Neuromarketing is an emerging field and applies principles from neuroscience and psychology to marketing. The aim is to use learnings from these fields to increase the effectiveness of traditional marketing tactics...

Announcing the 2018 Cole Lawson scholarship winner...

With a backlog of emails from truth-seeking journalists, missed calls from worried investors and flood of angry social media posts, banks embroiled in the Royal Commission are undeniably facing a crisis. Today, in part two of our series of articles on the Banking Royal Commission, we discuss why a crisis communication plan is so important in this kind of situation...

The Banking Royal Commission has thrown the reputations of Australia’s big banks into the spotlight. With the reputations of these organisations and their high-profile executives on the line, today we’re asking: how can they use best-practice crisis communications to weather the storm? Let’s take a look at the first of four tips to deal with a widely-publicised corporate crisis: using a spokesperson effectively...

A few weeks ago, we saw Scoot Airlines hit the headlines when an unruly passenger started attacking other passengers on-board a flight. Although situations like this are not an airline’s fault, what they do next is pivotal to preventing their reputation from being tarnished...

We're very excited to announce that the Public Relations Institute of Australia (PRIA) selected Cole Lawson as the state and national winner for the Golden Target awards, in the Community Relations category...

January is also known as International Creativity Month. This month doesn’t just mark the beginning of a new year, but also the chance to rethink old ideas and explore new solutions...

We all know the feeling when we hear our phones receive a new message or notification. Like flicking a switch, it’s become automatic to reach for our device...

We’ve all had the experience of walking into a meeting and seeing someone place their phone on their table. Often, an excuse follows. “Please excuse my phone, I’m just waiting on an urgent call to come through,” your colleague or client might say. Sometimes, you might be the one making the excuse. However, this action is more than just poor etiquette...

Campaign strategies are some of the most brilliant documents you will come across. However, the best ones must have two key elements – first, an action plan for implementing the strategy; and second, flexibility to update the strategy over time...