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Wordle Statistics for 2022

[social_warfare]Wordle Statistics for 2022 It’s not an overstatement to say that Wordle took the world by storm in 2022. For those in the know early on, Wordle took off like a rocket ship and spread via word of mouth and social media. For those who didn’t, they would soon know what those green and yellow …

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Firecracker PR is a Top-Tier Minority-Owned Business on Clutch

We are pleased to announce that Firecracker PR has been certified by Clutch as a Top-Tier Minority-Owned Business. One of the privileges of operating a public relations agency is the diverse range of companies, entrepreneurs and CEOs we’ve had the pleasure of working with.  No matter their ethnicity, background or personal opinions, what drove them …

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Why Social Media is a Waste of Time, and What You Should be Doing Instead

How much time have you spent on doing social media? How much time have you spent figuring out if there’s any positive ROI to those social media activities? If you’ve spent any amount of time peering into the statistics of your posts, you’ll see that the numbers are dismal. The truth of the matter is, …

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Four Ways Public Relations Can Help Fundraising (O’Dwyer’s article)

Many of Firecracker PR’s clients are high growth companies who are in the seed or Series A stage of funding. They come to us specifically because they are looking to harness the power of media relations to facilitate their fundraising. Here’s an article I wrote in the November 2020 issue of O’Dwyer’s on how PR …

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Firecracker PR Named Top Corporate Reputation PR Firm 2020

We just received some exciting news from Clutch! They’ve named us as one of the world’s top corporate reputation PR firms for 2020. Corporate reputation is vitally important to any business, with a positive corporate reputation advantageous in all aspects of business. (In fact, I even recently wrote a book on the very topic called …

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Why Doing PR for SaaS is So Painful (O’Dwyer’s Article)

I recently had the privilege of writing an article that eventually ran in O’Dwyer’s November 2019 special issue on technology. O’Dwyer’s is the public relations & communications industry standard magazine. The topic was one that I’ve been coming across more and more recently. Hopefully you’ll find this useful: Why Doing PR for SaaS is So …

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The 1 Key to Successful PR (Part 2)

Last post I talked about what the single most important ingredient was to a successful PR campaign: storytelling. Storytelling is powerful because at our core, all of us want to be told a story. The most gifted writers and speakers are those who know how to spin a good story. Truth be told, any business or …

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The 1 Key to Successful PR

PR isn’t easy. In fact, out of all the different marketing tactics out there, PR could be one of the most difficult. Not difficult like engineering is difficult. But difficult in the sense that achieving media coverage consistently isn’t easy. Today I want to teach you the single most important secret to being more successful …

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The 1 Key to Successful Content Marketing

Most content marketing efforts fail and it usually isn’t pretty. Companies can spend tons of budget and time on creating beautiful content. They toil for months, then post it on Facebook…and wait. Nothing happens. You can’t be faulted if at this point you think “content marketing is a waste of time”. It is if that’s …

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