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3 Ways to Give Back to Bloggers This Holiday Season

Photo Credit: hotelslive via Compfight cc By Kali BeanThe Hoffman Agency, Portland-Vancouver When you work in PR, sometimes you start to feel like that annoying friend. You know the one. She always wants something. She’s frustrated when you don’t return her messages. She only likes to talk about herself. And she gets angry when you’re…

The Deadly Sins of Blogger Relations

Photo Credit By Callie Gisler The Hoffman Agency, Portland-Vancouver In recent years, bloggers have become recognized as important content producers in the digital space. They come with an established personal brand and an audience that trusts them. What’s also important is that these writers are open to the out-of-the-box ideas that grab their reader’s attention….

When Your Friends Aren’t Football Fans: A Lesson on Knowing Your Audience

  By: Michelle Favalora The Hoffman Agency, San Jose It can be really easy to think about your audience in terms of what you want them to be. You might romanticize them, believing they all think and act just like you. In reality, your audience is made up of people with very diverse opinions and…

Let Me Take a Selfie … The Branded Version

By: Megan BauerThe Hoffman Agency, Portland-Vancouver The era of the #selfie is still in its infancy — even with the Oxford Dictionary naming it 2013’s word of the year. The continued momentum of this self-declared concept is currently in a time of transition — from selfies for oneself to selfies for brands. As with most…

Rethinking Retail’s Value Chain: From Transaction to Interaction

By Clara Liu The Hoffman Agency, Hong Kong Keeping up with the latest technology trends helps The Hoffman Agency effectively tell its clients’ stories. One of our “special interests” just happens to be mobile, particularly the way in which smartphones and tablets enhance consumers’ lives. Whether we’re talking about seamless mobile payments or trendy new…

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Brand Marketing Goes Wild: Facebook for the Dead

By Terence Yam The Hoffman Agency, Hong Kong Imagine what it would be like if Facebook existed in 1914.  Would Vladimir Lenin Instagram a picture of his breakfast? Would the defeat of the Russian army at Masurian Lakes have been caused by a soldier who leaked his location via check in?  There are more than…