{"id":501,"date":"2006-02-21T02:49:12","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T02:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2025-06-12T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:30:14","slug":"how-to-promote-a-big-bank-in-a-small-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/how-to-promote-a-big-bank-in-a-small-town\/","title":{"rendered":"How to promote a big bank in a small town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Meacham of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the company I represent is fairly large (a bank with $1 billion in assets), all of our 27 locations are in small Wisconsin markets. The largest of them is in Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems that many (nearly all!) of the public relations resources I have found are oriented to national or at least multi-state (large regional) organizations.\u00a0 How does a big fish in a little pond make a continual splash within the limits of local media and conservative community thinking?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know many PR tips can be translated to any scale, but a lot of the really good stuff (i.e. Google searching on media contacts) is of extremely limited value in these itty-bitty markets. Even blogging hasn&#8217;t really caught on here yet. I know I&#8217;m asking for the best of both worlds, but how do I bring big-city PR value to &#8220;I-know-all-my-neighbors&#8221; communities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Meacham of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin writes: &#8220;While the company I represent is fairly large (a bank with $1 billion in assets), all of our 27 locations are in small Wisconsin markets. The largest of them is in Green Bay. &#8220;It seems that many (nearly all!) of the public relations resources I have found are\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/how-to-promote-a-big-bank-in-a-small-town\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":8,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[623,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-brick-mortar","8":"tag-help-this-hound","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41719,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/41719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}