Evoc on Public Relations – II

In the first post of this two-part series, we saw how the function of public relations is used to perform two key roles for any public entity – marketing and advocacy. The role of marketing comes into fore whenever PR is directed at an entity’s customers. Also, recall that from a marketing perspective, customers include […]

Evoc on Public Relations – I

It is astounding to observe how public relations; when seen as an organizational function; continues to search for its identity with marketing as a frame of reference. Inside many client organizations, the PR or communications teams often seek to understand whether they are supposed to contribute to the marketing goals, or the organizational goals at […]

The problem with social media engagement

Marketers live and die by buzzwords. Engagement is one buzzword that has taken the intersecting worlds of marketing and communications by storm. Buzzwords that define a concept or seek to package an idea, as engagement is, find acceptance for two dominant reasons. The first is to adapt the traditional or accumulated knowledge base – the generally accepted […]

Why campaigns fail

A large number of advertising or communications campaigns fail to achieve the desired results. Many of us are familiar with how a typical scenario plays out. After two quarters have elapsed in running a promising new campaign, it is realized that the sales did not grow as expected. The market share stayed constant or worse, […]

Evoc on communications

As social entities, organizations have an intrinsic need for effective communications. One of the best-known definitions of marketing places communications as the key link between the creation of value by a business on one end, and the delivery of this value to customers on the other. Customers are but one of the multiple stakeholders of […]

What is strategy

Strategy, like synergy and sex, begets its legions of proclaimed experts. The Harvard Business Review calls its cartoon, Strategic Humor. Strategy can also be beguilingly easy to for an intrepid observer to call out as such. However, strategic choices, or the lack of one, are universally cited among the primary reasons for downfall of modern […]

Working at Evoc

For an accomplished and ambitious professional like you, joining Evoc may turn out be your best career decision yet. Evoc aims to be the best place to work in the communications industry, undisputed. We know what it takes. And we are more than happy changing some rules and challenging all conventions to hit our aim. […]

Introducing Evoc

The sweeping and ongoing changes in the way people gather, process and internalize information have escaped only a few. The emergence of diverse demographic groups in a country like India is equally astounding. The average urban individual, once determined and armed with an Internet-connected device, can find and decode within hours almost everything she wishes […]