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Top 5 Mistakes Made When Hiring a Website Designer
After decades of working with business owners and nonprofit leaders, I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to hiring a website designer and developer. Large organizations aren’t immune to the mistakes outlined below, but small businesses (and...
Thrive PR and Marketing Predictions for 2025
Each January, social media feeds and email inboxes are inundated with prophesies for the new year. While I typically avoid adding to the noise, 2025 promises such significant shifts that I feel compelled to share my top 5 PR and marketing predictions for the year...
Is it Time to Rebrand Your Business?
When It May Be Time to Rebrand Your Business Sooner or later, almost every business or nonprofit faces the question: Is it time to rebrand? If you’ve ever entertained this thought (and even if you haven’t), consider the following: Your founder created your logo based...
Thrive Dallas Agency Wins 5 Top Awards for PR, Marketing, Social Media, Digital Communications, More
Thrive PR, a Dallas/Fort Worth-based full service strategic and marketing communications agency that services clients around the country, took home FIVE top Worthy Awards across FIVE categories from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Greater Fort Worth...
Thrive PR Wins National PRSA Silver Anvil Award of Excellence
Thrive PR, a Dallas/Fort Worth-based strategic communications and creative agency founded in 2003, recently received a national PRSA Silver Anvil Strategic Award of Excellence in the Internal Communications category at the 2023 Public Relations Society of America...
7 Marketing Predictions: What Will NOT Change in 2023
In a month filled with posts about 2023 trends and predictions, we’re turning the tables to talk about 7 marketing “trends” we predict will always be in fashion. 1. Good content will always win. How content is delivered, its format, where it’s delivered and how...
Thrive PR Wins 4 PRSA Dallas Awards and Small Agency of the Year Finalist
Thrive PR, a Dallas/Fort Worth-based strategic communications and creative agency founded in 2003, won FOUR Pegasus Awards from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Dallas and was honored as a Small Agency of the Year Finalist during the PRSA Dallas 2022...
Thrive PR wins PRSA Awards for Integrated Communications and Social Media
Thrive PR has helped clients apply for and win countless awards during our nearly two decades in business. We finally did that for own company this year, when we applied for a Greater Fort Worth PRSA Worthy Award in two categories: Integrated Communications and Social...
Thrive PR Wins Two Dallas PRSA 2021 Pegasus Awards
Thrive PR won TWO Dallas PRSA Pegasus Awards of Honor for our strategic communications work on the Vote for Better Transit Campaign for Tarrant Transit Alliance (TTA). We won in 2 categories: SOCIAL MEDIA and MOST EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN ON A BUDGET. The Project: Tarrant...
10 Tips for Getting (and Staying) Top of Mind With Customers
We all want more clients, but how do we get them? And then, how do we keep them? If they don’t know about you, they can’t buy from you, so building awareness is key to gaining clients. If they don’t remember you, they won’t buy from you, so being “top of mind” is...
Don’t Waste a Conference Experience: 6 Lessons Learned
I attended a business conference earlier this month, and I had to drag myself there, kicking and screaming. Why? Oh, I was busy…I had too much work to do…I had family members who needed me… The excuses went on. Luckily, I hate to waste money, and I knew this about...
Ten Things I’ve Learned after a Decade in Business, from Kelly Kirkendoll, Owner of Thrive PR
Thrive PR celebrated its 10-year anniversary in 2013. As we start the New Year and a new decade of service to clients, I’m reflecting for a moment before I dive deep into the busy first quarter… First, I want to extend my gratitude to the clients we have worked with...