Doing The Last-Second Launch Hokey-Pokey
You know how to do the Hokey Pokey, right? You’re in, you’re out, you shake things up and spin around. Finally, you end up right back where you started, but with newfound satisfaction: “That’s what it’s all about.” Sometimes, that’s exactly how a press release goes. Caster knows these steps well. Last month, a client […]
How Caster Supports Clients at Trade Shows
I love putting on a show. Weeks of hard work, late nights and practice beyond the point of perfection, all for that glorious moment where you share it with the world: It’s an electrifying high. No wonder that, once my high school theater and college a cappella days were behind me, I found myself drawn […]
Layoff Messaging for Tech Companies
The pandemic hiring spree was a zero-interest rate phenomenon: We’ve seen over 300,000 tech layoffs in the past two years, and we’re on track to hit half a million total by 2025. Throughout this nonstop cycle of tech layoff news, we’ve seen every communication approach imaginable, from graceful statements to disorganized scrambling and shamefaced silence. […]
Linda Yaccarino and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Interview
What execs can learn from the X CEO’s nightmare Code Conference appearance It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Linda Yaccarino. On September 27, she participated in her most prominent outing yet as CEO of X, sitting with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin at Code Conference. It did not go well. The media called the interview […]
What is PR Worth?
Data is a religion among business leaders. Leading indicators are prophets, and lagging indicators form a holy text. Investments are laid at the altar of better data insights: 91.9 percent of Fortune 100 executives say they’re accelerating their companies’ investments in big data systems. At the same time, only 24 percent of those same executives […]