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5 Ways to Control your Message

Posted: June 18, 2013
[caption id="attachment_11386" align="alignright"]© cienpiesnf - Fotolia.com[/caption]Spreading the message about what you do is your responsibility. Don’t let someone else spin your company’s message. Cosemindspring.com gives five tips for effectively controlling the messages we send to the world.
[caption id="attachment_11386" align="alignright"]© cienpiesnf - Fotolia.com[/caption]Spreading the message about what you do is your responsibility. Don’t let someone else spin your company’s message. Cosemindspring.com gives five tips for effectively controlling the messages we send to the world.

Just because you are doing amazing work does not necessarily mean that anyone knows about it or even really understands what you do.  It’s your responsibility to tell the world about your organization, especially if we want them to get the right impression of who you are and what you do.  If you don't take the lead on spreading the word about your work, someone else will set the tone for you and, when that happens, there is no guarantee that what they are saying will be accurate or even nice.  The last thing you want to do is spend all the time and energy you could have devoted to getting the word our about all of your amazing efforts, refuting and correcting what someone else has said about you.

With that in mind, here are a few pointers on what to do to control your message:

1) Have a communications strategy.  This means that when you sit down to plan your agenda for the year, you need to factor in how you are going to communicate all those great new initiatives, in addition to keeping your ongoing work at the top of mind for your constituents

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