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Ronn Torossian

Ronn Torossian

Founder & Chairman, 5W AI Communications · Publisher, Everything-PR

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About Ronn

Ronn Torossian is shaping AI — and the answers inside the chatbox.

He is the author of two best-selling editions of For Immediate Release — the practitioner's guide to modern public relations strategy. He has been an industry leader for decades. Now he's building the AI Communications era.

Torossian is the founder and chairman of 5W AI Communications, launched in 2003 — the AI Communications Firm, combining public relations, digital marketing, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and AI-visibility research for B2C and B2B clients across beauty, technology, entertainment, corporate reputation, and crisis communications. An Inc. 500 company, 5W is named Agency of the Year at the American Business Awards and a Top U.S. PR Agency by O'Dwyer's.

He was a partner and chief marketing officer of JetSmarter, the private-aviation unicorn acquired by Vista Global, parent of VistaJet.

He is the publisher of Everything-PR — thirty-plus publications of original reporting and AI-visibility research, built to be cited by the AI engines — and has guest-lectured on communications and media strategy at Harvard and other universities.

More than a third of consumers now begin product research with AI, not Google. Torossian's work is to influence the answer — inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Start product research with AI, not Google.

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Latest by Ronn Torossian

GEO for Broker-Dealers and Wirehouse Advisors
Financial Services
Mar 15, 2024

GEO for Broker-Dealers and Wirehouse Advisors

This article discusses the critical need for broker-dealers and wirehouse advisors to implement a robust GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) strategy. While wirehouses excel in generic AI searches due to their brand authority, individual advisors are often invisible for specialized queries, losing out to RIAs. The article explores why individual advisor GEO is lacking in wirehouses, the dual-stack playbook for success, and actionable steps advisors and firms can take to improve AI visibility. It highlights the consequence of inaction: top advisors being out-cited by RIAs, impacting retention and recruitment.

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What Procurement Asks AI Vendors Now
AI Communications
Mar 15, 2024

What Procurement Asks AI Vendors Now

Enterprise procurement is asking AI vendors questions that didn't exist 18 months ago. Data residency, training data provenance, hallucination rates, bias auditing, regulatory disclosure posture, vendor lock-in risk. AI companies selling to enterprise need a communications framework that anticipates the procurement questions and answers them publicly.

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