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On Managing Purpose-Driven Brands
Rebranding Brand
As we’re facing the employment crisis of the Great Resignation, organizations are looking at their internal brand as a way to create structures that keep employees engaged and happy in their current positions. Brand Strategy and Creative Director Morgan Burns discusses how a purpose-driven brand can help earn the trust of consumers.
Behind the Scenes of an Employer of Choice
Kane presents this webinar for businesses and organizations who want to go behind the scenes of various “employers of choice” and find out what they’ve got that we can learn from.
What Employers Need to Know About the State of Working Women in Wisconsin
Kane presents this webinar for businesses and organizations who want to learn about the recently-released Kane Insights report on Wisconsin working women. We discuss steps employers can take with a panel of Wisconsin women leaders.
Develop a Personal Brand for the Job You Want
Personal branding is one of the most important assets to success. Brand and Creative Director Morgan Burns shares May Busch’s story in redefining her personal brand to transform her career path.
Brand Crush: Sol Coffee
Since we are major fans of storytelling and brands here at Kane, we’ve decided to share some love for our favorite brands. Read our first “Brand Crush” piece where senior creative advisor, Eric Sandoval, discusses what he loves most about the Sol Coffee brand.
How Has COVID Changed Your Audience?
In partnership with the Wisconsin Chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services, Kane presents this webinar for businesses and organizations who want to learn about what brands are doing to reach and resonate with their audience after COVID has changed their habits and values.
The Art of Creative Concepting
Creative concepting produces creative ideas that are informed and strategic. These ideas have the potential to motivate an uninspired consumer to buy, change the perception of a long-time user of a service, or even recruit new members to an organization. Having a team focused on developing new creative ideas is invaluable to an organization that is looking for opportunities for growth or expansion.
Executive Branding in a Digital World
A company’s executives can be a marketer’s greatest tool for moving the needle on your business objectives. Studies show that when an executive has a strong personal brand, it impacts everything from the company’s ability to recruit and retain talent, to the generation of new business to the company’s market value.
Trust and Brand-Building During COVID-19
We may be getting tired of the phrase, “the new normal.” But it is apparent that the COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping how we do business, where we do business and with whom we do business.
How to Be an Employer of Choice During a Crisis
In this webinar, Kimberly Kane sat down with three Milwaukee business leaders to capture their advice on how businesses can ensure they maintain strong cultures that help attract and retain great talent during and after the current COVID-19 crisis.
Kane Communications Group Announces Addition of Brand Journalism to Firm's Services
Kane Communications Group, a full-service public relations and integrated marketing firm located in downtown Milwaukee, announces the launch of its brand journalism practice. Brand journalism takes stories beyond press releases to create a compelling journalism-style narrative with real news value. Kane’s team brings nearly 60 years of combined award-winning journalism experience across multiple disciplines including print, broadcast and digital to this new practice.
Telling Your Company Story Through Brand Journalism
You have a great idea for a story. It meets a key business goal for your company or your client. It’s newsworthy. It’s visual. You can provide access and interviews. You have the perfect media target. So you pick up the phone to make your pitch to a reporter.
Kane Communications Group Selected to Present at PRSA 2019 International Conference
Kane Communications Group has been selected to present on strategic communications and reputation management at the Public Relations Society of America’s International Conference in San Diego later this month. Kimberly Kane, president and CEO, and Sarah Fracek, vice president of strategy and marketing will deliver a presentation called “Strategic Communications: An Essential Risk Management Tool” on Tuesday, October 22.
Everyday Stories, Life-Changing Tales
Good stories are all around. You just have to look, listen and ask the right questions.
As communications consultants, we constantly search for stories to help share our clients’ messages and demonstrate their impact. Many of our clients are in the health and human services sector. The work they do has a tremendous impact on the community and individuals alike, changing people’s lives every single day.
Milwaukee County Nurse Recruitment Campaign Receives International Award
The campaign challenges nurses who “have what it takes” to apply to be mental health nurses for Milwaukee County.
Kane Receives International MarCom Award
Kane recognized with highest honors for concept, creative and execution of nurse recruitment campaign.
Protecting your brand in an era of fake news
The fake news of today represents a real problem both for people seeking information and companies, organizations, politicians, etc. who are sharing it. Fake news generally starts with a modicum of truth and it appeals to values and beliefs that resonate with each of us. Today, this misinformation is cheap to produce and can go viral in an instant. This may be all people need to make a decision or a mistake. Here are 5 ways Kane suggests to help companies and individuals protect themselves.