Author: Michiko Morales

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11/06/2025

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Michiko Morales

If you’ve ever felt like your PR agency spends more time checking boxes than moving the business forward, you’re not alone. Many companies hire what they believe is a strategic PR partnership—only to discover they’ve ended up with a task-taker. The difference is critical: a task-taker executes deliverables, whereas a strategic partner, as the B2B tech PR agency Gabriel Marketing Group defines it, drives outcomes for your business.

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11/05/2025

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Michael Tebo

Great press doesn’t come from luck or a single announcement. It comes from having a compelling story, supporting evidence, and the right approach to sharing your B2B technology company with the world. Because once you understand how the modern media landscape works — and how journalists discover and choose stories — you can position your company to become the one everyone wants to write about.

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11/03/2025

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Michiko Morales

Life in startups and early-stage companies is a constant exercise in tradeoffs. You’re making high-stakes bets with limited runway, knowing each choice nudges your trajectory toward breakout growth… or a much harder road. Few decisions feel more existential than how to spend that next $15k per month on either a PR agency investment or additional engineering resources. Do you hire another engineer to accelerate product velocity? Or do you invest in a PR agency to accelerate market momentum? Both can be right. Both can be wrong. And evaluating the difference requires more than gut instinct or investor pressure — it requires a readiness check.

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10/30/2025

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Michael Tebo

We’re thrilled to announce we’ve joined the Brandi AI Global Agency Partnership Program, enabling us to help clients measure, optimize, and strengthen how they appear in AI-generated responses through Generative Engine Optimization strategies.

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10/29/2025

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Michiko Morales

Major business milestones — global investments, funding rounds, and breakthrough partnerships — can change a company’s trajectory in an instant. But only if the right audiences and stakeholders hear about them. Visibility without credibility is just noise. Credibility without visibility is silence. Strategic PR for market impact is what transforms big news into big outcomes. For communications leaders, founders, and growth-stage executives, the challenge is not only having a story worth telling, but ensuring it drives real-world results.

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10/23/2025

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Michael Tebo

You’ve done everything right. You invested time, creativity, and budget into building the perfect ebook—compelling design, strong research, a powerful narrative. You hit publish, shared it across your channels, sent the announcement email… and then? Silence. That’s the frustration so many marketing teams feel. The content itself is strong. The insights are valuable. But after an initial burst of downloads, it’s as if your ebook was buried alive in your own content archive—what we call the content graveyard. The truth is, your ebook didn’t fail. Your content repurposing strategy did.

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10/21/2025

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Michiko Morales

When business leaders think about visibility, they usually picture press coverage, social media engagement, and paid ads. But one of the most underrated levers of credibility and growth sits quietly behind the scenes—analyst relations (AR).

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10/16/2025

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Michael Tebo

Every founder and CEO wants to see their company in major publications like Forbes or The Wall Street Journal. It’s validation — a visible signal that you’ve made it. But too often, that headline becomes the goal instead of the outcome. If you’re wondering how to build a PR strategy that drives business growth, it’s crucial to avoid this trap from the start.

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10/10/2025

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Michiko Morales

For startup founders and marketing leaders, hearing your public relations firm ask, “Any news?” is a clear red flag. That simple question reveals a fundamental flaw: your team is reactive, not functioning as a proactive PR agency. For any company paying a significant monthly retainer, this passivity is an expensive liability that undermines brand authority. If you’re unsure whether your PR agency is earning its retainer, these 10 questions will reveal whether your agency is proactive—or just reacting.