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B-to-B
Public Relations
No matter how strong your consumer-focused public relations strategy is, it’s important to understand that business-to-business PR is an entirely different animal. Well, maybe not an entirely different animal. If B2C PR is a cat, B2B PR is a tiger. If B2C PR is an orangutan, B2B PR is a baboon. Different species, same family. You get it.
To stand out from other businesses offering a similar product or service, you have to find your niche, identify your key differentiators, and hone in on your target persona. Not only do you have to consider what type of businesses might use your product or service, you also have to know about the decision makers at those companies. Who are they? What are their backgrounds? What gap does this fill in the marketplace, and crucially how does your product or service make their jobs easier?
We can help you answer the above questions. We know it can be difficult to see all facets of your brand in an objective way — it’s your baby, after all. What we bring to the table is years of experience (and fresh eyes) to help brands discover their differentiators, identify their “why us” and determine potential new target audiences before building a comprehensive marketing strategy to get the right stories in front of the right people.
When it comes to telling stories, our agency has a razor-sharp focus on leveraging the people behind the brand. That might mean digging into the founding story of the company, pulling out case studies of companies (and their people) who have used your product or service or positioning the CEO or other executives as thought leaders on a timely topic to relevant trade media outlets that are read by your target customers.
We’ve developed a proven process that helps us develop the right strategy for each brand to tell the right stories to the right people.
Checkers & Rally’s
BUSINESS INSIDER
Be prepared to work with whatever the future brings — “normal” won’t be back anytime soon
Eggs Up Grill
ENTREPRENEUR
When a Company Outgrows Its Founders: How a Little Breakfast Chain Plans to Go Big
Wings Zone & Topper’s Pizza
FORBES
How Grubhub’s Merger With Just Eat Takeaway Could Affect The U.S. Food Delivery Market
Big Blue Swim School
CNN BUSINESS
Losing to Michael Phelps helped turn this star swimmer into a successful entrepreneur
B-to-C
Public Relations
How many unread emails do you have in your inbox right now? How many emails are awaiting your reply, just as soon as you can find the time? Whatever the number is, it’s a safe bet the reporters at the national magazine you’re hoping to land a story in have it beat. So what are the chances one of those reporters is going to open up an email pitch from a stranger to read all about the great things your brand is doing and follow that through to produce a great story? Slim. Slim, but not zero, which is why most PR agencies treat pitching as a numbers game, sending out as many cold emails to as many reporters and outlets as possible, hoping that at least one fish will take the bait.
At Mainland, we’ve found a better way, one that allows us to build the right story and pitch it to the right reporter at the right news outlet. Our team of PR experts carefully craft media pitches that center around the human beings behind the brands. Because brands don’t sell brands, people do. Many PR professionals blast out a pitch to every reporter at a given outlet, but we do extensive research to determine which reporter is the best fit for our pitch before hitting send.
We build and nurture our media relationships so that our pitches are prioritized and received with eager interest. We learn everything about our media contacts so that we can craft stories that appeal directly to their interests. And when a story just isn’t catching on, we work tirelessly to find a new angle that will resonate.
It’s that mix of relationship building, creative storytelling and persistence that allows us to score wins for our clients in major outlets:
National PR
Placing your story into national conversations that are compelling to readers and impactful to your business.
Mighty Quinn’s Barbeque
GOOD MORNING AMERICA
NY restaurant owner turns brisket fat into artisan soap
Profile Sandford
WOMEN’S HEALTH
10 Intermittent Fasting Side Effects That Might Mean It’s Not A Great Fit For You
Local PR
Building buzz in the local community.
Workout Anytime
The Virginian-Pilot
Chesapeake native is pumped up about opening Workout Anytime franchises in the fall
Mighty Quinn’s Barbeque
EATER NEW YORK
Barbecue Hit Mighty Quinn’s Is Expanding Its NYC Empire With Two New Locations
Influencer/Blogger Partnerships
Leveraging your story to influence those who influence the masses.
BoConcept
CryoLuxe
How we further support brands with public relations
We build a detailed and customized PR plan for each story.
We build a robust media list of all potential reporters and outlets
We get creative to find non-traditional media with large audiences.
We build relationships and do our research to ensure we’re always talking to the right journalist.
We pitch stories that focus on human interest stories to drive interest from the media.
We never spam. We leverage relationships to pitch targeted stories that journalists want to read.
We stay on top of the news cycle so that we can effectively insert our clients into the news of the day.
We offer crisis management
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