Financial PR and its' Importance
Financial PR and its’ Importance
Financial PR or Financial Relations or Shareholder
Relations or Investors Relations is one of the most important functions of Corporate
PR. It primarily focuses
on PR concerning finance and investment related matters. The main
objective of Financial PR is to ensure its positive perception in the
minds of its target audience. Financial PR attempts to portray the corporate financial
state in the best possible light. Financial PR provides information mainly to business journalists
and related publics i.e. investors, stakeholders and the depositors.
Financial PR identifies the target
audience, and tailor every message to appeal to that audience. It can be a
general, nationwide or worldwide audience, but it is more often a segment of a
population. Financial PR promotes communication among target audience on
financial topics such as deposit schemes, funding; risk management; trends in banking and cash
management; the perception of the credit worthiness of the industry; and the
strengthening of relationships with institutional investors, international
funding agencies, rating agencies, investment bankers, commercial bankers and
regulatory authorities i.e. RBI, SEBI etc.
Who
are the Public of Financial PR?
Public of Financial PR is defined as the one who invests
in an organization in financial terms. Identification
of the public in specific terms is a pre-requisite for effective Financial PR.
The investing public can be divided into three categories: (1) Actual share
holders, (2) Financial opinion leaders (3) Financial journalists. So the target
public of Financial PR includes
Financial Journalist, Financial Analysts, Brokers, Bankers, Investors,
stakeholders, shareholders, depositors etc.
What should be the role of PRO in Financial PR?
The role of PRO is to build
good relations with the target media and other important public and arrange placement
of newsworthy stories about the corporate in the media to attract attention of
the target public towards a person, product, service or the corporate. PRO plays
an important role in arranging analysts meets, customer meets, employees meets,
annual general meetings, press interviews and conferences, corporate
exhibitions, production of corporate films etc.etc.etc.to build good reputation
of the corporate. In order to understand the role of a PRO in managing Financial
PR, following definitions would be helpful to understand his role better
because the definition is covering every aspect of PR.
-PR
is a deliberate, sustained and planned effort to establish and maintain mutual
understanding between an organization and its public.
As per the above definition, PR is a deliberate effort which is planned and should be sustained as well, and is not one time activity. Therefore PR is a continuous effort and its purpose is not only to establish but also maintain the mutual understanding between an organization and its public. And this whole responsibility is shouldered by the PROs and that's why they are called Perception and Image Managers of their organizations. It totally depends on a PRO to get good name to the organization he/she works for, employees who are serving, product they are selling, quality they are maintaining etc. In short, a PRO has A to Z responsibility of an organization's image and relationships. Not only to establish but also to maintain the relationships and positive image of the organization.
As per the above definition, PR is a deliberate effort which is planned and should be sustained as well, and is not one time activity. Therefore PR is a continuous effort and its purpose is not only to establish but also maintain the mutual understanding between an organization and its public. And this whole responsibility is shouldered by the PROs and that's why they are called Perception and Image Managers of their organizations. It totally depends on a PRO to get good name to the organization he/she works for, employees who are serving, product they are selling, quality they are maintaining etc. In short, a PRO has A to Z responsibility of an organization's image and relationships. Not only to establish but also to maintain the relationships and positive image of the organization.
Thank you
Suresh Gaur
Good and useful read.
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