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Becoming the Target Consumer Changed My Approach to Brand Strategy

For years, I’ve read brand briefs outlining familiar personas: the millennial parent juggling young kids, the time-strapped shopper seeking convenience without compromise, the household decision-maker balancing health and budget. They were helpful snapshots of the people we were trying to reach. ...

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Social Media, Motherhood, and the Price of Connection

I didn’t stop documenting my life. I just stopped sharing it. It started during the pandemic. The world was unraveling, the internet exploding, and suddenly every post felt like it had to be perfectly timed, worded, politicized. I work in PR. I know how to calibrate a message. But the judgment, the ...

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So, you want to get into PR? MSL pros share what it takes to thrive

Q&A: From internships to full-time roles, here’s how MSL helps students and young professionals launch careers in public relations The MSL team takes pride in opening our doors to students and emerging talent, providing them with the opportunity to shadow, learn, and experience the industry ...

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  • amyLI.jpg

    Becoming the Target Consumer Changed My Approach to Brand Strategy

    For years, I’ve read brand briefs outlining familiar personas: the millennial parent juggling young kids, the time-strapped shopper seeking convenience without compromise, the household decision-maker balancing health and budget. They were helpful snapshots of the people we were trying to reach. ...

    Continue reading
  • LAUREN.jpeg

    Social Media, Motherhood, and the Price of Connection

    I didn’t stop documenting my life. I just stopped sharing it. It started during the pandemic. The world was unraveling, the internet exploding, and suddenly every post felt like it had to be perfectly timed, worded, politicized. I work in PR. I know how to calibrate a message. But the judgment, the ...

    Continue reading
  • Interns (1).jpeg

    So, you want to get into PR? MSL pros share what it takes to thrive

    Q&A: From internships to full-time roles, here’s how MSL helps students and young professionals launch careers in public relations The MSL team takes pride in opening our doors to students and emerging talent, providing them with the opportunity to shadow, learn, and experience the industry ...

    Continue reading

11.06.25

Becoming the Target Consumer Changed My Approach to Brand Strategy

For years, I’ve read brand briefs outlining familiar personas: the millennial parent juggling young kids, the time-strapped shopper seeking convenience without compromise, the household decision-maker balancing health and budget. They were helpful snapshots of the people we were trying to reach. ...

Continue reading

09.29.25

Social Media, Motherhood, and the Price of Connection

I didn’t stop documenting my life. I just stopped sharing it. It started during the pandemic. The world was unraveling, the internet exploding, and suddenly every post felt like it had to be perfectly timed, worded, politicized. I work in PR. I know how to calibrate a message. But the judgment, the ...

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09.10.25

So, you want to get into PR? MSL pros share what it takes to thrive

Q&A: From internships to full-time roles, here’s how MSL helps students and young professionals launch careers in public relations The MSL team takes pride in opening our doors to students and emerging talent, providing them with the opportunity to shadow, learn, and experience the industry ...

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08.07.25

Learning at an F1 pace is the new reality for communications leaders. Here’s how to navigate the turns.

Bottom line: In a world of constant disruption, today’s communications leaders must learn and adapt at F1 speeds. This blog post explains how embedding a learning mindset—through clear expectations, bold leadership and purpose-driven development—empowers teams to navigate every turn. In today’s f...

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07.08.25

In the era of big AI, human writers deliver a much bigger payoff for brands. Are you surprised?

The boogeyman of modern editorial content writing is AI-generated misinformation — or even worse, downright fabrication. Who can forget the recent debacle at the Chicago Sun-Times, which published a summer reading list filled with a number of book titles that did not exist? The spectre of unmedi...

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03.21.25

Connection over Curation: How to Reach Audiences in 2025

From being “Very demure, very mindful” to revelling in a Brat summer to gushing over Moo Deng the pygmy hippo, 2024 was a year defined by unpredictable and short-lived internet trends that provided comfort and humour to overstimulated and overwhelmed consumers. For brands, that meant a never-ending ...

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