrepreneurs use PR and marketing in order to grow their businesses? I didContinue Reading
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Apple needs to do more than sell iPhones

By Lyndon Johnson On July 26, 2016 · Add Comment · In $AAPL, Branding, Communications Strategy, Lean Communications Methodology, Marketing, Public Relations, Strategy, Toronto
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Thoughts on AMEC Integrated Evaluation Framework

By Lyndon Johnson On June 22, 2016 · 2 Comments · In Communications Strategy, Lean Communications Framework, Lean Communications Methodology, Measurement, Public Relations, Publicity, Toronto
How we #MeasurePR needs to change – and anything that helps measure the commercial impact of public relations, marketing and publicity is a good thing as far as I’m concerned.  It’s been a topic of discussion for many years within the industry – the last 20 that I’ve been working in communications but there haven’t beenContinue Reading
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