Designing a model of public relations strategies aimed at organizational branding in social networks

Today, brand has become one of the most important issues in all companies, so that no company can be considered without a brand. This issue has spread to such an extent that, in addition to politicians, some citizens are also trying to create a personal brand for themselves. Various measures can be taken to create a brand, which includes a wide range of advertising in large companies to the creation of content by citizens in social networks. This wide range can create a brand, although today the brand has become a complex and specialized science and has gone beyond a title, so that applying a brand name to a brand is considered as creating a limit for it. In this article, the role of public relations as one of the tools of brand production and promotion has been investigated, and interviews with communication professors and public relations experts from all over the world have been conducted using the grounded theory method. According to the obtained results, it was found that in addition to the main task of selling, the task of producing and promoting and stabilizing the brand is also one of the undeniable tasks of public relations. Therefore, by adopting appropriate strategies to produce, promote and stabilize the brand, public relations are able to develop organizational branding at the level of social networks.