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The Story of a Brand

LaRue PR - Hustling Hard and Delivering Results

The Story of a Brand

Ramon Vela

Business, Entrepreneurship

5145 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In the first half of this Feature, Jessy Fofana, Founder & CEO at LaRue PR, comes on the show to talk about COVID impacts, creating unique strategies for their clients, and ultimately figuring out the best ways to adapt businesses to an ever-changing environment. With both COVID and BLM Movements, it’s more than just a PR story for Fofana, it’s a way to input “real change from the bottom up.” No matter what direction you choose to drive your company, Larue PR helps to ensure that it always remains genuine.
 
In part one, Jessy discusses: Who is Larue PR; COVID impacts: living through media; Creating strategies unique to their clients; Wording the right responses & being proactive; Working pro bono to incite change; It’s not just about the product; And so much more. 
 
Join us while Ramon Vela interviews Jessy in Part 1 of this episode and listen to her share the inside story of a brand.
 
For more on LaRue PR visit: https://www.laruepr.com/
 
 
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Recorded at Retention Science Studios, this is not your average entrepreneur or e-commerce podcast, and he's not your average host.

0:14.3

This is The Story of a Brand with your host, Ramon Vela.

0:21.3

You know, we had a lot of brands coming to us,

0:23.8

trying to figure out what to do and how to do it

0:26.7

and how to be part of the movement in a respectful way

0:32.0

without kind of, you know, seeming insincere.

0:43.0

And a huge, you know, part of the criteria for us was,

0:51.1

you know, we were interested in helping brands that really had a significant understanding of the importance. And it wasn't just to kind of change the PR story, and that

0:56.8

we're willing to invest and make real change from the bottom up, meaning, you know, look at their

1:03.3

hiring practices, look at their staffing, look at their vendor relations, and make sure that

1:08.3

there is some measure of diversity and inclusivity in how they do business and who they're working with.

1:14.6

And so, and that was sort of the advice and direction for anyone that we, you know, that we work with, that we gave them.

1:24.9

That it's got to be real change and it can't be a cursory change.

1:32.7

Hey, everyone, this is Ramon Vela, and this is another episode of the story of a brand.

1:38.9

Today, I have a wonderful entrepreneur, a company. I'm going to highlight a partner, actually. But before I do,

1:46.0

let me say a little something about my partner, Tenuity. Now, Tenuity is the largest independent

1:51.2

performance marketing agency across the Tripoli of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and beyond. They unite

1:56.6

channel expertise with cross-trial strategies to help clients identify, engage, and acquire

2:01.1

customers, then retain and reactivate them on their digital journey.

2:05.5

Their solution and search, social, Amazon, and marketplaces, email marketing, and more

2:10.2

are built on best-in-class analytics, brought to life with brilliant creative and delivered

2:15.1

by exceptional strategists.

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