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Looking Ahead to Fintech Meetup 2024

Fintech Meetup has quickly become one of the most talked about conference events in the fintech space. They blew expectations out of the water with their first event last year, with over 3,000 attendees who participated in over 30,000 meetings held every 15 minutes in...

What to Know About Potential Fintech IPOs and Growth in 2024

This same time back in 2021 (almost to the day!), we penned a Bottom Line Blog post on the fintech IPO frenzy expected for that year. After a fairly bland past two years in the IPO market, we’re taking a look at some of the fintech names poised to make a splash in...

How to Build a Community Through Web3 Marketing

When I attended my first Web3 conference, I entered with caution, not fully confident about how a newcomer to the space would be approached. I’d heard nauseating stories of “crypto bros” being the next ideation of the finance bro, just with worse hair and...

5 Tips to Be a Great Public Relations Client

5 Tips to Be a Great Public Relations Client

It happens all the time – monthly, weekly, even daily. A company hires a public relations (PR) agency to help boost its brand awareness, audience engagement, and reputation. It’s straightforward and simple, right.? It’s not. Unfortunately, while the concept appears to...

CEO Brand Tools that Unlock Opportunity and Demand Results

Many CEOs and other corporate executives believe that their reputation is largely dependent upon the company they represent. The fact is that executives who actively work on promoting their own personal brand can also elevate the public's opinion of their companies. A...

Adapting Your Marketing Strategy During COVID-19

Adapting Your Marketing Strategy During COVID-19

A crisis can either make or break a marketing team’s success. In the wake of COVID-19, many businesses have reduced or cut their marketing budgets completely. However, if you want to thrive, you can not cut marketing out for long. As the world starts to open back up...

Responding to a PR Crisis: A Five Step Brand Recovery Strategy

Responding to a PR Crisis: A Five Step Brand Recovery Strategy

Every day, the headlines point to the world’s most recent crisis - the global COVID-19 pandemic. When a crisis like this occurs, there is an immediate need to communicate with customers, employees, and stakeholders. Your business operations are disrupted, and...

How technology events are pivoting in the face of COVID-19

Coronavirus is hitting the conference industry where it hurts - the wallet. Mobile World Congress was the first to go. The annual gathering of electronics manufacturers and mobile technology experts was canceled in late February. The announcement came only a couple of...

Finovate Day 2!

Image: Finovate.com Day two of Finovate Fall has left us feeling motivated and inspired! Today, we got some airtime on DM Radio, a data-management themed, weekly, one-hour live radio show broadcast on Thursdays at 3 PM Eastern / 12 PM Pacific. Look out for the podcast...

KCD PR Takes on FinovateFall 2019!

KCD PR Takes on FinovateFall 2019!

More of the KCD PR team is bi-coastal this week as we take on FinovateFall in New York! We’d like to consider ourselves Finovate regulars at this point, but the more we attend the more we look forward to seeing all the trailblazing and upcoming companies, learning...

Make the Most of Your Next Industry Trade Show

Make the Most of Your Next Industry Trade Show

The strategic importance of trade shows to business leaders cannot be overestimated. Simply put, events provide important business leads, new contacts and the latest industry trends and information. With 46% of trade show attendees holding executive or upper...

This News Release Isn’t Dead … You’re Just Doing It Wrong

Believe it or not, news releases (aka press releases) have been around for over a hundred years. As the media landscape has evolved over the last century, so have the best practices for distributing a news release. In today’s world, reporters are expected to churn out...

Disruptive Businesses are Everywhere; Here’s How to Stand Out

Disruptive Businesses are Everywhere; Here’s How to Stand Out

At KCD PR, we’re fortunate to be in the middle of business innovation. Our clients, partners and people, are disrupting traditional ways of doing business. We see it every day, and are passionate about spreading the word on new approaches and ideas in the market. But...

How Twitter Lists Lead To Stronger Media Relationships

How Twitter Lists Lead To Stronger Media Relationships

Since their launch in 2009, Twitter lists have remained one of the platform’s most valuable yet underutilized social media tools. In case you’re new to this feature, Twitter lists allow you to create public or private custom timelines, comprised of only the accounts...

Finovate’s Next Top Demo

Finovate’s Next Top Demo

When it comes to Finovate demos, it is not necessarily the technology or product that is presented that makes it best in show, but how the product is presented. So what does it really take to make it to the top? Digestible & Interactive: Agent IQ Agent IQ is focusing...

Global Fintech: What’s Hot & What’s Not

Today at FinovateSpring we heard from four analyst all-stars, who talked over what they believe to be the top fintech trends we are seeing today. First to take the stage was Michelle Evans, global head of digital consumer research at Euromonitor International. The...