On Twitter this morning, a European software company breathlessly hyped how something big was coming, and then two hours later released the exciting news that a “preview” version of its Website was now live!!! So please come by and please pass the excitement along … Dutifully, I clicked through because I had not heard of [...]

This is a press release issued today: Marketing communications firm pressDOOH has developed a special program intended to help industry firms “tune up” their communications in advance of the many digital signage trade shows and related events scheduled over the next few weeks and months. The “Message Tune-Up” program is aimed squarely at vendors, service [...]

It is really interesting to spend many years in this industry, pitching sets of pots and pans and trying to win over prospective customers … and then stepping back from the contest and realizing what’s going on. Damn near everyone is using the same sales pitch. I am talking suppliers. And I am talking operators. [...]

This post was also recently posted on the Website of the Digital Signage Association … How digital signage and digital out of home companies craft their communications on their Websites, handouts and in press releases is critical to their success. So why is so much of it so bad? The industry executives I speak with [...]

Readers will go to this information if they have made it all the way through the release, because you have done enough to intrigue them. So take it just as seriously as the rest of the piece. The footer is a distinct, and in some mechanical way, separated paragraph summary of your company. This is [...]