{"id":18619,"date":"2020-06-16T11:29:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T11:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nobraineragency.com\/seo\/https-www-nobraineragency-co-uk-blog-media-relations-the-old-ways-of-marketing-and-pr-arent-working-anymore\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:24:10","slug":"old-ways-of-marketing-and-pr-arent-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobraineragency.com\/business\/old-ways-of-marketing-and-pr-arent-working\/","title":{"rendered":"The old ways of marketing and PR aren\u2019t working anymore\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
When I was a news reporter back in the late 90s I used to walk to the fax machine on the hour every hour. I\u2019d also read piles of post at least twice a day.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d go and meet people face-to-face, for coffee or beers, to discuss stories.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d pound the streets, visiting shops, police, attractions, community centres.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d sit in court or council meetings for hours on end.<\/p>\n
I wrote in a pad with an actual pen and always had a few spares in case one ran out.<\/p>\n
I picked up an actual phone and spoke to people.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019d be called by countless PR agencies who were pushing their latest press releases from their clients and wonder what on earth they were doing trying to \u2018sell-in\u2019 such a terrible story.<\/p>\n
In just over 20 years, the only one of these that doesn\u2019t seem to have changed is the last one.<\/p>\n
PR isn\u2019t what it used to be\u2026. Most of the time<\/h3>\n
The amount of people who still think PR is only about writing press releases and generating media profile genuinely baffles me.<\/p>\n
There are still plenty of PR agencies who think this too by the way.<\/p>\n
But we\u2019re not one of them.<\/p>\n
Instead, we think the old ways of marketing and PR just simply aren\u2019t working any more.<\/p>\n
Thinking of marketing in silos is outdated \u2013 particularly in a world when marketing channels are converging more than ever.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s why Lee and I set up No Brainer, and it\u2019s why we hire people who share the same mindset.<\/p>\n
Creative Intelligence<\/h3>\n
This is why we devised our \u2018Creative Intelligence\u2019 model when we set up five years ago, and it still stands the test of time to this day.<\/p>\n
In fact, with all the data we now have at our disposal, we believe it may now be more relevant than ever. The ways of measuring the reach of our work are boundless.<\/p>\n
Creative Intelligence, put simply, is centred around the function of the brain \u2013 left brain (intelligence) and right brain (creativity).<\/p>\n
By combining left and right brain thinking, instead of developing content that might look great but deliver nothing, we develop campaigns that are built on a foundation of insight and data to drive meaningful results.<\/p>\n
Once we have this clarity for our clients \u2013 the intelligence, data, analytics, audience profiles, message clarity, and KPIs that relate to them and only them \u2013 we can bring to life genuinely impactful creative and thought-provoking ideas in many compelling ways.<\/p>\n
But, critical to all of this is how these ideas and campaigns are delivered<\/span>.<\/p>\n