When beginning your career in the industry there are skills and traits to learn in order to become an effective leader. Members of the Business Leadership Trust share the skills that helped them become better leaders, including our Principal and Founder Cooper Koch. Read the full article here.
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16 Leaders Share Common Business Challenges and What Can be Learned from Them
While education and mentorship are invaluable for business leaders, some of the best lessons come from experience — especially challenges. Conflicts, crises and failures can offer crucial insights that might not otherwise become apparent. Leaders who experience and learn from difficult situations often come back stronger and wiser than ever. Members of Business Journals Leadership Trust share some professional challenges that can […]
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My Reality: Cooper Koch on Incorporating More Humanity Into Your Interactions With Others (D CEO Magazine)
“One piece of advice I have is to let humanity more into your interactions with people. I make it my priority to know my employees as people because it helps me understand them. People’s life experiences, all the way back to their youth, impact the way they think about things. It’s our job to understand that part of it so […]
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Dallas Business Journal Ranks Cooper Smith Agency One of North Texas’ Top Public Relations Firms
For more than a decade, the Dallas-based PR, social media and product placement firm has earned a spot on the list Cooper Smith Agency, a Dallas-based PR firm specializing in media relations, social media and product placements for building materials, commercial real estate and construction clients, has again been recognized by Dallas Business Journal as one of the ‘Top North […]
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How Brands Are Using TikTok to Reach Young Audiences
By now, you’ve probably heard of TikTok, the newest social media app to take the internet by storm. The app has accumulated more than 500 million active users over two years and is making headlines as its memes, challenges and songs have gone viral. For example, the country trap hit “Old Town Road” first appeared via a meme on TikTok, […]
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Empower & Elevate: 3 Key Takeaways from the Sprout Social Index
Social media management company Sprout Social released a comprehensive guide to social marketing— The Sprout Social Index, Edition XV: Empower and Elevate. By surveying more than 1,000 social marketing experts about their goals, challenges and expectations, the study aims to understand the full potential of social media and how it can provide the most value to brands. The responses from […]
read moreHow to Fine Tune Your Brand Voice
One key element to establishing brand recognition is to create and abide by the guidelines of your brand voice. For example, is your brand serious like Rolex or goofy like Jack-in-the-Box? Brand voice establishes a personality that should drive all communications strategies. Start with your adjectives To determine your brand voice, begin by drafting a list of adjectives that come […]
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Football is Back… and so are the Commercials
Last weekend, football fans pulled out their jerseys, and marketers pulled out all the stops. According to the NFL, each game averages more than 20 million viewers, accounting for 46 of the top 50 most-watched fall shows on TV. That’s a lot of potential consumers! Below are a few of our favorite campaigns so far: Tide – “Not For Laundry” […]
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Marketing to the Modern Woman
The communications industry has come a long way when it comes to marketing to women. Historically, advertisements and branding campaigns were based on marginalizing and alienating women, like the below 1978 ad from Downy. While there is still progress to be made, professionals have finally begun to discover the correct ways to target female shoppers, as this target demographic has […]
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How Arielle Charnas Built a Brand Through Social Media
Arielle Charnas is one of the most well-known fashion influencers in the game, with more than 1.2 million Instagram followers, a blog and a subsequently successful fashion line called Something Navy. Her Nordstrom collection debuted last September, raking in a reported $4 million in sales in a single day, which president Pete Nordstrom claimed to be one of the “most […]
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